Head of Delivery

You'll be joining Bauer Media Audio (BMA), Europe's biggest commercial audio broadcaster, connecting audiences across nine markets to the music, stories and experiences they love. We are making a significant investment in a new in-house software development hub in Manchester, building innovative, business-critical solutions that will power Bauer Media's audio platform of the future. You'll be joining our growing Engineering function. Our teams design and deliver the technology that powers Bauer's products, platforms and customer experiences. You'll work closely with squad leads, product managers, UX specialists and engineering leaders, becoming part of a collaborative, supportive and ambitious group focused on building high-quality digital solutions. We care deeply about creating an environment that is diverse, welcoming and inclusive - where people can be their authentic selves and do their best work every day.

As Head of Delivery you will work across multiple high-performing, multi-disciplined software engineering squads to ensure we deliver with clarity, consistency and confidence. Operating through influence and collaboration - without direct line management - you will be a trusted connector across squads, leadership and the wider business.

The role has two core dimensions. The first is helping us carry out our planning cycle well - supporting squads to operate effectively within our squad-level delivery framework, facilitating quarterly and sprint-level planning, and ensuring risks, dependencies and progress are visible and well-managed. The second is ensuring we interface with the wider business in the right way - establishing steering groups, producing the right reports, keeping stakeholders informed and confident, and managing communications across an international organisation.

If you're someone who thrives on creating structure and clarity in complex environments, building relationships across teams, and helping good people do great work together, this is a role where you will have a real and lasting impact.

Support our planning cycle

• Help squads operate effectively within our squad-level delivery framework - supporting teams through each phase, from problem validation to scaled delivery, and ensuring gate decisions are well-prepared and well-governed.
• Work with squad leads, product managers and leadership to ensure success criteria are defined and agreed before work begins and tracked meaningfully throughout.
• Facilitate quarterly planning sessions, ensuring squads have the materials, capacity data and context they need to plan effectively.
• Facilitate sprint-level ceremonies - stand-ups, retrospectives, planning - and help teams continuously improve their delivery practice.
• Ensure risks and dependencies are captured, tracked and communicated, with clear ownership and mitigation plans in place.
• Provide clear, timely reporting on delivery progress - release burndowns, sprint burndowns, velocity and other relevant insights.

Manage our business interface

• Establish and run appropriate steering groups, ensuring the right people are involved at the right cadence to support governance and decision-making.
• Maintain an active and accurate picture of stakeholder knowledge and sentiment - proactively identifying gaps and addressing them through targeted communications and briefings.
• Manage outward communications from the team to the wider business, ensuring stakeholders understand what is being built, why, and what is coming next.
• Coordinate with international stakeholders and teams, adapting communications and governance to work effectively across geographies.
• Act as an escalation point and liaison for issues or projects that span beyond individual squads.
• Coordinate change management, testing and business readiness activities across product, engineering and operational teams.

We're interested in people who bring experience across some but not necessarily all of the following:

Delivery and planning

• Hands-on experience leading delivery across multiple teams or workstreams simultaneously, within digital or technology environments.
• Experience with agile planning cycles, gated delivery frameworks, or structured programme governance - and the confidence to facilitate these well.
• Strong forecasting and planning skills, with the ability to bring structure and clarity to complex, fast-moving programmes.
• Experience embedding delivery processes that genuinely improve how teams work, rather than adding overhead.

Stakeholder and business engagement

• A track record of managing stakeholder relationships effectively - including senior leaders - without relying on formal authority.
• Experience producing reports, running governance forums, and communicating programme status in ways that build confidence and trust.
• Comfortable working across international teams and stakeholders, adapting your approach to different contexts and cultures.

Working with and through people

• A collaborative, empathetic working style - someone who builds trust quickly and gets things done through relationships rather than hierarchy.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to adapt your register for technical teams, senior leadership and business stakeholders alike.
• Experience working in a coaching or facilitative capacity, helping teams improve rather than directing them.

Useful but not essential

• Experience in the media, audio or streaming industry.
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) at a working level.

• The chance to shape how a growing engineering organisation delivers - with real influence on ways of working from the ground up.
• A collaborative, product-led environment where delivery is seen as a discipline in its own right, not an afterthought.
• A team that values empathy, continuous improvement, and doing the right thing for the people doing the work.
• Platforms that reach millions of listeners across Europe - work that is genuinely meaningful and at real scale.
• A growing engineering organisation investing in its people, practices, and technology.

This is a permanent, full-time, hybrid role based in Manchester. You'll typically be in the office a couple of times a week to collaborate with your teams.

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe's largest Publishers. From women's and celebrities' magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France - both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people's everyday lives.

What's in it for you

• You'll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider - Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You'll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email we would love to hear from you.

Date Job Posting Last Updated: 9 Jul 2026