Digital Transformation Lead London, England
Job description
Job reference number 299151
Digital Transformation Lead - London (Hybrid) - Permanent
Salary Competitive
£5500 car allowance or £5000 cash equivalent
Full family private healthcare
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering of 27.5 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years service
Full time
Permanent
This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to attend when required our London office 2 days per week, with flexibility required, in line with business needs.
Royal Mail we’ve served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. We’re currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, and to get there, we need exceptionally talented, resilient, and driven people.
Are you an experienced design lead, with a proven track record on large scale strategic and digital transformations? A confident individual with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills who is comfortable discussing big picture initiatives at board level and guiding specialist teams to resolve specific challenges?
I have two new roles in Digital Transformation space within a growing team, I need individuals who have the energy, expertise, and ambition to lead us to the new Royal Mail. Interested? More details and how to apply can be found below.
Reporting into the Director Digital Transformation and Innovation you will act as Digital Transformation Lead to the organisation and drive development of ambitious strategic roadmaps, lead on up front business and technical design blueprints, and protect the delivery of our transformation goals.
This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to attend when required our London office 2 days per week, with flexibility required, in line with business needs.
About the role
You’ll lead development and communication of initial design blueprints via Transformation and Strategic Design Authority to accelerate mobilisation and increase the chance of programme success via clear up-front design.
Embed as a digital leader across HR, Commercial, Finance, Operations, Data, and Technology business functions, you’ll develop, design, and communicate strategic roadmaps covering impact across business outcomes, benefits, technical capability step-change, and champion the execution of these plans.
You’ll matrix manage design leads across various business function including Commercial and Technology, with influence over other areas to achieve the best outcomes for Royal Mail.
You’ll influence the reasoning and impact of your decisions to technical and business stakeholders, using the right approach for your audience. You’ll be the key player to positively challenge and influence Executive Board and their Directors to optimise and deliver our transformation.
About You
To truly excel in this role, you’ll possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:
Key Skills
- You’ll own Royal Mails digital strategy and roadmap. Support and govern delivery to efficiently realise strategic outcomes through matrix leadership of delivery teams
- You’ll be able to communicate complex technical designs to business stakeholders and non-technical audiences.
- You’ll own Royal Mails digital strategy and roadmap. Support and govern delivery to efficiently realise strategic outcomes through matrix leadership of delivery teams.
- You’ll drive best outcomes from individuals and teams, through positive influence over line management and manage a large and varied workload, to prioritise and multi-task, as well as delegate.
Experience
- Experience of leading design on large scale digital transformation
- Experience of operating architectural assurance and governance processes
- Experience in project delivery including analysis, design, implementation, testing and support
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level
Extra Benefits
- Generous holiday entitlement of 27.5 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with years completed service
- Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates
- RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
- Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
- Supportive and generous company sick pay
- Access to our Feeling First Class service, providing both mental and physical wellbeing support
- Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
- Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
- Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
- Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
- Free stamps at Christmas
- Available only to perm employees
Your career in safe hands
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.
We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.
An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.
Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.
Next Steps
Closing Date: Saturday 9th September 2023. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions and online testing. If you are successful at this stage, then a face to face interview in Farringdon, London will be arranged.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
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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