Strategic Adoption Execution Lead

Join us as a Strategic Adoption Execution Lead to guide the successful implementation and adoption of new platform technologies across the organization. In this role you will develop and execute strategies that support effective user engagement, ensuring the platform is integrated seamlessly into day-to-day workflows and contributes to achieving key business outcomes. You will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders to understand varying needs, address potential issues, and continuously optimize the platform’s value. By fostering open communication, promoting user enablement, and driving continuous improvement, this role plays a critical part in maximizing the impact of technology investments.

**To be successful as a Strategic Adoption Execution Lead, you should have experience with**:

- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, build alignment, and support strategy-making through constructive dialogue and collaboration.
- Solid understanding of platform infrastructure products, including operating systems and databases, gained through remove entirely experience in technology-focused roles.

**Some other highly valued skills may include**:

- Proficient in containerization technologies, contributing to platform modernization, tech debt remediation, and migration efforts.
- Familiar with AWS products, supporting strategic cloud adoption and technical debt resolution.
- Knowledgeable in middleware technologies, enabling scalable and sustainable solution adoption.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Knutsford.

**Purpose of the role**

To support the implementation of major changes and improvements to the organisations IT service management practices by driving strategic initiatives to modernize, transform and future-proof how the bank delivers and supports technology services.

**Accountabilities**
- Establishment of KPIs to measure the success and impact of specific transformation programmes, and actively monitor KPIs to identify the ongoing effectiveness of the initiative, improvement areas with the IT service management framework, and mitigate any potential issues.
- Analysis of emerging IT service management tools and platforms to discover if they can support the banks transformation goals and future needs.
- Manage the selection and seamless implementation of new tools and platforms into the IT service management processes, while overseeing the migration of data from legacy systems, to improve system efficiency and reduce manual workload.
- Development and communication of change management strategic initiatives, visions and goals through workshops, sessions, and various communication channels to highlight the benefits and impact of modernising, transforming, and future-proofing the way the bank delivers and supports its technology services.
- Prioritisation of the bank’s initiatives based on their impact on the bank’s goals, resource availability and feasibility, and develop and monitoring a clear execution plan for each transformation project to ensure a successful implementation.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires und