We're seeking a Technical Project Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of projects within a designated business domain. Working in close partnership with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architecture, Engineering, and Business colleagues, you'll drive domain projects and contribute to continuously improving delivery practices.
You'll primarily focus within your domain, managing dependencies, producing clear stakeholder reporting, and resolving issues at project level - escalating to your Programme Manager where needed. You'll flex across agile, waterfall, and hybrid approaches as context requires.
What you'll be doing:
Project Delivery Leadership
- Define delivery plans, milestones, success criteria, and execution plans aligned to user needs
- Develop business cases; create and maintain cost plans
- Manage scope, schedule, and budget; monitor progress and initiate corrective action
- Ensure adherence to agreed methodology and value tracking practices
Agile Facilitation & Scrum Practice
- Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, demos)
- Work with Product Managers to ensure epics and user stories are well-articulated and prioritised
- Track and communicate delivery progress using metrics, weekly reporting, and monthly MBR updates
- Champion iterative delivery, lean/agile practices, and continuous improvement
Delivery Ownership
- Lead end-to-end delivery for assigned projects; orchestrate value within feasibility constraints
- Lead project inceptions and ensure delivery artefacts are maintained and accessible
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Serve as primary interface for stakeholders across business, technology, product, and design
- Ensure alignment and transparency through structured communication
- Manage and resolve conflicting priorities at project level; escalate where support is needed
RAID Management & Governance
- Identify and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies for assigned projects
- Drive risk mitigation with teams; escalate to prevent risks materialising
- Collaborate with peers and Programme Managers on cross-domain dependencies
Team Leadership & Facilitation
- May matrix-manage delivery team members; build collaborative, high-trust environments
- Facilitate workshops and problem-solving sessions to unblock teams
- Ensure knowledge transfer into the domain following successful delivery
- Seek relevant resources; escalate where availability affects delivery
Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Champion iterative delivery and continuous improvement within projects and teams
- Ensure epics and stories are effectively articulated, refined, and managed
- Contribute to delivery practice maturity across the broader community
What we're looking for:
- Demonstrated experience delivering software projects in dynamic agile environments
- Experience successfully delivering projects across the full delivery lifecycle
- Working knowledge of agile/scrum frameworks and ceremonies
- Experience contributing to project governance: scope, schedule, budget, RAID, and reporting
- Experience in effective change management using appropriate tools and techniques
- Familiarity with project tracking tools (Jira, Confluence, Kanban boards)
- Able to build team trust, encourage collaboration, and facilitate problem-solving
- Clear and confident communicator with stakeholders at varying levels
- Commercial awareness and customer focus
- Positive approach to problem-solving and overcoming obstacles
- Situational awareness with ability to escalate promptly
- Understanding of software development processes and iterative delivery
The following experience is also desirable:
- Formal accreditation (PRINCE2, AgilePM, CSM, PSM)
- Experience facilitating project inceptions or discovery phases
- Familiarity with academic publishing or digital content workflows
- Experience with distributed or third-party development teams
You must have the right to work and live in India.
Closing Date: Monday 17th August 2026
What we offer in return:
- A competitive salary + bonus
- 24 days annual leave
- 4 volunteering days annually
- Day off for your birthday
- Pension contributions
- Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
- Seasonal social and charitable events
- Training and development
- Tools and equipment for remote working
If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.
Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.
We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact Laura.Dicken@tandf.co.uk