Roles and Responsibilities
- Act as strategic relationship holder for aligned lines of business or enabling functions, forging strong relationships, and ensuring digital and IT needs are understood and articulated in an agreed roadmap
- Build a strong understanding of business need and processes, helping to identify opportunities for improvement and digital transformation
- Be the positive voice of Digital and IT when interfacing with lines of business / enabling functions
- Work with the functional areas to ensure that business and IT budgets are aligned
- Support the business with the creation of solution concepts and business cases, working with them to prioritise appropriately
- Shape and own resulting Digital and IT projects ensuring alignment of requirements, plans and implementation activities
- Ensure business benefits and business change and training plans are appropriately understood, planned for and realised
- Work with functional areas to overcome resistance to change, and adoption of new working models enabled by digital and technology change
- Develop, deliver and manage communication, stakeholder, training engagement plans
- Manage own area of Acceptance into Service
Experience Required
Essential
- Effective Stakeholder Management across all different levels of Business from End Users through to Senior Exec Leadership
- Effective relationship builder who is able to establish realistic expectations to gain mutual support and trust from the Business
- A passion for IT/technology
- Strong Communication Skills, with ability to positively influence others and break organisation silos
- Strong writing, speaking and presenting skills
- Ability to handle ambiguity and be flexible in their approach
- Experience in engagement and management of cross functional teams
- Ability to hold a minimum of UK Baseline Clearance (BPSS
Desirable
- Experience of working with business leaders on the development of transformation and IT strategy
- Experience of Public Sector programmes and/or government projects
- Comprehends detailed technical updates and able to translate them into understandable insights for non-technical teams
- Solid Understanding of Business Readiness Activities to enable successful transition to new ways of working
- Understanding of Digital/ICT programme assurance processes and value for money assessments
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