Our Client:
About the role
Our client is a leading wealth management organization. They are looking for a Tech Business Manager who will be responsible supporting the management of Technology resources (money, people and time) to maximum benefit of the organization.
This is a 12-month contract role.
This role reports to the Director, Technology Architecture.
You would be involved in:
- Help to define the key capabilities, engagement models and key partners for the organisation's Technology function
- Provide input into the Target Technology Operating Model, including defining the capabilities and skills required to deliver agreed products and services
- Put in place measures to scale the function up and down through the utilisation of "flex" partners within the procurement domain
- Creating and upkeeping key Technology governance and operating model artefacts, including organisational charts, functional models, Technology policies, frameworks and standards, communication plans and any other artefacts
- workforce
- Manages current resources across staff, contingent workgroups and managed service providers and supports development of a prioritised view of future resource requirements (demand) and plans to address this (supply)
- Develops annual and rolling three-year Technology workforce plans and inputs into the Organisation's workforce management planning;
- Provides strategic and responsive advice to senior management and other stakeholders as required
- Drives and facilitates effective collaboration and communications between Technology and the rest of the organization
- Execute deep dives, audits and health checks of Technology initiatives, based on organisational priority and risk.
- Manage Technology continuous improvement processes, such as Communities of Practice (CoPs), Kaizen, Lean and Kanban implementation as appropriate.
- Coordinate financial and change management
To be successful for the role, you would ideally have:
- Be a qualified technology professional with demonstrated relevant experience across portfolio and project management, technology oversight and governance, procurement and business management;
- A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business or related field of study, or equivalent experience;
- A qualification or certification in Project Management, such as PMBOK, PRINCE2, or equivalent.
- Extensive experience in Technology oversight and governance, including undertaking health checks and audits
- Extensive experience in Project and Portfolio Management, delivery and governance;
- Intermediate/advanced excel skills, comfortable using pivot tables and V lookups
- Experience implementing continuous improvement frameworks and processes in a Technology domain;
- Experience implementing different project and BAU delivery models including, Agile, Kanban, ITIL, waterfall, iterative and hybrid models
- Experience in government governance and procurement frameworks, including the use of procurement panels and probity requirements
- Ability to improve operational efficiency, service delivery and information management across Technology;
- Expertise in portfolio, program and project delivery and governance
What's in it for you:
- Flexible working environment
- Challenging projects in pipeline
- Inclusive, supportive & collaborative small team
Competencies:
- Stakeholder management, negotiation & strong communication skills
- Comfortable with complexity & ambiguity
- Procurement Management
- Collaborative Leadership style
- Consultative approach and outcome focused
If you are seeking the next step in your career, please APPLY NOW.
For any further questions or information, please contact Rhea Paul on 0380807218 and quote job #244244
