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Principal Delivery Lead (Freelance)

Red Badger
CompanyRed Badger
CategoryOperations & Admin
LocationLondon
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelSenior
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted9 Jun 2026
Last verified9 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (greenhouse)
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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