Head of Digital

1 month ago


Derby, United Kingdom Rolls-Royce Full time

**Job Description**:
**Head of Digital - Submarines**

**Full Time**

**Derby / On-Site**

**Why Rolls Royce?**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a **Head of Digital **to join the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business in Derby.

We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

As part of the IT/Digital organisations 1st Line management team, the **Head of Digital **role is an exciting opportunity to lead the digital revolution in Rolls-Royce Submarines through the strategic development and execution of digital services across the business.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

**What you will be doing**:
You will own and shape the digital strategy and transformation programme, ensuring milestones are met and any risks/opportunities are mitigated and clearly communicated.
- Continually scan the environment to identify and exploit opportunities for driving value through digital capabilities and establishing best practice.
- Overall accountability for the pipeline of new digital requests/opportunities, meeting delivery/development times, that governance requirements are adhered to, and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Develop positive working relationships across multiple stakeholder groups and influence decision making in a matrix management environment.
- Drive a continuous improvement and customer centric culture.
- Develop insight and knowledge on digital delivery, product management, and assurance for the wider organisation.
- Recruit key roles within a newly formed team with the right skills and capabilities to further the digital agenda.
- Manage, motivate, and develop a diverse team of digital professionals.

**Who we are looking for**:
At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles
- Significant experience in the governance and management of IT / Digital projects and / or programmes / portfolio of increasing complexity within a matrix management organisational structure, with competing business priorities and requirements, predominately in engineering, high hazard industrial environments, which includes significant digital enablers, and a unionised work force; plus
- ability to demonstrate a breadth of organisational understanding across a range of business and functional areas, ideally with experience including some time in a non-IT/Digital function (ie. purchasing, commercial, engineering management etc).
- Strong leadership, diplomacy, interpersonal relationship, and people management skills and ability to share the techniques and approaches that you have used in a range of collaborative and adversarial situations, both in individual and team environments and with external parties to deliver results.
- Ability to shape strategy along with a track record of executing transformation plans.
- Experience of supporting organisation / operating model design and of managing teams through periods of significant transformation.
- Ability to manage a newly formed centralised digital team (approx. 20 FTE), with a focus on capability development, strategy, portfolio, governance and building a high performing digital organisation, whilst working in collaboration with the IT teams delivering and supporting our Enterprise-wide systems and the federated digital teams within the wider Submarines business developing digital outcomes.
- In-depth knowledge of digital technologies and trends.
- Proven track record of delivering sustainable improvements through leveraging digital systems, tools and data capabilities to enhance customer value.
- The ability to influence multiple stakeholders across the organisation (all levels) to ensure that the new digital capabilities are fully exploited along with playing an active role in shaping enterprise-wide decisions.
- You will be a confident communicator with strong influencing and negotiation skills, you will have held leadership positions within large and complex organisations

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re


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