Deputy Director, Digital Strategy and Portfolio

Location

Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations – Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow

About The Job
Job summary

Ofgem is Great Britain's independent energy regulator. We're at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

We're offering a 12 month, fixed-term opportunity (which may be extended) with significant scope to set strategic direction, influence outcomes, and deliver real impact across the organisation. This is a high-profile leadership role where you'll oversee digital strategy, planning and portfolio execution, shaping how digital innovation powers our regulatory mission.

You'll have the chance to lead on digital prioritisation, business planning, delivery governance and the implementation of change that truly matters. With oversight of a broad and evolving portfolio, this is a role that blends strategic vision with operational delivery, ensuring that everything we do is aligned, accountable and focused on impact.

We're looking for someone with a confident leadership style, strong strategic insight and the ability to translate complex goals into actionable change. You'll be comfortable operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, guiding high-performing teams and collaborating across organisational boundaries to achieve ambitious outcomes. You'll bring strong and demonstrable credibility in forming and enacting digital strategy. You'll have extensive experience of delivering digital exploitation and you'll have an impressive track record of shaping and leading digital portfolios at a senior, influential level. You will be bring proven experience in influencing c-suite stakeholders and this will have been refined over a range of digital roles. Finally, you will have a back catalogue of examples where you have successfully delivered digital change into organisations which extends well beyond the mechanics of delivery.

In return, you'll benefit from excellent civil service pension arrangements, generous leave entitlements and flexible working, all while helping to define the future of digital public service delivery.

Our Digital, Data and Security Services directorate has a critical purpose to drive digital strategy, prioritise impactful change and deliver portfolio leadership that advances Ofgem's mission. This is your opportunity to lead strategic transformations with national significance.

Job Description
The Deputy Director, Digital Strategy and Portfolio provides strategic leadership and operational oversight across Ofgem's portfolio of digital projects and programmes in addition to leadership of directorate secretariat and governance.

This role requires the vision needed to refresh and reimagine the Ofgem Digital Strategy with the delivery rigour to ensure that the strategic outcomes are translated into deliverable initiatives aligned with Ofgem's priorities.

The role encompasses leadership of demand management, portfolio prioritisation and management, business planning, business analysis, digital delivery and digital change management, with oversight of the end-to-end delivery of a significant and constantly changing portfolio of change initiatives.

The Deputy Director champions digital innovation, data-driven decision-making, and good practice across the portfolio, while building capability and fostering high-performing, inclusive portfolio management and delivery teams.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Proven ability to shape and articulate a coherent and cohesive Digital strategy and to drive from strategy to execution This will be at enterprise scale, covering the full range of enterprise services, including those typically associated with functions represented by a CIO, CTO, CDO and CISO (LEAD).
• Proven, extensive, track record in shaping and leading large-scale digital change activity within complex environments and organisations, driving and landing change across a range of priorities, through clear and impactful strategies, effective planning and influential engagement (LEAD)
• Strong ability to communicate and collaborate impactfully and authoritatively with a wide range of stakeholders, up to and including C-Suite and Board. You will have several substantial examples where this engagement has been required.
• Proven ability to focus on outcomes, developing meaningful critical success factors and using well-designed metrics to evaluate progress and performance. Strong track record in using data and insight to drive continuous improvement, adapting where necessary, innovating, and problem-solving.
• Experience in leading and managing multiple teams, working through others including across organisational boundaries, and supporting and coaching individuals to develop and grow in their roles.
• Sound and extensive experience in all aspects of Portfolio, Programme and Project Management, coupled with the experience of digital business change (introducing new digital services and offerings to a business to drive positive change). A formal qualification (e.g. APM, MSP), or the ability to obtaining by virtue of experience, within 6mths.

More information about the role and recruitment process can be found in the attached Role Profile and candidate pack.