Senior Head of Delivery (Engineering, Implementation & Support)

Job Description Senior Head of Delivery (Engineering, Implementation & Support)Location: Wilmslow, UK (Full time office-based)Salary: This is a senior leadership role and remuneration will reflect experience, scope and impact.About FastDoxFastDox is a B2B SaaS company serving customers globally, with operations across the UK and Canada. We build and deliver software that helps organisations run critical, document-driven processes faster and more reliably.This is a senior leadership role for someone who can lead and scale an entire delivery function spanning engineering, configuration/implementation and technical support rather than a traditional projects only delivery position. The Senior Head of Delivery has direct line management responsibility for the Head of Development, Head of Projects / Implementation and Service Desk leadership.The Senior Head of Delivery will report jointly to the Commercial Director and the CEO, working closely with both on delivery execution, commercial commitments and company-wide priorities. The Commercial Director and CEO together oversee FastDoxs commercial and product operations, client commitments and strategic direction.This role plays a critical part in ensuring that what FastDox sells, promises and positions in the market is delivered reliably and at scale.The missionOwn end-to-end delivery across Engineering, Implementation/Professional Services and Technical Support, creating: A predictable release and go-live engine. A tight operating rhythm with Commercial so what we commit to is what we deliver. A scalable, multi-disciplinary delivery function that you will shape, mature and grow over the coming years.This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of the whole function, define how it operates, and lead it into its next stage of maturity.What youll do1) Lead the delivery organisation Bring Engineering and Implementation/Professional Services together under one delivery umbrella, with close alignment to Service Desk / Technical Support. Provide senior leadership across software engineering, configuration/implementation and operational delivery. Hire, coach and develop managers and individual contributors across these disciplines. Set clear expectations and build a healthy, accountable delivery culture focused on outcomes, not bureaucracy.2) Run the operating cadence Own delivery planning, prioritisation and capacity forecasting across build + implementation (and associated support impacts). Run weekly delivery/ops rhythms (planning, risk reviews, release readiness, retrospectives/post-mortems). Create clarity on commitments, milestones, dependencies and trade-offs so teams know what good looks like.3) Bridge Commercial Delivery Act as the primary delivery counterpart to the Commercial Director, owning delivery actions, priorities and follow-ups arising from commercial commitments. Translate sales and commercial commitments into executable delivery plans (scope, timeline, resourcing, risks and assumptions). Improve commercial-to-delivery handovers and reduce scope churn and rework. Shape commercial commitments earlier in the sales cycle so FastDox sells what it can reliably deliver. Provide clear, regular delivery updates, forecasts and escalation visibility to the Commercial Director, particularly where timelines, client delivery or revenue are impacted.4) Improve engineering execution & reliability (pragmatic, not bureaucratic) Strengthen release management and release readiness. Improve quality and reliability through sensible controls (definition of done, QA gates, incident management, root-cause fixes). Reduce escaped defects and firefighting by improving the systemnot just reacting. Use data and operational metrics to continuously refine how engineering delivers.5) Scale implementation outcomes Build repeatable implementation playbooks (intake discovery configuration/integration QA go-live handover). Improve implementation cycle time, predictability and customer satisfaction. Ensure implementation feedback informs product and engineering prioritisation.6) Oversee support / service desk impact Provide leadership oversight of Service Desk / Technical Support in the context of releases and implementations. Ensure incident trends and support tickets inform product, engineering and implementation improvements. Help shape SLAs, escalation paths and run processes so customers experience a reliable, professional service post go-live.What success looks like (first 612 months) Delivery forecasts become trustworthy (fewer surprises, clearer trade-offs). Releases land predictably and calmly, with fewer high-severity incidents. Implementations become more repeatable and scalable; cycle time improves. Commercial commitments are shaped earlier, with stronger alignment and fewer escalations. Support / service desk noise from releases and implementations reduces, with clearer ownership and better root-cause fixes. The delivery function feels more cohesive: engineering, implementation and support pulling in the same direction.What were looking forThis role is not just traditional delivery or project management. Its a blend of: Senior leadership across engineering/development/support. Configuration and project implementation / professional services experience. Operational leadership and delivery governance. Service desk / technical support oversight and incident-oriented thinking.The kind of background that tends to fit Previous roles such as Head of Delivery, Delivery Director, Head of Engineering Delivery, Professional Services Director, Technical Operations or a similar hybrid technical/operational leadership position. Experience overseeing multiple disciplines (e.g. engineering + implementation/professional services + technical support). 712+ years in relevant environments, with at least 35 years in a senior leadership role owning teams and outcomes, not just individual projects.Core experience and skills Proven leadership across software engineering delivery and customer implementation / professional services (B2B SaaS strongly preferred). Strong people leadership: team building, developing managers, performance management and creating clarity in ambiguous environments. Confident stakeholder management with Commercial, Product and senior leadership, including constructively challenging commitments when needed. Comfortable with delivery mechanics: prioritisation, capacity planning, release readiness, risk management and trade-off decisions. Experience scaling a delivery organisation from reactive to predictable. Familiarity with incident management, post-mortems and operational metrics (SLAs, uptime, defect rates, cycle times, etc.). Experience with integration-heavy implementations (APIs, SSO, data migrations, complex onboarding). Able to balance pragmatism and structureintroducing just enough process to scale without slowing the business down.The opportunityYoull be the senior leader who owns and shapes the entire delivery function at FastDoxengineering delivery, implementation and supportworking closely with the Commercial Director and CEO at a pivotal point in the companys growth.If youre looking for a role where you can genuinely: Build and lead a multi-disciplinary delivery organisation Take something good and make it excellent Create the operating model, rhythms and culture that allow teams to thrivethen this is an environment where you can do your best work and have a long-term impact.

Created: 2026-01-18