Technical Delivery Manager (WordPress)
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Job Summary
This is a remote position.
Job Title
Technical Delivery Manager (WordPress)
Location
Remote
Working Hours
Full-time aligned to business and operational requirements.
Salary
Dependent on level of experience
Start Date
As soon as possible
The Role
Make Me Local is looking for a highly capable Technical Delivery Manager (WordPress) to take ownership of how our websites are built delivered and scaled.
This role combines technical oversight with operational leadership. You will act as the technical authority across our WordPress delivery function setting clear standards guiding technical decision-making and ensuring websites are built to a consistently high standard across performance scalability security and SEO.
Alongside this you will lead the day-to-day operational management of the delivery teams bringing structure to planning resourcing and execution. You will drive accountability improve processes and ensure work is delivered efficiently without compromising on quality.
This is a leadership role not a coordination role. You will play a key part in defining standards improving performance and shaping how the delivery function operates as the business grows.
Make Me Local Values
At Make Me Local we look for people whose approach to work reflects our core values:
- We Focus on Real Business Results
- Smart Tech Human Thinking
- Clear Honest and Human
- We Think Like Growth Partners
- We Own the Outcome
- Weve Got Each Others Backs
Requirements
Delivery Operations & Workflow Management
- Own resource planning capacity planning and team utilisation across the delivery function
- Ensure work is prioritised scheduled and allocated effectively
- Maintain clear visibility of work in progress across delivery teams.
- Identify and address delivery bottlenecks proactively
- Help ensure deadlines and delivery standards are consistently met
- Balance workloads to support efficiency without creating burnout
Team Leadership & Performance Management
- Manage support and develop team leads across the delivery function.
- Conduct regular 1:1s performance reviews and development planning
- Drive accountability for delivery performance and quality
- Oversee holiday planning availability and team structure
- Support succession planning and long-term team growth
- Help build a culture of ownership accountability and continuous improvement
WordPress Technical Oversight & Standards
- Define and maintain WordPress development standards and best practice
- Ensure websites are built using consistent maintainable scalable and secure approaches
- Act as a technical escalation point for complex challenges
- Support team leads with technical blockers and implementation decisions.
- Guide decisions on theme architecture build approach plugin selection hosting environments and infrastructure
- Ensure consistency across frameworks deployment processes and maintenance practices
Technical SEO Oversight
- Ensure websites are developed with strong technical SEO foundations from the outset
- Embed SEO best practice into development standards including site architecture URL structure internal linking crawl-ability and indexation
- Oversee implementation of metadata canonical tags robots directives and schema markup where required
- Support strong organic performance search engine accessibility and long-term scalability
- Act as a checkpoint to reduce SEO-related technical issues before launch or deployment
Quality Control & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure work meets expected standards across delivery technical quality and SEO readiness
- Identify inefficiencies and improve processes and workflows
- Drive improvements in how websites are built deployed and maintained
- Help continuously raise standards across delivery and technical output
Reporting & Performance Tracking
- Track and report on delivery performance team utilisation and workload distribution
- Provide clear operational visibility to the Head of Product Delivery
- Use data and reporting to support resource planning process improvement and performance decisions
Skills & Competencies
Technical Skills & Experience
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Strong experience in delivery operations or project management leadership
- Proven ability to manage multiple work-streams priorities and competing demands
- Strong experience in capacity planning workload management and utilisation oversight
- Experience managing team leads or senior team members
- Strong understanding of WordPress development environments and build best practice
- Knowledge of theme structures plugin ecosystems hosting environments infrastructure and website performance optimisation
- Understanding of website security best practice and maintainable build standards
- Ability to review challenge and guide technical decisions without needing to be hands-on day to day
- Strong understanding of technical SEO within a development environment
- Knowledge of Core Web Vitals crawl-ability indexation site architecture internal linking and technical on-page factors
- Ability to ensure websites are built to support strong search performance from day one
- Ability to use data and reporting to improve operational performance
Competencies & Behaviours
We are looking for someone who:
- Is highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities in a structured process-driven way
- Takes a proactive approach and identifies issues risks and bottlenecks early
- Communicates clearly and professionally aligning people priorities and expectations
- Uses sound judgement and common sense when making decisions
- Is confident holding others accountable while supporting development and growth
- Focuses on work that delivers real commercial and operational value
- Takes ownership follows through on commitments and keeps others informed
- Is solutions-focused and able to improve systems and ways of working.
