Delivery Lead - IMS
Job description
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We have an excellent contract job opportunity for Delivery Lead
Lead the delivery excellence of next-generation IMS AI products.
As the organisation accelerates the co-development of IMS AI capabilities with a key operational partner, this role ensures disciplined execution, cross-business alignment, and a high-performance delivery culture supporting the rollout of AI-enabled Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) products.
Contract - 6 months (Potential to extend)Pay - attractive daily rate through Hays associated Umbrella (Inside IR35).Location - Waterside (UB7 0GB)
Hybrid - 3 days per week on-siteTravel - frequent business travel
What You'll Do
- Drive Delivery Excellence: Oversee delivery execution across IMS product lines, ensuring scope, budget, quality, and timelines are met.
- Strengthen Co-Development Partnership: Maintain a high-trust relationship with partner AI and operational leadership teams.
- Embed Agile Ways of Working: Embed Agile practices and continuous improvement, ensuring disciplined use of tools such as Jira and roadmaps.
- Align Group Roadmaps: Maintain alignment of IMS roadmaps across operating companies, including dependencies and rollout plans.
- Enable Scaled Impact: Drive best-practice sharing and IP flow across the organisation and partner groups to accelerate value realisation.
- Lead Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Manage delivery teams across multiple products, with clear performance oversight, coaching, and structured delivery rhythms.
- Governance & Control: Ensure delivery teams operate within relevant governance, risk, and control frameworks.
- Communicate with Clarity: Provide structured, concise reporting for executives, programme forums, and cross-functional groups.
What You Bring
- Delivery Leadership: A proven track record in product, programme, or delivery leadership in complex environments (ideally AI, digital, or transformation programmes).
- Agile Expertise: Deep practical experience embedding Agile delivery at scale.
- Stakeholder Influence: Exceptional stakeholder and relationship-building skills, particularly across matrix organisations and senior leadership groups.
- Structured Problem-Solving: Consulting-level capability to operate in ambiguity, synthesise complex problems, and drive decisions.
- Operational Discipline: Strong reporting discipline with the ability to communicate clearly across executive, engineering, and frontline audiences.
Preferred Background
- Experience in AI, digital transformation, aviation MRO, or large-scale operational delivery.
- Prior experience in a leading consultancy (Strategy, Delivery, or Digital) desirable.
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Ability to influence across multiple operating companies and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Intrapreneurial mindset with strong initiative and the ability to create structure where needed.
What you need to do now
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⭐ Highlight your Agile delivery experience at scale at the top of your CV as the advert specifically mentions embedding Agile practices across IMS product lines
📊 Quantify your delivery results: 'Led 8 AI product rollouts, delivering £2.4M value within 18-month timeframes'
🛩️ Emphasise any aviation MRO or AI transformation experience as these are preferred backgrounds for this IMS role
🎯 Showcase your matrix organisation and senior stakeholder management skills as you'll be working across multiple operating companies
🤝 Demonstrate your consulting-level problem-solving abilities and experience operating in ambiguous, complex environments
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- •Led Agile transformation across 12 product teams, implementing Jira workflows and delivery rhythms that improved on-time delivery from 67% to 94%
- •Managed £3.2M AI product portfolio delivery across 4 operating companies, maintaining stakeholder alignment through structured executive reporting
- •Embedded governance frameworks for 6 digital transformation programmes, ensuring compliance while accelerating time-to-market by 23%
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Hays' acceleration of IMS AI capabilities represents exactly the complex delivery challenge I want to tackle next — which is why I'm applying for the Delivery Lead position. My background in Agile delivery at scale and stakeholder management across matrix organisations aligns perfectly with your need to embed disciplined execution while maintaining high-trust partnerships.
My background in programme management and AI product delivery has equipped me with the consulting-level problem-solving skills and operational discipline needed to drive delivery excellence across multiple IMS product lines. I have extensive experience managing cross-functional teams, implementing governance frameworks, and maintaining executive reporting standards in complex enterprise environments.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you embed Agile practices across multiple IMS product lines while maintaining delivery discipline?
- ›Describe your experience with Jira and roadmap management tools in complex delivery environments
- ›How would you align IMS roadmaps across different operating companies with varying priorities?
- ›What governance frameworks have you implemented for AI product delivery programmes?
- ›How do you ensure IP flow and best-practice sharing across partner organisations?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to influence senior stakeholders across a matrix organisation without direct authority
- ›Describe a situation where you had to drive delivery excellence under tight timelines and budget constraints
- ›Give an example of how you've built high-trust relationships with external partner teams
- ›Tell me about a time you had to operate in ambiguity and create structure where none existed
- ›Describe how you've coached and developed multi-disciplinary delivery teams
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Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you had to influence senior stakeholders across a matrix organisation without direct authority
Describe a situation where you had to drive delivery excellence under tight timelines and budget constraints