Deputy Director, Digital Strategy and Portfolio

Ofgem; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent regulatory agency in Cardiff is seeking a Digital Strategy Leader for a 12-month fixed-term position. The successful candidate will oversee digital strategy and execution, drive impactful change across the organization, and collaborate with high-performing teams. With a salary of £81,000 and extensive benefits including a generous pension scheme and hybrid working options, this is a unique opportunity to influence digital innovation in public services.

Benefits

Civil Service pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Generous holiday entitlement

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate complex goals into actionable change.
• Extensive experience in shaping and leading digital portfolios.
• Successful track record of delivering digital change.

Responsibilities

• Oversee digital strategy and execution across the organisation.
• Drive strategic transformations and impactful changes.
• Collaborate across organisational boundaries.

Skills

Leadership skills

Strategic insight

Influencing stakeholders

Digital strategy development

Project management

Education

Formal qualification in portfolio management (e.g., APM, MSP)

Job description

Overview

We're offering a 12 month, fixed-term opportunity (which may be extended) with significant scope to set strategic direction, influence outcomes, and deliver real impact across the organisation. This is a high-profile leadership role where you'll oversee digital strategy, planning and portfolio execution, shaping how digital innovation powers our regulatory mission. You'll have the chance to lead on digital prioritisation, business planning, delivery governance and the implementation of change that truly matters. With oversight of a broad and evolving portfolio, this is a role that blends strategic vision with operational delivery, ensuring that everything we do is aligned, accountable and focused on impact.

We're looking for someone with a confident leadership style, strong strategic insight and the ability to translate complex goals into actionable change. You'll be comfortable operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, guiding high-performing teams and collaborating across organisational boundaries to achieve ambitious outcomes. You'll bring strong and demonstrable credibility in forming and enacting digital strategy. You'll have extensive experience of delivering digital exploitation and you'll have an impressive track record of shaping and leading digital portfolios at a senior, influential level. You will be bring proven experience in influencing c‑suite stakeholders and this will have been refined over a range of digital roles. Finally, you will have a back catalogue of examples where you have successfully delivered digital change into organisations which extends well beyond the mechanics of delivery.

In return, you'll benefit from excellent civil service pension arrangements, generous leave entitlements and flexible working, all while helping to define the future of digital public service delivery.

Our Digital, Data and Security Services directorate has a critical purpose to drive digital strategy, prioritise impactful change and deliver portfolio leadership that advances Ofgem's mission. This is your opportunity to lead strategic transformations with national significance.

Key Competencies

• Proven ability to shape and articulate a coherent and cohesive Digital strategy and to drive from strategy to execution. This will be at enterprise scale, covering the full range of enterprise services, including those typically associated with functions represented by a CIO, CTO, CDO and CISO (LEAD).
• Proven, extensive, track record in shaping and leading large‑scale digital change activity within complex environments and organisations, driving and landing change across a range of priorities, through clear and impactful strategies, effective planning and influential engagement (LEAD).
• Strong ability to communicate and collaborate impactfully and authoritatively with a wide range of stakeholders, up to and including C‑Suite and Board. You will have several substantial examples where this engagement has been required.
• Proven ability to focus on outcomes, developing meaningful critical success factors and using well‑designed metrics to evaluate progress and performance. Strong track record in using data and insight to drive continuous improvement, adapting where necessary, innovating, and problem‑solving.
• Experience in leading and managing multiple teams, working through others including across organisational boundaries, and supporting and coaching individuals to develop and grow in their roles.
• Sound and extensive experience in all aspects of Portfolio, Programme and Project Management, coupled with the experience of digital business change (introducing new digital services and offerings to a business to drive positive change). A formal qualification (e.g. APM, MSP), or the ability to obtain one by virtue of experience, within 6 months.

Salary and Benefits

Alongside your salary of £81,000, OFGEM contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes SCS1 holiday entitlement; excellent training and development opportunities; the opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 20% attendance in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus, lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050.

Nationality Requirements

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre‑settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Equality and Diversity

Difference is part of what makes us strong. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Our Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. The Civil Service Code expects honesty and integrity and all candidates must abide by these principles. Cheating or plagiarism will be investigated and may result in withdrawal of application.