Forsyth Barnes
Head of Digital Delivery
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Role: Head of Digital Delivery – Transformation (Ref: 197581)
Location: West Midlands
Type: Hybrid with Client Travel
Salary: £100,000 - £125,000 per annum + Benefits
Overview of the role:
Looking for an exciting new challenge combining deep technology understanding and delivery?
We are looking for an experienced Head of Delivery to lead a multi-product digital transformation programme within the Energy sector. This is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of multiple digital products as part of a wider transformation initiative, with a strong focus on digitalising business processes and operational delivery.
You will be accountable for ensuring delivery excellence, managing multiple technical and development teams and driving the successful adoption of new digital products and processes across the organisation.
The role combines digital programme leadership, technical credibility, business change and stakeholder management, with a highly hands-on and delivery-focused approach.
The successful candidate will play a key role in bridging the gap between technical delivery teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that digital solutions are not only delivered effectively but are successfully adopted and embedded across the organisation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own delivery of multiple digital products as part of a wider digital transformation programme.
- Lead the digitalisation of business processes and operational delivery across the organisation.
- Act as the key bridge between technical delivery teams, development stakeholders and business leadership.
- Manage internal development stakeholders and ensure delivery remains aligned to milestone-driven plans.
- Drive strong programme governance, planning, prioritisation and delivery performance across multiple workstreams.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and translate these into effective digital solutions.
- Lead business process adoption and organisational change alongside technical product delivery.
- Identify delivery risks, issues and dependencies, taking a proactive and hands-on approach to resolving challenges.
- Provide technically informed leadership across the programme, ensuring digital products deliver meaningful business and operational outcomes.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment and accountability throughout delivery.
- Drive collaboration between technology, product, development and business teams to ensure successful end-to-end delivery.
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What We're Looking For
- Strong understanding of technology and digital delivery, combined with the ability to drive business process adoption and organisational change.
- Proven experience leading digital transformation programmes involving multiple products, platforms or technology workstreams.
- Experience managing dev and technical teams
- A stronger technical bias than a traditional transformation or programme leadership profile, with the ability to understand and challenge technical delivery.
- Strong experience working across both technical and business environments, acting as an effective bridge between the two.
- Proven ability to drive the adoption and embedding of new digital products, processes and ways of working.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to engage and influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
- A hands-on and delivery-focused approach, with the ability to operate strategically while remaining close to the detail.
- Utilities, Energy or an adjacent sector experience is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication skills and roll up your sleeves and hands-on attitude!
Full benefits package available
Please contact annabel.hotchkiss@forsythbarnes.com for more information
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