Digital & Technology Governance Manager

  • Department: Digital & Technology
  • Closing date: Sunday, 12 May 2024

A vacancy has arisen for a Digital & Technology Governance Manager to join Great Portland
Estates reporting to the Director IT, Innovation and Digital Transformation.

Role and Responsibilities:

- Implementation and ownership of Digital & Technology Governance & Controls.


- Centralised management of all Technology related spend, including
development/portfolio, to help drive cost efficiency.


- Coordination and where relevant, production of periodic reporting on Digital and
Technology KPIs, including:

o Financial status
o Delivery status (projects and products)
o Risks and issues
o Operational status (Service metrics)

 

- Coordination of annual budgeting process, getting input from all areas of Digital &
Technology and producing consolidated input into Finance for review.


- Regularly review spend (capex and opex) and report on any variance to budget.


- Development and ownership of a supplier management framework, ensuring regular
performance reviews are carried out.


- Organise and chair regular supplier performance reviews, supporting relationship owners in
driving any improvement plans.


- Management of Digital and Technology supplier contracts, working with Legal and CoSec
team ensuring appropriate controls and protections in place for GPE.


- Implementation and governance of the end-to-end project delivery framework.


- Support effective handover of projects into steady state.


- Centralised risk management, ownership of a centralised risk log and ensure that projects
track risks appropriately using a consistent approach.

- Development and ongoing management of a consistent business wide prioritisation
approach to digital and technology investments

- Oversee the annual budget planning cycle across Digital & Technology, including any
capital and operational costs


- Management of Business Continuity Planning, Governance and communication.-

- Coordination of any Internal and External Audit planning, actions and reports for Digital &
Technology.

 

Please note: Due to a large volume of applicants we are unable to contact everyone personally. If you are successfully shortlisted, we will be in contact with you within 14 days. 

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