Digital Transformation Lead

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Digital Transformation Lead to spearhead ambitious strategic initiatives. This role will involve collaborating with various departments to drive digital transformation, optimize operations, and enhance efficiency. You will be pivotal in linking strategy with execution, ensuring that technical designs meet business needs. If you are a confident leader with a strong background in digital transformation and project delivery, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Car allowance (or cash alternative)

25 days holiday

Option to buy more holiday

Additional benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in driving large scale digital transformation programmes.
• Strong technical knowledge with logical architecture creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of strategic roadmaps and technical designs.
• Guide the delivery of transformation goals and manage change.

Skills

Digital Transformation

Project Delivery

Architectural Assurance

Stakeholder Management

Technical Design Communication

Job description

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Role Title: Digital Transformation Lead (Business Architect)

Location: London, Farringdon (Hybrid)

Royal Mail delivers more than our competitors put together. Yet we have ambitious plans to grow market share both at home and globally, whilst transforming our UK operation to increase efficiency and profit. Our strategy clearly sets out these plans – and technology is pivotal to its success.

The Digital Transformation Lead is an exciting new role and will collaborate and challenge across all functions. You will drive the development of ambitious strategic roadmaps, lead on upfront business and technical design blueprints, and guide the delivery of our transformation goals. You will be the link between strategy and execution, equally comfortable discussing big picture initiatives at board level and guiding specialist teams to resolve specific challenges.

In the role you will…

1. Positively challenge and influence Commercial, Operations and HR Directors to optimise and deliver our transformation goals.
2. Operate as a digital leader within the Commercial design team, demonstrating positive influence across a range of business initiatives.
3. Develop and communicate strategic roadmaps through leadership and unification of departmental strategic design functions, covering impact to both business outcomes, benefits, risk and technical capability step-change.
4. Guide the technical and business design and implementation of initiatives and in parallel develop cohesive strategies for future years, focusing on cost saving and efficiency.
5. Direct the development and communication of initial design blueprints via Transformation and Strategic Design Authority to accelerate mobilisation and increase the chance of programme success through early planning and design.
6. Guide and assure realisation of our integrated target state, managing change and acting as the authority on strategic design decisions.
7. Develop a broad understanding of our business, systems and capabilities to make best-practice recommendations.

Key Skills & Experience

1. Experience driving large scale digital transformation programmes within a complex environment whilst influencing decision making.
2. You should be confident managing a large and varied workload. Prioritisation, multi-tasking and delegation are key.
3. Strong technical knowledge with the ability to create logical architectures to communicate technical designs to both tech teams and business/non-technical stakeholders.
4. Experience of operating architectural assurance and governance processes.
5. Experience in project delivery including analysis, design, implementation, testing and support.

What we offer you

• Car allowance (or cash alternative).
• 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy more).
• Plus, many more benefits!

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

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