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Strategic delivery lead

Seccl· Customer
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Hybrid (London), Hybrid (Edinburgh)£85k - £115kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Lead large, complex strategic programmes end-to-end across Seccl, collaborating with product, engineering, operations, commercial, risk, and finance, and interfacing with senior customer stakeholders to turn strategic objectives into deliverable plans.

Responsibilities

  • Own complex strategic programmes end to end, from business case and mobilisation through to launch, migration and handover
  • Build the business case, delivery plan, team and governance needed to get a programme moving
  • Lead cross-functional delivery across Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Risk, Finance and other teams
  • Drive decisions and resolve blockers, while managing risks, dependencies, scope, cost and timelines
  • Lead commercial discussions with customer firms where needed, working closely with Commercial and Legal
  • Run readiness and go/no-go decisions, then closing programmes against their original business case

Qualifications

  • Background in financial services, fintech or another regulated industry and understanding of delivering significant change
  • Experience leading large, complex programmes (e.g., major re-platforming or new market expansion)
  • Independent leadership of complex, high-stakes programmes from start to finish with accountability for delivery
  • Ability to create direction and structure where no playbook exists and solve problems as they emerge
  • Strong relationship-building and cross-team collaboration, with ability to challenge and hold people to account
  • Understanding of delivery and the commercial case including cost, value and trade-offs
  • Strong cross-functional dependency and risk management and decisive decision-making

Skills

Required:Programme managementCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:Commercial negotiation

Benefits

  • Salary of £85,000-£115,000, reviewed annually, plus a 6% employer pension contribution and life assurance
  • 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, your birthday off and paid dependant leave
  • Two volunteering days each year
  • Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
  • Secclbrate recognition programme with flexible rewards
  • One-month paid sabbatical after eight years
  • Private medical insurance with AXA Health
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • MacBook and up to £500 towards home office set-up
  • £750 annual learning budget
  • Health and wellbeing support including free therapy via Wellness Cloud and Headspace
  • Financial wellbeing benefits including Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing via Octopus Legacy
  • Perkbox benefits
  • Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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