Digital Adoption Director

Location

South East England | United Kingdom

Job description

Digital Adoption Director

Balfour Beatty have an exciting new Digital Adoption Director opportunity. As part of our digital transformation, we are harnessing our power to innovate to lead an industry shift from paper and pen to data-driven digital processes and decision making.

The Digital Adoption Director will be responsible for leading the adoption of digital technology on our site-based operations, and will work closely with business and operational leadership to ensure the technology meshes into existing, and new, operational process to achieve business outcomes and the desired digitalisation of operations.

This role is fundamental in helping our IT function face the challenge of supporting our business in adopting new digital technologies, as we grow beyond supporting only traditional IT hardware and software services.

What you'll be doing

The Digital Adoption Director will ensure our:

• Site based processes are fit for purpose and where not, challenging operational leadership to agree process appropriate for digitalisation,
• Operational leaders are bought into, and become advocates of the change, both process and technology,
• Workers are trained and engaged with the new digital technology,
• Technology gaps are identified and communicated back to technology owners,
• Appropriate control and governance is followed so measurements of benefit can be run and acted upon.
• IT function understand the support requirements of Digital Site based operations.

Who we're looking for

We are looking for an individual who will:

• Understand the variance in maturity between different operational business units and help them plan accordingly to increase their chances of successful business outcomes with the digital technology.
• Work with Business leaders including Specialist Leadership Groups (Commercial, Planning, Design etc) to understand business challenges and desired outcomes / future vision and understand where digital solutions are needed.
• Represent the depth and breadth of our current capabilities into these stakeholder groups to solicit feedback to help us improve the functionality and service of the digital solutions.
• Understand the digital technology and how it can combine to provide compelling new ways of working for our operational teams.
• Actively engage stakeholders at all levels of our organisation from direct and indirect subcontract labour to business unit MDs.
• Aggregate and summarise the business improvement strategies and disseminate the digital strategy.
• Work with the CTO Group, Business Units & IT to shape & produce a coherent set of Digital Transformational Roadmaps and Programmes aligned to achieving those said outcomes.
• Effectively lead and navigate the varying agendas and priorities to ensure that we maximise the impact of our current investments to return business benefit.
• Help input into our strategic technology priorities based on feedback from the adoption activities.

Why work for us

Balfour Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

About us

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