Senior Strategy Manager

Join our team and what we’ll accomplish together

Help drive our transformational digital journey using innovative and leading edge technologies.

Are you a hands-on technology strategy and operations professional looking to take on your next challenge? Do you pride yourself on your innate ability to bridge the gaps between technology, business and customer? We are looking for the right individual to take on a highly satisfying leadership role that will help drive operational excellence and the sourcing and retention of top-tier technology talent for a large scale software delivery group.

As a Senior Manager of Enablement Strategy, you will leverage your exceptional leadership, financial management and stakeholdering capabilities to drive operational excellence across our team. Reporting to the Director of Technology & Business Strategy – Future Friendly Technology Services, you will help define and lead critical planning and operational governance processes, and strategic employee enablement programs, improving our technical operations and realizing a best in class team culture.

A little bit about us: we are the Future Friendly Technology Services group. Our business, creating cutting-edge entertainment experiences and the next generation of smart home solutions for our customers. We are also transforming the way we deliver solutions to our customers based on the next generation of cloud-native technologies and Scaled Agile DevOps methodology.

It’s an exciting time to be a part of our mission to drive better outcomes through customer centric, state-of-the-art software platforms.

What you will do

• Define, justify, plan and manage our employee recruiting, and engagement program.
• Lead the strategic planning and management of an ~$40M/annum departmental budget, in close partnership with our finance group.
• Manage crucial group leadership team governance processes.
• Ideate and pitch innovative ideas to increase technology employee effectiveness, lower operational costs and drive more frictionless ways of working.

What you bring

• Operational Governance: experience creating and managing operational governance frameworks and processes within a large scale technology or business unit.
• Employee recruitment and engagement strategy: proven experience identifying and implementing industry leading recruitment and engagement strategies for technology teams.
• Program inception & management: proven track record of ideating and driving complex >$1M initiatives
• Financials: strong business and financial acumen with experience forecasting and managing multi-million dollar technology budgets.
• Workshopping & storytelling: proven experience working with senior stakeholders across technology and business domains to create compelling recommendations to executives.
• Great Collaborator: able to forge strong partnerships throughout the organization and influence executives and teams without direct authority.
• Mentor: experience leading and mentoring junior employees.
• Insatiable appetite for research and networking to glean new approaches and solutions.
• Ability to work independently at a senior level to manage deliverables in an environment with high levels of ambiguity.
• Advanced skills in Excel.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree with an MBA or equivalent education and experience.

Nice to Have

Join us to refine your existing skills and gain new ones in these areas:

• Experience and certification in Design Thinking or similar workshop-based solutioning techniques.
• SAFe certification and experience.
• Experience providing strategic consulting ideally with an industry recognizable consultancy.
• Telecommunications industry experience.

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