Head of Delivery - AdTech

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and champion the end-to-end AdTech delivery roadmap and the strategy underpinning it, ensuring alignment to business priorities and long-term platform evolution.
• Enhance and evolve the AdTech operating model, strengthening product-led and value-stream aligned delivery across all domains.
• Champion organisational efficiency initiatives, including cost optimisation and global workforce strategy across UK and CIEC teams.
• Maintain and continuously improve the advertising operational value stream, ensuring alignment from demand through delivery and optimisation.
• Liaising with relevant finance teams, and owning financial reporting, planning and tracking for delivery in all budgeting cycles across the department.
• Champion outcome-led roadmaps and quarterly planning cycles, ensuring delivery is aligned to measurable business and customer value.
• Enhance delivery of complex cross-platform initiatives across AdTech ecosystems, ensuring alignment to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Promote customer experience as a core strategic pillar, ensuring delivery prioritisation is driven by measurable CX improvements.
• Maintain and enhance product, CX & delivery playbooks, governance frameworks, and standardised delivery practices across AdTech.
• Champion adoption of Agile, DevOps, and scaled delivery practices to drive continuous improvement and predictability.
• Lead and develop multi-disciplinary teams across Product, Delivery, Business Analysis, CX, and Strategy functions.
• Enhance AdTech organisational design aligned to domains, squads, and value streams to improve accountability and performance.
• Act as a senior advisor to stakeholders, shaping strategic delivery decisions, investment priorities, and delivery direction.
• Champion alignment between business, product, and technology teams to ensure cohesive delivery across the organisation.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Ops to enhance scalable, data-driven and cloud-based platform capabilities.
• What you'll bring: AdTech Delivery: Proven leadership in large-scale technology and business delivery environments, from within media, advertising
• AdTech Op Model Evolution: Strong experience in maintaining and enhancing operating models and delivery frameworks in digital or media organisations Transformation Initiatives : Demonstrated ability to lead transformation and efficiency initiatives across platforms or products, including advertising or AdTech where relevant
• driving strategic financial alignment Global Collaboration: Experience managing global, cross-functional teams across multiple locations in commercially-driven environments Stakeholder Presence: Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, particularly across commercial or media-focused organisations Agile Mindset: Deep knowledge of Agile, DevOps
• scaled delivery practices in fast-paced digital, media
• AdTech contexts Cloud & Data Analytics: Experience working with cloud-based platforms, data
• analytics-driven products, ideally within advertising, media
• similar domains The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky : the perks.
• Here’s a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work We are a Disability Confident Employer
• welcome and encourage applications from all candidates.
• We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate.
• Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
• We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home.
• You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.
• Your office space Osterley Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station.
• Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations.
• There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
• On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose.
• You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
• We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky.
• It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.
• But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too.
• We embrace each other’s differences.
• We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.
• If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.
• Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check.
• And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.