This role presents a great opportunity to make your mark within a global media organisation with an audience that extends to over half of the UK adult population, a major global reach and ever-increasing membership through its online media and digital brands. With this established digital presence, they are constantly exploring new technology and innovative products to win new customers, increase engagement, improve user experience and grow revenue streams.
Following extensive business analysis and with ongoing investments, the company are restructuring their working environment to encompass a new agile, collaborative and holistic approach for future delivery of their digital brands and products. This fast-paced, reactive and innovative methodology will be the driving force behind their brand development and maximisation of revenue streams, with a user-focused approach in UX, design and quality of service.
As the Head of Technology and Business Change you will be the decision-maker, leader, representative and driver for the Technology function.
Working for the consumer media company within this organisation you will have full autonomy in building and managing your own talented team, driving its direction strategy and culture. You will get to deliver business value through your own ideas and technology implementation, with a startup mentality and in a stunning office environment.
You will work with a lean agile approach to delivery change on all scales, ensuring projects & increments are delivered to budget, time and in scope. You will represent Technology in key stakeholder meetings with business & marketing teams. You will be accountable for engaging and driving value from key external partner/ supplier relationships and for consistency of approach across the portfolio. You will lead in the understanding and use of new emerging technologies, Ecommerce solutions, systems integration and infrastructure implementations in-line with enterprise and solution architectures.
The two main strands of focus and challenge within this role:
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Business Change
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Specialism
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Managing the demand pipeline & delivery of multiple interdependent projects & small change across complex technical and fast paced business teams
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Creating strong relationships with the Commercial teams within the organisation
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Creating projects including delivery of high level cost, resource and time estimations in conjunction with the CTO, leading the business and technical teams through decisive action and problem- solving to ensure delivery is completed to time and budget
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Managing demand and system changes across the Commercial Marketing landscape in conjunction with Technology Operations and Enterprise Architecture
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Challenging and innovating ways of working through technology and customer processes to drive efficiency and supporting the overall goal of maximising growth through value driven development. Keeping up to date with innovation, technology and industry sector developments and applying this to the business and technology landscape
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Being the ‘go to’ team member for everything relating to marketing, monetisation of news & ecommerce both inside and outside of the organisation
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If this is sounding like your perfect job you are a fully-formed leader preferably within a complex matrixed business environment with multiple stakeholders and experienced in transformation and change ideally within Ecommerce/digital marketing. You are self-reliant, full of enthusiasm and have your finger on the pulse of new tech and knowledge of emerging markets and consumer needs.
You will be telling the business where they need to go and how to get there.
You will be able to identify problems and know how to get around them with a start-up mentality, fast-paced mind-set and have had sole responsibility for your own product portfolio/end to end projects. You will have some development experience under your belt (including Java, C#, C++, Oracle, SQL, SAP). You ideally have a good understanding of digital advertising technology and will have worked with in Lean Six Sigma/process improvement movement methodologies.
If you think you are the perfect fit, contact us to discuss further or apply online now.
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