Head Of Digital Products

**Head of Digital Products & Innovation**:

- Location: Perth Office - CBD, WA, AU
- 31 Dec 2024

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary leader with a passion for driving innovation, delivering results, and transforming challenges into opportunities. As the **Head of Digital Products and Innovation**, you will play a pivotal role in reshaping our digital landscape, fostering a customer-first culture, and enabling the delivery of technology solutions that meet the evolving business demands.

This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, where you will lead a high-performing team to deliver value-driven business outcomes across our digital product streams. Your leadership will prioritise innovation, collaboration, and excellence, positioning our organization to execute against our strategic objectives.

As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you'll contribute to shaping the organisation's strategic direction and culture, championing our values through fostering a safe and caring and progressive environment.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Leadership**
- Drive the successful delivery of the Digital Products portfolio to enable critical organizational capabilities.
- Inspire and lead teams to embrace innovative approaches, leveraging emerging technologies to deliver transformative outcomes.
- Create a culture of accountability, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
- Enable transparency and collaboration to ensure sustainable solutions are implemented.

**Strategy**
- Define and execute strategies that align digital product streams with organizational priorities, efficiencies, and growth objectives.
- Ensure financial performance supports long-term strategic goals while enabling agility and responsiveness.

**Product Management**
- Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of digital products, from ideation to delivery, ensuring they meet business expectations.
- Establish performance metrics, streamlined processes, and governance frameworks to maximize efficiency and impact.
- Proactively manage interdependencies across product streams and supporting services.
- Champion change and new ways of working, ensuring continuous embedment of the delivery model.

**Planning & Resourcing**
- Align resources effectively with delivery priorities, optimising workforce planning to achieve excellence in execution.
- Maintain robust delivery governance, ensuring transparency, accountability, and control across products and services.
- Maintain the 10yr business outlook for the Digital Products and Innovation function, aligned to the prioritisation framework.

**Stakeholder Engagement**
- Build and sustain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, aligning goals, securing buy-in, and driving collaboration.
- Lead change management efforts to facilitate the adoption of new strategies, ensuring engagement and success across diverse teams.

**What We're Looking For**:

- Deep expertise in delivering technology solutions across IT and OT environments, gained through hands on experience both in strategic and senior leadership roles.
- Proven track record of driving innovation, leading large-scale product development, and fostering impactful stakeholder partnerships.
- Experience in planning and executing strategies, as well as managing complex portfolios.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement various delivery models, including insourced, outsourced, and DevOps frameworks.
- A growth mindset, driven by a passion for transforming the status quo into opportunities for meaningful change.
- Inspirational leadership qualities that empower teams, embrace challenges, and deliver measurable value.
- Most importantly, you should be passionate about your work and excel in an environment filled with both challenges and opportunities.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

- Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
- Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
- The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
- Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
- An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
- An innovative team culture that's enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
- Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office, perfect for cyclists.
- On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.

This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact in the Energy sector undergoing rapid transfo