Digital Transformation Lead

Job Description

Overview

Do you have proven skills in identifying, implementing, and managing digital change initiatives? Do you have the commercial acumen and operational experience to make astute decisions. Can you work effectively in handling conflicting priorities? Can you balance the need for innovation at pace with organisational and regulatory governance? Or are you working in a related domain with a desire to gain experience working in change and digital transformation at practice level?

If the answer is yes to any of those questions, this could be the opportunity for you.

We are looking for an individual who can bring a project management and pragmatic mindset to digital innovation within our Asset Technology practice. Working across our four Practices: Asset Information Technology, Networks and Drainage Solutions, Utility Land Information Solutions and Biosolids; this role sits predominantly in the water industry where there are opportunities for rapid digital enhancement to help the sector reach its aims.

In a practice where there are many opportunities for solution-level and discipline-level transformation, the successful candidate will collaborate across our leadership team, soliciting requirements and needs from our technical disciplines, and overseeing development and implementation. You'll help steer the transformation strategy, capturing and quantifying the benefits of digital investments to inform resource plans and new commercial models.

You'll gain a swift appreciation for the sector's key challenges and steer efforts to solve them through innovative solutions. You'll be expected to articulately convey strategic aims and projected benefits through clear investment cases to support the ongoing transformation journey.

You will be pivotal in enabling technical best practice, knowledge sharing and innovation. It is a role that brings together your ability to connect digital solutions to client challenges, underpinned by the technical expertise that sits within the practice. You'll need to be a networker and collaborator and seek to develop strong relationships both internally and externally. You will be required to connect the dots between client need, delivery challenges, and technology-based solutions, drawing on our experts in the engineering field and technology specialists from across the organisation.

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world's most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies, with over 50,000 employees worldwide. At AtkinsRéalis, we offer more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment.

This Position is open for our Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Epsom, Glasgow, London, Peterborough and Manchester Offices.

Your role

• Working with Client Directors and Technical Discipline Leads to understand client problems and delivery challenges and opportunities, you will then interface with the digital community, including globally, to identify how digital solutions can deliver technically feasible and commercially viable solutions.
• To provide oversight and coordination of the ideation, creation, and implementation of digital solutions, following established governance and processes within the UK&I region, including the Ideas Hub and Digital Operating model.
• To promote and embed a culture of innovation within the Practice and maintain a robust framework for innovation to turn into digital tools that are mobilised and returning value to the business.
• Understand and articulate opportunities for digital solutions to deliver efficiency benefits in the delivery of work.
• Identify solutions that can be sold directly to clients alongside engineering services into our many frameworks.
• Consider the suitability of digital solutions to be taken to a broader market for revenue creation.
• Provide challenge and support at bid, mobilisation, and delivery stages of projects, to adopt more efficient ways of working to increase our competitiveness, either through differentiation, alignment with the client's digital environment, or through commercial means, leading to margin enhancement / more competitive bids.
• Chair and coordinate Digital Accelerator sessions with bid and project teams to ensure a constant cycle of iteration and innovation.
• Regular liaison with other Practices and Business Units to share learning, as well as reporting on success to the Practice Director and leadership, conveying the real-world benefits of developed solutions
• Conduct due diligence on any third-party digital solutions for evaluation and potential partnerships.
• Lead the promotion and adoption of corporate digital tools within the Practice.
• Create well-evidenced business cases to seek investment in digital solutions.
• Ensure appropriate models are in place for the development of solutions, identifying key stakeholders across the digital solution development process.
• Joining a well-established and successful Practice, you will lead on the digital transformation across regional practices and technical disciplines, ensuring our practice is at the forefront of technology-based value creation for our clients, alongside our established engineering capabilities.
• The role cuts across the entire project lifecycle, through collaboration with digital thinkers, technical discipline leads, and market teams, you will be central to enhancing work winning and delivery through the creation and integration of digital solutions.
• Collaborating with staff across the practice you will:
  • Solicit, evaluate and nurture new ideas, leaning on digital product development principles to conduct client and end user engagement, create evidence-based business cases, before aligning teams to develop solutions from minimum viable product through to production and integration.
  • Implement and enhance an established framework and process to promote solutions, cross-fertilising them across client and project teams, selling and promoting the solution to clients and delivery teams.
  • Have accountability for our portfolio of digital solutions working with the technical / product leads in the planning, promotion, delivery and financial success of each tool.
  • Work with SMEs to evaluate offerings and identify how AtkinsRéalis can use third party technology to help drive efficiencies for our clients.
  • Manage large transformation digital initiatives to help drive efficiencies in our internal delivery of AMP8 programmes of work.
  • Promote the use of our Global Digital Delivery Hub in the development and delivery of digital solutions.
  • Liaise at all levels across the Practice from early careers through to Director level, in the UK and the GTC, to ensure that 'digital' is considered in everything that we do; and work within the digital strategy of AtkinsRéalis, assisting colleagues navigate its principles and share knowledge and best practice.

About you

• You'll have a strong strategic mindset, with the ability to align client ambitions with digital solutions, driving innovation and efficiency, to deliver tangible improvements.
• You should have experience of digital implementation and benefits realisation, with a background exposure to digital product and tool development, from inception through adoption and implementation, through to support and maintenance, with demonstrable benefit for project teams and clients.
• Highly self-motivated, possessing strong enthusiasm and commitment to delivering innovative solutions.
• Influential, to bring teams and stakeholders along the digital journey.
• Able to demonstrate strong business acumen with ability to identify and deliver value-creating opportunities, ideally with a track record in successful digital tool development, integration, in a business management context.
• Excellent communicators, who are able to promote our digital solutions on the national and international stage.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis , a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.