Delivery Director

Key Responsibilities

Operationalise Client Vision & Improve Delivery Outcomes

• Partner with client and account leadership to translate vision, strategy and roadmaps into delivery plans, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure delivery approaches are fit-for-purpose across retained, project, high-volume, and “follow-the-sun” models.
• Establish and maintain regional delivery standards (brief quality, planning, prioritisation, estimation, QA, approvals, handoffs, and reporting).

Lead Account Transformation (Ways of Working + Operating Models)

• Diagnose delivery pain points and maturity.
• Design and implement account-specific operating model improvements: intake, triage, prioritisation, sprint/cadence models, SLAs, resourcing models, QA and release management.
• Lead change management: adoption plans, comms, training, stakeholder alignment, and ongoing optimisation.

Lead a Shared Services Hub

• Define the hub vision, scope (services offered), service catalogue, SLAs, and engagement model with accounts.
• Set up hub governance
• Enable cross-account load balancing to improve speed to delivery and reduce bottlenecks.
• Standardise repeatable delivery components (templates, playbooks, reusable assets, production patterns).

GenAI Enablement & Responsible Adoption

• Identify and prioritise GenAI use cases that improve delivery (e.g., versioning, localisation support, content QA, summarisation, briefing, knowledge retrieval, production acceleration).
• Partner with global and regional stakeholders to embed GenAI into workflows with proper governance.
• Build training and adoption programs so delivery and craft teams can use GenAI confidently and consistently.

New Business Solutioning (Pitches, RFPs, and Go-to-Market Delivery Design)

• Lead the delivery and operating model design for new opportunities including service model and scope definition, tooling and GenAI workflow designs, resource models, etc. (roles, capabilities, ramp plans, onboarding approach)
• Provide operational due diligence on proposed solutions: identify delivery risks, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation plans.
• Ensure estimates, timelines, and delivery commitments are realistic, transparent, and execution-ready, aligned to client expectations and internal capacity.

Regional Delivery Governance & Ownership

• Create and maintain documentation that tracks delivery status, dependencies, risks and mitigations across key engagements.
• Ensure project lifecycle management is maintained and continuously improved.
• Oversee regional capacity planning, mobility of talent, and cross-studio collaboration.
• Monitor utilisation as an indicator of planning health and scalability and address chronic under/overload patterns.
• Mentor and develop delivery leadership: coaching, capability frameworks, training paths, succession planning.

Measures of Success:

• Regional Account Health Score above 90%
• Aggregate Net Promoter Score (NPS) above 45 and Client Sat Score (CSAT) above 90
• Client Retention above 95%

Qualification & Requirements

What you need to be great in this role

• 15+ years in delivery/operations leadership roles
• 10+ years in agency environments
• Extensive experience leading multi-market, multi-disciplinary delivery models
• Proven track record operationalising strategy into scalable delivery systems and governance
• Demonstrated success in account transformation / change leadership
• Strong client leadership: trusted operator, confident communicator, escalation management
• Deep understanding of delivery tooling, workflow design, and capacity planning
• Practical understanding of GenAI applications in marketing operations and production (and governance implications)
• Comfortable operating across regions, cultures and time zones
• Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies
• Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical

The Right Fit

• Chief Operating Officer / Vice President / Head of Operations of an independent agency managing teams and complex processes, focusing on efficiency and delivery.
• Managing Director at an independent or network agency with oversight of projects, clients, and delivery processes who bring strategic and operational expertise to the table.
• Senior Delivery Director / Head of PMO / VP of Project Management at a network agency overseeing the delivery of client projects and campaigns to ensure client satisfaction.
• Global / Regional Programme Directors at a network agency or consulting firm, managing large-scale projects with strategic oversight.

Benefits

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