Digital Transformation Manager

Derby City Council; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Derby Homes is seeking an experienced Digital Transformation Manager to shape and deliver our digital transformation programme, ensuring technology, data and business processes support our ambition to deliver excellent services for our customers and communities.

You will work with senior leaders and external partners to drive a portfolio of improvement initiatives, modernise systems, strengthen data quality and enable efficient decision‑making across the organisation.

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

We're looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Digital Transformation Manager to help shape the future of services at Derby Homes.

This is a key role responsible for shaping and delivering our digital transformation programme, ensuring technology, data and business processes support our ambition to deliver excellent services for our customers and communities.

Working closely with senior leaders, service managers and external partners, you'll drive a portfolio of improvement initiatives, helping us modernise systems, strengthen data quality and deliver more efficient and effective ways of working. Working across the organisation, you'll help strengthen assurance, support compliance with the requirements of the Regulator of Social Housing and ensure colleagues have the information they need to make effective decisions.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape strategic change while delivering practical improvements that make a real difference to customers and colleagues. Due to the collaborative nature of the role and the need to work closely with colleagues across the organisation, this post is predominantly office-based.

You’ll have experience of delivering digital, business or service improvement projects and a passion for making things better. You’ll be an excellent communicator who can build strong relationships, influence stakeholders and deliver results.

Derby Homes has a national reputation for its excellent services which we know are down to our valued workforce. In return for their hard work we strive to be an employer of choice. We have a range of excellent terms and conditions, including flexible working, work life balance, local government pension scheme, employee health initiatives and green travel options.

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. We are also proudto have Derbyshire LGBT+ Rainbow Partnership Accreditation and encourage applications from candidates of all genders.

We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

We are a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 14 th December 2026 at midnight. Any application forms received after the closing date will not be accepted.

If you have been selected for interview you will hear from us prior to the interview date.