This is a career defining opportunity for a strategic, imaginative and collaborative digital leader to bring together the digital, data and technology capabilities across Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS). You will help make our organisation, and the wider Greater Manchester region, a go to destination for digitally minded professionals who care about public value and who want to shape the future.
Collectively, our organisations deliver transport, public safety, regeneration, economic development and essential public services for more than 2.8 million residents across the city region. We operate with a clear one team ethos and a shared commitment to creating a more prosperous, fairer and greener Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester is a place that does things differently. It has been a pioneer in devolution, a testbed for innovation, and a region defined by partnership, purpose and a deep belief in what can be achieved when people work together. Today, as the city region enters one of the most ambitious phases of transformation in its history, we are seeking an exceptional Group Digital, Data and Technology Director to help shape a future so this is the place for everyone to live a good life.
The Role
* The Group Digital, Data and Technology Director will shape a new unified DDaT function that spans transport, fire and rescue and the core GMCA organisation. You will work with across our organisations to create the strategy and delivery roadmap that ensures the Group has modern, people centred yet resilient digital, data and technology services. You will also encourage the adoption of solid standards around governance and architecture to support consistency, security and value for money.
* Lead digital, data and technology enabled transformation to improve outcomes across the Bee Network, Fire and wider Combined Authority. You will create a suite of digital products and services that deliver operational environments to support the mission critical 24 x 7 x 365 services on which our residents, commuters and communities depend.
* Work in partnership with stakeholders right across the Group to create a unified data and insight capability that strengthens evidence based decision making, unlocks performance improvements and supports long term planning.
* This is a highly collaborative, people-centred role meaning you will create deep relationships with senior leaders, elected members, GMCA, TfGM and GMFRS colleagues, our partners and our regulators. You will co-design digital solutions with frontline teams, ensuring that customer needs and place based priorities guide service improvement. Yet you will also have a voice regionally and nationally, ensuring that Greater Manchester continues to lead conversations on digital innovation, public service reform and system wide change.
The Candidate
* You will be an influential collaborative digital, data and technology leader with experience of roles in complex, federated environments. You will bring a clear track record of shaping and delivering digital and data strategies, leading change and transformation at scale, and embedding contemporary digital disciplines across DDaT teams.
* You will couple an understanding of complex digital operations and modern service management with cyber, financial and commercial capability. You will also be an excellent communicator who can simplify complexity, build trust and influence effectively across a disparate stakeholder landscape.
* Most importantly, you will bring energy, imagination and openness. You will be an adept advocate for, and deliverer of, change with the belief that digital has a pivotal role in helping public services work better for everyone. You will be motivated by an impact that is measured not just in cost, but in safer streets, greener travel, closer neighbourhoods, better jobs, more opportunity and lives improved.
If you would like an informal and confidential conversation about the role, please contact our advising consultant; Alex Richardson at Berwick Partners on 0161 498 3409.