Business Systems and Digital Manager

Role summary:
The Business Systems and Digital Manager will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for the development, integration, and optimisation of business systems and digital solutions. This management role is pivotal in driving digital transformation, data strategy and technology innovation across the group. Alignment of direct reports with business objectives and future growth.

Team Leadership

• Motivate and inspire the team to achieve project goals within required business deadlines
• Coach, mentor and performance manage as required to support staff development and retention
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance and innovative culture within the digital team

Digital & Technology Strategy

• Define and drive the digital technology roadmap in partnership with Senior Management
• Proactively identify technology opportunities to improve operational efficiencies and create competitive advantage
• Champion the adoption of modern tools and platforms, including low-code/no-code solutions, to enhance business processes and data-driven decision-making

Data Landscape & Analytics

• Own and evolve the organisation's data landscape, ensuring robust data architecture, governance, and accessibility
• Oversee the design and delivery of advanced dashboards, reports, and analytics using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
• Ensure data governance, security, and compliance across all digital initiatives

Systems Integration & Process Optimisation

• Analyse business processes and identify opportunities for improvement through automation and integration
• Oversee system integration projects, leveraging APIs, connectors, and web services to connect disparate systems

AI Coordination & Innovation

• Oversee and coordinate group-wide AI initiatives, including managing external AI development partners
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies into business processes, ensuring quality and relevance
• Maintain robust controls to ensure the responsible and ethical use of AI technologies within the business

Project & Change Management

• Manage end-to-end delivery of system implementations, upgrades, and digital projects
• Coordinate teams across the business to ensure successful adoption and change management
• Monitor project timelines, budgets and KPIs, ensuring delivery within scope and quality standards

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Work closely with business units to understand needs and translate them into effective digital solutions
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and deliver user training as required

General

• Responsible for ensuring professional development is maintained and identified competency requirements are undertaken in a timely manner
• Adherence to the company integrated management system
• Compliance with quality assurance, health and safety and environmental policies
• Demonstrate and promote PD&MS QHSE principles and lead by example
• Ensure unsafe activities are challenged
• Adherence to the requirements of the best practice standards recommendations and processes in the undertaking of duties, in particular, risk assessment and control, reliability and failure prevention necessary to ensure the safe design, provision and use of tools, equipment and systems
• Demonstrate and promote PD&MS values and lead by example
• Ensure direct report performance reviews are carried out within the required timescales (where applicable)

Benefits

About You

Qualifications:

• Degree qualified in a relevant subject or equivalent
• Project management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP) (preferred)

Experience / competence:

• Experience with agile, hybrid or traditional project delivery methodologies
• Experience of business process design, digital transformation and data strategy
• Experience of system integration, automation tools and cloud/SaaS solutions
• Experience of data analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) (preferred)
• Demonstrable working knowledge of PowerApps development, Power Automate flows, integration with external systems and governance frameworks
• Demonstrable working knowledge of Data modelling, transformation, Microsoft Fabric pipelines, Asure Data Lake and dashboard design (preferred)
• Demonstrable working knowledge of Custom tool development, RESTful API integration and experience with platforms like SharePoint Online and Teams (preferred)
• Experience in managing and developing others
• Excellent written and spoken English

Personal attributes:

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.

• Go the extra mile
• Empower our people
• Never get complacent
• Engage our partners
• Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit. 

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it's the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you're meant to be, with PD&MS 

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they're part of our team and their voices will be heard.  We're already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there's always more we can do to improve further.  We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status. 

We're energised by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow and far into the future. But we're also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable and sustainable ways.   

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