Delivery Lead (Communications)- Preston

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Delivery to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 3 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Preston.

We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead with a strong background in communications, stakeholder engagement and delivery management to lead the successful delivery of complex initiatives within a secure environment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders, ensuring clear and consistent communication, managing priorities and dependencies, and providing visibility of progress, risks and outcomes.

This role requires someone who can combine strong delivery leadership with excellent communication skills, particularly when working across technical, operational and senior stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects and workstreams, ensuring agreed objectives, milestones and outcomes are achieved.
• Develop and deliver effective communication and stakeholder engagement approaches across the programme.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery teams, technical specialists and wider business functions.
• Translate complex or technical information into clear, concise communications for different audiences.
• Coordinate activity across multiple teams, ensuring priorities, dependencies and responsibilities are understood.
• Provide clear reporting on delivery progress, risks, issues, dependencies and key decisions.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder sessions, governance meetings and delivery reviews.
• Identify and manage risks and issues, escalating where appropriate and driving actions through to resolution.
• Support change and transformation activity by ensuring stakeholders remain informed and engaged throughout delivery.
• Drive collaboration across teams and maintain momentum against agreed delivery plans.
• Ensure communications are timely, consistent and aligned with wider programme objectives.