Team: Enterprise Security and Platforms

Salary banding: £55,000 - £75,000

Experience: 5+ years of experience in a similar role

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Head of Productivity Technology

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Optimising Digital Workspace

Top 3 qualities for this role: Problem-solver, Collegiate, Thorough

This role in a nutshell:

You drive the product strategy for SAAS tools- focussed on colleague needs, product analytics, financial targets and external industry innovation.

You work closely with procurement and finance colleagues to optimise cost-to-serve and ensure that a backlog of training, workflow and integration development and configuration is aligned with the digital experience requirements of over 10,000 people delivering plan zero.

Key elements of the role:

• Being user focussed and translating business needs into a clear vision, epics and user stories.
• Up to date on market and industry trends
• Prioritising effectively to achieve maximum value
• Creating and maintaining product roadmap
• Aligning partners with strategic direction
• Facilitating knowledge sharing across partners

Your key outcomes will be to:

• Build a deep understanding of current and future internal stakeholder needs.
• Own the strategy for how to enable all internal stakeholders to leverage productivity capabilities.
• Define and drive the roadmap for internal tooling across the full lifecycle of digital experience.
• Identify opportunities for the highest leverage across all stakeholders.
• Collaborate across OVOTech teams, internal and external stakeholders to make build vs buy recommendations for relevant parts of our digital experience.
• Determine if and how to integrate digital experience capabilities into other internal applications as needed.

Current product portfolio.

• Google Workspace and Slack
• Microsoft Office
• Mobile device management (Mosyle and Intune)
• Remote device management (Ninja One)
• Colleague device fulfilment
• Hardware Inventory Management
• Software Inventory Management (Jira Assets)
• Other collaboration (Miro, 1Password …)
• Software purchasing

You’ll be a successful Senior Senior Platforms Automation Manager at OVO if you…

Communicate - clear and direct written and verbal communication is a must for any leader at OVO. You will be able to take technical concepts and reframe them so that different audiences can understand them.

Exercise curiosity, judgement and humility - guiding our enablement strategy will benefit from an analytical mindset, strong systems thinking and ultimately good judgement. Our culture calls on us to make wise decisions despite ambiguity. And when you inevitably make mistakes, you learn from them and share them with others so that we can all learn.

Bring tools and enablement experience - you will drive the overall digital experience strategy to meet internal demand as well as build for the right end-user experience. You will have a strong understanding of technical systems & platforms and experience building and maintaining Digital Experience tools for internal users that have a customer-centric objective.

Build culture - you will shape a positive culture and agile mindset for the cross-functional team: an inclusive environment that engages in productive debate, rewards curiosity in understanding the business problems we’re trying to solve, and reinforces accountability to outcomes.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £55,000 and £75,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
For your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home For your home Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan , plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers
For your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..