: Senior Digital Capability Manager Strategic leadership role

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My client is the UK's largest electricity transmission and distribution business in the UK. They are looking for a Senior Digital Capability Manager.

Role: Senior Digital Capability Manager Strategic leadership role

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Wokingham

Rate: £900 - £1000 per day (umbrella)

Job Details:

In short:

Digital Director, Head of Digital, Senior Capability Manager within Digital required to join a large utilities provider and be responsible for driving change and transformation around their digital people capability. This is a strategic, leadership role requiring excellent technical knowledge. You will need to assess our current people's skillset in digital tech and drive change across the business to achieve a modern digital workplace.

This is not a Programme Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Delivery, Human Resources role.

We would expect this person to come originally from a software engineering background and have moved into something that looks like Tech Lead, Product Manager and then on to digital strategy.

The big question we need to answer in digital people capability is, 'What does a good, modern, digital workplace look like?'.

In full:

The Ways of working team is accountable for shifting the company's Digital organisation towards Agile DevSecOps ways of working. Reporting directly to the Head of Ways of working & Capability, the Capability Senior manager - Digital workforce will form part of the Ways of working Leadership team. The key objective of this role is to achieve a workforce capability that can sustain the Agile DevSecOps ways of delivering digital programs.

This role defines strategic capability development initiatives, from development through successful execution, under the guidance of senior leadership and department heads. This role will plan for constantly evolving capability of Digital workforce in DD&T to ensure that it is fit for purpose to achieve the organisational goals. This role partners and works closely with the DD&T leadership, Workforce planning, talent acquisition and People and culture team (L&D business partner, Union etc) to help drive the strategic.

This role will support the review, design, and execute improvements to organisational structure; find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them. Improve current processes and optimise organisational procedures for efficiency and productivity.

This role will require to lead teams by influencing, assist and drive communication in collaboration with communication lead to drive constant capability development and unite people across the organisation to keep them moving forward.

This role will closely collaborate with experienced digital professional within the DD&T to develop and implement a capability development framework including, role description, skills matrix etc. for digital roles. By liaising with L&D, this role will ensure that learning needs of the organisation are addressed and improved based on the evolving digital capability.

Key accountabilities:

• Serve as liaison with teams, executives, and senior leaders regarding overall capability of the digital workforce, employee well-being, and planning.
• Define and deliver programs to undertake capability assessment, gap identification and implementation plan through up/reskilling and recruitment that support shifting the skills within the organisation towards Agile DevOps.
• Ensures that the capability gaps are fed into wide appropriate processes, e.g. Succession, career path and development frameworks.
• On behalf of DD&T, lead the engagement with wide capability development, talent strategy and employee value proposition related initiatives.
• Collaborate with the P&C with new hires, including documentation and onboarding.
• In collaboration with the leaders within DD&T, P&C and L&D, develop digital capability framework including Role families, skills, proficiency levels, standardised role titles etc.
• Active collaboration with talent acquisition team to deliver job descriptions to drive standardisation, alignment to skills matrix and achieve desirable capability in the organisation.
• Proactive liaison with Leaders in the function, Resourcing Partners, HR Business Partners (HRBP) to understand requirements and facilitate effective capability development decisions.
• Identify key metrics to measure and track success of digital capability.
• Leading on the development of a culture of continuous improvement, introducing impact measured analytics to demonstrate scale of success of learning and development delivery, inform future L&D activities and demonstrate return on investment.
• Lead capability development initiatives within wider business to achieve digital fluency across organisations.
• Actively engage with the LT and HR to support the sourcing of people e.g. Graduates/Apprenticeship/critical and scarce skills.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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