Senior Software Delivery Manager

Licensed sponsor United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 hour ago

The PureGym Group is a global gym business with a community of more than 700 gyms and over 2 million members. At PureGym, everything we do comes back to one simple idea: helping you feel good.

We're proud of our people and have a strong focus on internal progression. Championing diversity, we are committed to providing an excellent employee experience and workplace culture. As such, we are a Disability Confident Committed employer, and offer interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria for a role, and opt-in to the scheme on their application form.

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We offer

Free nationwide gym membership for you + 1
Hybrid working
A truly flexible working culture
Personal private healthcare, including digital GP
Life insurance x4
Company pension contribution
25 days annual leave, plus 1 personal day
Option to purchase additional holiday (up to 5 days)
Great learning & development resources
Enhanced maternity pay, paternity and adoption leave

The Role

Location: Remote
Type: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent
Application: 28th October 2026

We are looking for a Senior Software Delivery Manager to lead delivery on PureGym’s most complex and high-impact software initiatives, owning the full initiative lifecycle from discovery through to close with Software Engineering. You’ll act as agile coach for one or more self-organising delivery squads — building the practice, raising the standard, and progressively handing ownership to the team. You’ll set the delivery standard within the function, mentor Software Delivery Managers, and ensure cross-team initiatives are properly scoped, well-coordinated, and launched with clarity and pace.

This is a remote role, with quarterly meetings in our London Office.

You’ll be the person who keeps the most demanding work moving. That means ensuring initiatives are correctly scoped to the agreed delivery window before they reach teams, running tight discovery with the three-lead group, and holding the In Development phase to that constraint to keep us focused and predictable. You’ll own stakeholder communications throughout, keep risks and dependencies visible, and make sure launches land well.

Alongside your initiative accountability, you’ll serve as agile coach for one or more delivery squads. That means more than running ceremonies — it means building teams that understand why the practices exist and can eventually lead themselves. You know when to hold the process tight, and you know when to step back. A team that has mastered the fundamentals deserves the space to evolve them; a team that skips ceremonies it hasn’t yet understood just needs better coaching. Reading that difference, and adjusting your approach accordingly, is the job.

Beyond your own squads and initiatives, you’ll be the senior practitioner in the delivery team — shaping how the function works, mentoring Software Delivery Managers, and driving continuous improvement in how we plan, run, and close work. You’ll work closely with the Head of Software Delivery on portfolio visibility and the ongoing evolution of our delivery practice.

You’ll be responsible for

Owning the full initiative lifecycle for complex, cross-team, or high-visibility initiatives — from intake and discovery through to hypercare and close
Serving as delivery lead, facilitating the right events, reviews, and conversations at each stage to move work forward with pace and clarity
Ensuring initiatives are correctly scoped to the agreed delivery window during discovery, and holding that constraint with rigour
Posting weekly initiative updates covering progress, issues, and risks, and owning stakeholder communications throughout the lifecycle
Acting as agile coach for one or more self-organising delivery squads — running Scrum or Kanban ceremonies, facilitating standups, refinement, planning, and retrospectives.
Coaching teams to own their own practice: holding the fundamentals firmly while the team builds mastery, then progressively stepping back as they earn the ability to lead and adapt those practices themselves
Supporting agile planning and forecasting using techniques including capacity planning, magic sizing, and probabilistic forecasting
Identifying and removing blockers that slow teams down, escalating with appropriate context where needed
Acting as the senior delivery practitioner in the function — mentoring Software Delivery Managers, sharing best practice, and contributing to how delivery ways of working evolve across the team
Supporting the Head of Software Delivery on portfolio-level visibility, ensuring initiative status, risks, and dependencies are current and clear across the function
Ensuring all delivery work is accurately classified across CapEx and OpEx in line with PureGym’s financial controls and budgeting requirements

The Person

You’re an experienced delivery professional who has operated in complex, fast-moving digital environments and knows what great delivery looks like in practice. You bring structure and discipline without adding process for its own sake, and you’re equally comfortable facilitating a discovery session, coaching a retrospective, unblocking a team mid-sprint, or presenting initiative risks to a senior stakeholder.

You understand that great agile coaching isn’t about running ceremonies indefinitely — it’s about building teams that understand the principles behind the practice well enough to lead themselves. You hold the form when foundations need setting. You challenge and stretch teams once they’ve earned confidence. And you know when the greatest contribution you can make is to step back and let the team fly. That judgement — calibrated to where a team actually is, not where you’d like them to be — is what makes a great delivery manager a great agile coach as well.

You’re a natural practitioner and mentor. You raise the standard around you, share what you know freely, and take genuine ownership of outcomes — not just activity.

Qualifications & Skills

We’re looking for someone who

Has significant hands-on experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or Agile Delivery Lead in a digital product or software engineering environment
Has a deep command of agile delivery — Scrum, Kanban, ceremonies, backlog management, continuous improvement — and brings conviction and coaching ability, not just familiarity
Understands that agile coaching means reading where a team is on their journey: knowing when to teach the fundamentals with precision, when to challenge the team to experiment and adapt, and when to hand over ownership and step back
Is comfortable owning the full initiative lifecycle, including discovery, scope management, stakeholder communications, launch, and hypercare
Can manage cross-team dependencies and risks with clarity, keeping complex work moving without losing visibility
Communicates clearly and credibly with senior stakeholders, translating delivery complexity into plain language
Is proactive, outcomes-focused, and makes pragmatic decisions under ambiguity
Has experience contributing to or shaping delivery practice within a team or function
Is comfortable with probabilistic forecasting techniques such as capacity planning, magic sizing, or Monte Carlo simulation

Desirable skills & experience

Experience in a direct-to-consumer digital business (app, website, or e-commerce)
Familiarity with DORA metrics and high-performance software delivery
Exposure to big room or quarterly planning frameworks
Experience mentoring or coaching delivery professionals
Familiarity with financial accountability in a delivery context, including CapEx/OpEx classification

PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is ‘Everybody Welcome’ and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work. From a hiring standpoint, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to ensuring that our PureGym colleagues reflect the diversity of the nation as well as our millions of gym members we serve.

Please note: Qualifications and Skills represent the essential criteria for the role, which need to be met to be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. Volume of eligible applications may impact everyone being able to be offered an interview.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the advert may be withdrawn at any time. Early application is encouraged.