Principal Delivery Lead (Freelance)
Red Badger
| Company | Red Badger |
| Category | Operations & Admin |
| Location | London |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 9 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Ideal start date Friday 19th June
8 week discovery moving straight into delivery phase.
Client is a High street Retailer client looking at defining and then building a software product called "Menu Management"
Looking at deep experience in discovery stage for complex software products
Facilitating discovery activities with a cross functional product team (Design / Product / Tech / UX)
Excellent client and stakeholder management skills
£day rate (Outside IR35)
Immediate Interviews
2 days / week in person working (London)
We are looking for a Principal Delivery Consultant with a strong track record of large-scale delivery experience to ensure successful delivery of programmes of work at Red Badger.
As a Principal, you are a discipline expert. You set the benchmark for quality and best practice. You are passionate about what you do and motivate those around you. You are a strong consultant who can foster positive and trusted relationships with our clients.
Red Badger is well known for Delivery and solving the most complex technical and product problems. We deliver successfully using lean and agile techniques, focusing on user value and building quality into everything we do. As a Principal Delivery Consultant you will take responsibility for the quality of delivery across a client engagement with multiple cross-functional teams, maintaining alignment with Red Badger ways of working, while empowering the Delivery Leads on each team you support to drive quality and product delivery with autonomy. You're equally comfortable providing leadership and governance across a multi-team programme as you are providing high-value consulting services to shape a client’s digital delivery strategy or run a proof-of-concept workstream for executive stakeholders.
You will be reporting into the Business Unit (Cell) Delivery Director, working closely with a cross-functional leadership team consisting of Cell MD, Delivery Director, Technology Director and Product Director and other Principal roles.
The Principal Delivery Consultant will focus on:
Successful delivery of client outcomes across multiple-team programmes
Consulting the client to define and execute a strong delivery strategy
Quality of delivery using Lean and Agile methodologies
Empowering, coaching and supporting delivery leads
Delivery Discipline Leadership
Key Responsibilities
Discipline expertise
Accountable for programme level planning and alignment, data based forecasting, reporting, and identifying and resolving organisational level risks, impediment or blockers
Accountable for delivery quality across the client engagement ensuring consistency of approach and a clear governance framework
Enabling continuous improvement and high quality outcomes through the promotion of lead agile methodologies
Driving successful project delivery, collaborating within a team of Delivery Leads
Managing project/programme finances and working with cell leadership to drive account profitability
Championing the Delivery discipline on complex digital transformation projects
Collaborative leadership
Commercial awareness and input to account planning with Cell leadership
Influence and align client organisation and badger teams to lean and agile practices
Responsible for account level delivery leadership and governance
Collaborate with the Principal Product and Technology roles to give delivery teams space and autonomy to thrive
Support shaping new sales opportunities and contracts
Client influencer
Setting and implementing a delivery strategy and framework across multiple teams for clients to solve large scale and complex problems
Aligning stakeholders across the client organisation to the delivery strategy by contextualising your decisions through influence and diplomacy
Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client t