Head of Function Productivity

3 weeks ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Pearson Full time

**Head of Function Productivity**

TheHead of Productivityhas proficiency in a diverse set of technologies and tools necessary to engineer, lead implementations and drive our transformation to a modern, colleague orientated digital workplace. This includes stakeholder engagement, understanding business strategy and developing medium & long-term strategic roadmaps to redefine Pearson’s Digital Workplace platform services.

The role will require you to work, educate and influence a range of stakeholders across the business to understand their technology requirements Engineering solutions to ensure we are delivering Pearson end users with a secure and seamless experience. You will provide leadership, direction and be seen as a thought leader within the technology community.

**Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Lead Engineering designs exceeding business requirements to meet Pearson’s Collaboration and Productivity objectives.
- Provide guidance and expertise to ensure project roadmaps encompass the required controls whilst delivering the optimum colleague experience
- Own the medium-term and long-term Engineering strategy and design for Digital Workplace Services Team in conjunction with Pearson’s CISO team.
- Work collaboratively with stake holders to plan the future of Pearson’s Digital Workplace.
- Assist in managing project deliverables to meet their objectives against quality (including security), budget control, time management.
- Design and innovate processes, standardization, and progressive governance practices
- Identity areas of improvement within the IT landscape, engineering solutions and guiding the execution of those designs through successful implementation.
- Drive innovation through implementing and enhancing automated deployments approaches.
- Practice continuous learning through attending company and/or industry training.
- Harvest a culture of curiosity and challenge across the engineering community

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Engineering/Architectural knowledge and proven experience of Microsoft Azure, Office 365, M365 and Endpoint security solutions (E5).
- Extensive knowledge and experience of the M365 /O365 environment including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint/OneDrive and Viva.
- Extensive knowledge of Data centric controls including MIP/AIP/OME and data retention.
- Experience providing service using B2B and B2C solutions
- Extensive knowledge of meeting room/hybrid working solutions.
- Experience of managing mobile collaboration using MDM and MAM
- Experience of non-O365 collaboration tools such as Zoom, Slack, GSuite etc
- Knowledge/experience of Azure DevOps service.

**Core Competencies**:

- Organization skills to balance and prioritize work and multitask
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills to communicate with support personnel, customers, and Stakeholders
- Positive attitude and passion for modern mgmt, security controls & customer orientated outcomes (our colleagues)
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Bring initiative and self-motivation
- Ability to collaborate across globally dispersed teams
- Ability to handle highly confidential information with tact and discretion.
- A passion for automation and delivering change as code
- Customer and service delivery focused

**Educational & Professional Qualifications**:
**Job**: TECHNOLOGY

**Organization**: Corporate Strategy & Technology

**Schedule**: FULL\_TIME

**Req ID**: 10368

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