Digital Plan Culture Practices Director

Digital Planning, Culture & Practice Director

Glasgow

Salary: £88-£110K plus (up to 40% bonus, family healthcare & car allowance)

Hybrid working

Help us create a better future, quicker

This role is a leading strategic role providing direction across several key strategic areas within the ScottishPower Digital Transformation Organisation.

The Digital Planning, Culture and Practices Director will have responsibilities across ScottishPower to lead the coordination of Strategic and Annual Planning exercises, ensuring the investment in Digital Technologies is coordinated, prioritised and driven based on value.

Additionally, this role will lead the cultural transformation across ScottishPower playing a leading role in the adoption of new cultural practices and ways of working such as Agile, as well as leading the governance and coordination of ScottishPower's adoption of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

This role will play a critical role in ensuring all of the above is coordinated across all of ScottishPower's Business areas, and be the single point of coordination in to the Global Digital Transformation Teams.

You'll have oversight responsibility for a TOTEX budget of c£250 million including CAPEX and OPEX budgets, and you'll leads a multidisciplinary team of 5 internal and up to 10 external resources with responsibility for the effective change management to enable continually improving high performance and effective behaviours.

What you'll be doing

Within this role, you'll define, implement, and coordinate the UK digital planning strategy for all systems and applications in all business areas (Commercial, Networks, Generation, Renewables and Corporate areas) with the directors of the areas and the UK Digital Transformation Team.

Key initiatives will include the Implementation of the necessary mechanisms for the prioritization of digital activities in business, as well as the methodologies for valuing them, so that those solutions that provide value and efficiency are developed and are prioritized to generate benefits and savings, guaranteeing in all cases the prioritization of regulatory and security issues.

You'll define, implement and monitor the Digital Plans of the different businesses, identifying new opportunities for digitalization in business processes. Establishing the necessary actions to bring and promote Digital Culture to all business areas, with a direct impact on the efficiency of processes and the user experience in the day-to-day life of all the group s employees.

A key part of this role will be to lead the creation and direction of cross-functional groups for the best digital practices between Businesses. This will involve consolidation and monitoring of global IT and OT, Systems and Business budgets in a single repository, leading the integration of the UK's Digital Strategy into the wider Iberdrola Digital Strategy, working in close cooperation with the Global Digital Planning and Global Digital Culture & Practices leaders.

Other initiatives include, leading the transformation of ScottishPower into a Data Driven company, that is, one that uses data as the backbone of all its work and decision-making processes, turning information into the main element of value. This includes;

• Ensuring he availability of information: people or systems in the organization have all the information they need, there is no additional information that would allow them to transform their processes and that they do not have access to today.
• Identification of organizational information silos (another team has data that I would need but don t have easy access to it) or systems (databases or applications that don t communicate and should)
• Unavailable and necessary information, ideation of new ways of obtaining (IoT, etc.)
• Robustness and quality of information: Governed data, with validation rules, alerts, etc.
• Information accessibility: it is easy for users to access the information they need for their processes, or on the contrary, there are technological barriers (complicated database queries vs. Business Intelligence tools).

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience of operating in a senior management role with knowledge of Business transformation and delivery of business strategy through financial and operational goals
• Highly developed communication and collaboration skills working with various stakeholders both globally and locally and internal and external to SPW
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to influence organisation where there may be conflicting priorities
• Proven experience in finance, programme and project management, vendor management and practise management advantageous
• Experience in new technologies to enable the effectiveness of the team and minimise overheads in department operations
• Experience in coaching and mentoring staff
  

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers .