Delivery & Growth Lead - 12 month FTC

Role OVO-View Team: Agile Delivery Location: Hub Based - Hybrid for all Salary banding: £57,000 - £86,000 Experience: Expert Working pattern: Full-Time, 12 month fixed-term contract Reporting to: Principal Delivery & Growth Lead Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role This role in 3 words: Empowering, Delivery & Growth Top 3 qualities for this role: Strong People Leader, Adaptability, Resilience. Where you’ll work: Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life. Everyone belongs at OVO: At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us. Teamworking for the planet: Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how: We're leading, enabling, and scaling the engineering teams that build OVO's decarbonisation and green energy technology products. By improving delivery efficiency, removing blockers, and fostering developer growth, the Delivery & Growth Lead ensures the technology needed to execute Plan Zero is delivered faster and at high quality. This role in a nutshell: At OVO, the Growth and Delivery Lead plays a vital role. You'll be primarily responsible for ensuring your engineering teams deliver high-quality work efficiently and meet their objectives. A crucial part of this role is also dedicated to supporting the career development and growth of our people. You will work in close partnership with an experienced Individual Contributor (IC) who will share responsibility for development planning and coaching. This position operates within OVO's established Technology IC Growth Frameworks and actively uses principles from 'Wiring the Winning Organisation' (WtWO). The focus will be on enabling our teams systemically, simplifying processes, and amplifying feedback. Initially, you'll collaborate to lead a team of approximately 25 individuals within our Technology and Product functions. You will be instrumental in scaling this model towards a target of supporting around 35 people, all while ensuring everyone receives a high-quality, personalised development experience. Your key outcomes will be: - Ensure the efficient, high-quality delivery of product and engineering objectives within a designated scope - Success metrics: Team velocity/throughput, cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, adherence to quality standards, successful delivery of planned objectives. - Collaborating closely with your IC partner, support, influence and encourage the growth and development of individuals at Senior and below role levels with their career growth and performance. - Success metrics: Effectiveness of IC partnership model (as measured by feedback surveys, successful development plan execution), IC Growth Framework adoption, employee engagement/satisfaction scores (e.g., DevEx surveys), participation/engagement in relevant CoPs, measurable improvements from enablement initiatives, and qualitative feedback on manager's facilitation/coaching effectiveness. Your key outcomes will be: - Delivery Metrics Management and Execution: Take ownership for the timely, high-quality delivery of planned engineering work by actively participating in planning, tracking progress, and removing obstacles. Partner with Product Management, Technical Leads, and stakeholders to align priorities, define requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure smooth product delivery. Monitor and improve key delivery metrics (e.g., cycle time, deployment frequency) through trend analysis and systemic improvements. Ensure your team upholds OVO's engineering standards and processes, contributing to enhancements and proactively managing risks and escalations. - People Growth & Enablement Facilitation: In partnership with experienced Individual Contributors (ICs), facilitate OVO's IC Growth Frameworks, enabling goal-setting, fair performance discussions, identifying development opportunities, and guiding promotion readiness. Coach IC partners on developmental duties and engineers on career navigation, focusing on systemic improvements. Foster a culture of continuous learning and psychological safety, champion engineering enablement by addressing productivity blockers, apply OVO's Ways of Working, and support Communities of Practice for skill development. - Performance Management & Feedback: Conduct regular performance reviews aligned with role competencies, providing constructive, actionable feedback for growth. Implement and refine OVO's performance management processes to be fair, transparent, and reflect our values. - Individual Contributor Growth Frameworks: Own and continuously improve OVO's Individual Contributor (IC) career frameworks, ensuring clear communication, understanding, and consistent application. Collaborate with leadership to define levels, expectations, gather feedback for refinement, and drive consistency across technical roles. - Collaboration & Communication: Collaborate closely with other Growth and Delivery Leads, Engineering Leads, and People Team partners to ensure consistency and best practices across OVO's engineering teams. Effectively communicate progress, challenges, and development plans to stakeholders, advocating for your team's needs. - Day-to-day Support: Provide typical line management support for people processes such as approvals for holiday, sick leave, and expenses. - Recruitment & Onboarding (as needed): Participate in engineering recruitment, assessing skills and cultural alignment. Ensure new team members receive effective onboarding, mentorship, and support to integrate into their team and OVO's culture. You’ll be successful in this role at OVO if you have… - Proven ability in managing software engineering delivery (including planning, progress tracking, and effective stakeholder management), coupled with a strong understanding of software development lifecycles, agile methodologies, established engineering best practices, and data-informed decision-making. - Exceptional leadership and mentorship capabilities, with demonstrable experience in coaching, fostering the development of software engineers/and or product, facilitating career frameworks, and conducting performance reviews, all driven by a genuine passion for nurturing talent and high emotional intelligence. - Proven success in identifying and driving process improvements and systemic enablement within engineering teams, underpinned by strong problem-solving skills and a strong commitment to the continuous improvement of both people and people-focused growth processes. - Excellent communication, collaboration, facilitation, and influencing skills, with a natural ability to build trust and rapport with engineers at all levels, particularly effective in partnership models. - Highly adaptable, thriving in fast-paced, scaling technology environments and dynamic, complex Agile settings. - Desirable experience includes: facilitating or actively participating in Communities of Practice, managing teams with high support ratios or distributed responsibility models, training or enabling peer coaches or mentors, a technical background relevant to OVO Engineering's domain, or familiarity with project management, CI/CD, and monitoring tools used at OVO. Let’s talk about what’s in it for you: We’ll pay you between £57,000 - £86,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission. You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your health With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more For your wellbeing With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations For your home Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers For your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know. For your Belonging To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you. Oh, and one last thing... We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.