Assessment Delivery Lead

About the Role

As a trusted delivery leader, the Assessment Delivery Lead plays a critical role in representing Assessment Technical Delivery, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation by ensuring the agile and effective delivery of agreed project scopes.

With a data-driven mindset you will apply meaningful metrics across both internal and external delivery teams to ensure objectives are met. This role works across business functions to deliver a cohesive and integrated delivery service, supported by performance data and transparent reporting.

Collaborating closely with OUP's divisional product teams, product owners, and key stakeholders, you will contribute to the specification, estimation, enhancement, and implementation of market-leading digital products that align with OUP's business strategy. The goal is to ensure high quality, consistency, and a seamless experience for both internal and external users.

The Assessment Delivery Lead works to ensure the successful delivery and value realisation of the product technology investment portfolio. With a sharp focus on customer outcomes, the role drives quality assurance, budget control, engineering best practices, standards compliance, and effective supplier performance. Working in partnership with Enterprise Architecture, the Assessment Delivery Lead ensures all initiatives align with OUP's broader technology and business strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee internal and 3rd party engineering and delivery teams / resources to deliver application development, ongoing roadmap enhancements and maintenance activities to existing product systems and applications. Own the ongoing run costs of in-scope value streams.
• Partner with the Divisional Product Strategy team and other Technology and Business functions to define, develop in order to deliver on Value Stream commitments as agreed with the Product Manager.
• Work with delivery partners to ensure continuous improvement is embedded driven by data and comprehensive delivery processes.
• Ensure that Product solutions are delivered on time and on budget. Focus on quality, cost/budget, engineering rigour, standards alignment and compliance, supplier and resource selection and performance.
• Partner with the architecture team to deliver applications that move the press towards an agreed target architecture and standards
• Transition of new applications / products from Strategic Programme / Project phase into Value Stream by working closely with operational teams to plan and transition smoothly from programme/project structure into value stream.
• Work closely with the Change Management Team and Change Approval Board to ensure value stream deployments are communicated effectively and are following correct procedure.
• Drive continuous improvement across the service, underpinned by a relentless focus on improving the customer journey.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.