- Builds scalable processes rather than relying on reactive fixes
- Works collaboratively and builds positive productive relationships across teams
- Maintains professionalism and composure under pressure
- Shares knowledge and contributes positively to the wider team.
Benefits
Required Skills:
Delivery Operations & Workflow Management Own resource planning capacity planning and team utilisation across the delivery function Ensure work is prioritised scheduled and allocated effectively Maintain clear visibility of work in progress across delivery teams. Identify and address delivery bottlenecks proactively Help ensure deadlines and delivery standards are consistently met Balance workloads to support efficiency without creating burnout Team Leadership & Performance Management Manage support and develop team leads across the delivery function. Conduct regular 1:1s performance reviews and development planning Drive accountability for delivery performance and quality Oversee holiday planning availability and team structure Support succession planning and long-term team growth Help build a culture of ownership accountability and continuous improvement WordPress Technical Oversight & Standards Define and maintain WordPress development standards and best practice Ensure websites are built using consistent maintainable scalable and secure approaches Act as a technical escalation point for complex challenges Support team leads with technical blockers and implementation decisions. Guide decisions on theme architecture build approach plugin selection hosting environments and infrastructure Ensure consistency across frameworks deployment processes and maintenance practices Technical SEO Oversight Ensure websites are developed with strong technical SEO foundations from the outset Embed SEO best practice into development standards including site architecture URL structure internal linking crawl-ability and indexation Oversee implementation of metadata canonical tags robots directives and schema markup where required Support strong organic performance search engine accessibility and long-term scalability Act as a checkpoint to reduce SEO-related technical issues before launch or deployment Quality Control & Continuous Improvement Ensure work meets expected standards across delivery technical quality and SEO readiness Identify inefficiencies and improve processes and workflows Drive improvements in how websites are built deployed and maintained Help continuously raise standards across delivery and technical output Reporting & Performance Tracking Track and report on delivery performance team utilisation and workload distribution Provide clear operational visibility to the Head of Product Delivery Use data and reporting to support resource planning process improvement and performance decisions Skills & Competencies Technical Skills & Experience We are looking for someone who can demonstrate: Strong experience in delivery operations or project management leadership Proven ability to manage multiple work-streams priorities and competing demands Strong experience in capacity planning workload management and utilisation oversight Experience managing team leads or senior team members Strong understanding of WordPress development environments and build best practice Knowledge of theme structures plugin ecosystems hosting environments infrastructure and website performance optimisation Understanding of website security best practice and maintainable build standards Ability to review challenge and guide technical decisions without needing to be hands-on day to day Strong understanding of technical SEO within a development environment Knowledge of Core Web Vitals crawl-ability indexation site architecture internal linking and technical on-page factors Ability to ensure websites are built to support strong search performance from day one Ability to use data and reporting to improve operational performance Competencies & Behaviours We are looking for someone who: Is highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities in a structured process-driven way Takes a proactive approach and identifies issues risks and bottlenecks early Communicates clearly and professionally aligning people priorities and expectations Uses sound judgement and common sense when making decisions Is confident holding others accountable while supporting development and growth Focuses on work that delivers real commercial and operational value Takes ownership follows through on commitments and keeps others informed Is solutions-focused and able to improve systems and ways of working. Builds scalable processes rather than relying on reactive fixes Works collaboratively and builds positive productive relationships across teams Maintains professionalism and composure under pressure Shares knowledge and contributes positively to the wider team.
