Job description
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Delivery Lead to join our growing global IT team and help drive meaningful transformation across our business. You’ll play a hands-on role supporting high-impact integration projects, enabling scalable, cloud-first solutions, and ensuring delivery is structured, trackable, and well-governed. This is a real-world opportunity to own delivery plans across a critical workstream — collaborating with global teams and making a visible difference to how we work.
If you want to work somewhere where your ideas matter, where you’re trusted to get things done, and where change is embraced — we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll do:
- Own and coordinate end-to-end delivery plans across 15+ IT initiatives, with an initial focus on UK-based integration work.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and drive team alignment across product, engineering, and business teams.
- Structure and manage delivery backlogs and progress using JIRA, ensuring transparency, pace, and accountability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define scope, timelines, and risks — then drive delivery against those expectations.
- Support continuous improvement and coach delivery maturity across global teams, with a focus on removing blockers and enabling teams to thrive.
Must Have Skills and Experience:
- Hands-on experience managing delivery using JIRA — we’re looking for someone who can be our JIRA expert.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
- Proven ability to coordinate across technical and non-technical teams, with clear, confident communication.
- Experience structuring epics and user stories, and running Agile delivery ceremonies.
- Organisational excellence — you’ll be the person bringing clarity, structure and pace to complex delivery work.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with B2B platforms like Ariba, Coupa or integration tooling.
- Familiarity with wholesale, supply chain or manufacturing environments.
- Agile or project management certification (e.g. Scrum, Prince2, PMP).
Interview Process:
- Intro call with our Talent Team (30 Mins)
- 1st stage interview with the hiring manager + IT leadership over MS Teams (60 Mins)
- 2nd stage interview with senior delivery peers over MS Teams (60 Mins)
- Take-home delivery challenge to assess planning, clarity, and communication
Benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- Remote-first working environment
- Flexible hours built around core team collaboration
- 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays
- Company Pension Scheme
- Access to Champion Health, our Employee Wellbeing Platform
About Us
CEF (City Electrical Factors) was founded in 1951 in the UK and has grown to become the UK’s leading electrical wholesaler, with over 390 branches nationwide. In 1983, our North American arm, City Electric Supply (CES), was born — and together we’ve built a global presence supporting customers across the UK, Ireland, Spain, Holland, Australia, the USA and Canada.
Our IT team is at the heart of our future. We are modernising our systems, embracing cloud and serverless technology, and exploring how AI can enhance how we operate — but we’re doing it our way: with care, curiosity, collaboration, and a genuine drive to deliver value.
We don’t believe in transformation for the sake of it. Every line of code, every product, every release — it all serves the goal of making life easier for our teams and our customers.
This is a place where your work matters. Where you’re empowered to challenge, build, and improve. And where we’re open to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and people who want to get stuck in.
