Group Manager

Get the balance right - flexible working options available (Hybrid - mix between home and office)
- Support the business in Digital transformation

We are seeking a Group Manager - Digital Transformation to join our Corporate Digital Division.

**Our Company**

We fundamentally believe in and commit to diversity and inclusion. We value an individual's unique capabilities, backgrounds, experiences and characteristics. We rely on these diverse perspectives to drive innovation and collaboration, to deliver the best outcome for our customers and communities.

At Hunter Water we offer a range of employee benefits. For this position, these will include, but are not limited to:

- Additional leave benefits - including additional Public Holidays, RDOs, Community Service Leave
- Health & Wellbeing benefits - including Fitness Passport, Discounted health funds, health services and Employee Assistance Program
- 35 hour working week
- Reward and Recognition Program

**The Challenge**

The Group Manager - Digital Transformation is a key leadership role and is ultimately responsible for driving digital transformation across the organisation. This scope includes driving out new digital capabilities, process improvement and ensuring our digital technologies are evolving to meet the needs of the business.

**What you’ll do**:

- Partner with key business stakeholders to deliver digital technologies and capabilities to support a modern organisation
- Manage an Agile delivery and Change function to ensure new digital capabilities are adopted effectively, and improve the organisations overall digital maturity
- Ensure digital solutions and platforms are aligned to the organisation’s strategic direction, and business users are confident and empowered to maximise ROI from digital investment
- Embed innovation into activities as a way of testing new technologies, processes and capabilities, reducing risk to projects, and driving new ways of working
- Work closely with the Executive Manager, Digital and the management team to develop digital strategy and execute on strategic plans
- Collaborate with other Digital leaders to develop appropriate project activities and budgets, including managing business unit OPEX and CAPEX budgets
- Develop and maintain working relationships with vendors and other external parties to ensure capacity and capability can be met as the needs of the organisation change and resource demands fluctuate
- Gain a detailed understanding and operate within corporate governance frameworks and policies eg. Delegated Authorities, Procurement and Tendering Policy, Risk Management Framework
- Be accountable for the overall performance and productivity of the business unit, including people management responsibilities

**What you’ll need to be successful**:
**Essential Criteria**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field or equivalent experience
- Proven management experience driving digital change in a corporate environment with demonstrated knowledge and experience delivering digital solutions with an agile mindset
- Proven experience managing a program of works with interrelated digital projects
- Experience standing up corporate data warehouses, analytics solutions and/or web environments
- Significant experience in dealing and negotiating with customers and third-party vendors.
- Experience managing a team of data professionals in a cloud-based environment
- Significant people leadership experience

**Desirable Criteria**:

- Working in a regulated environment
- Agile Foundation Certification or Agile Practitioner
- ITIL Service Management Foundation Certification, or ITIL Practitioner
- Change management qualification and/or experience
- Cloud technologies related to data and integration (Azure, AWS etc)

**Application Steps**

To be considered for this position applicants must submit a cover letter addressing the Selection Criteria and provide a current resume.