Technology Platforms Strategy & Innovation Director

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What does that mean for you Youll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere and small enough to get you there sooner. Youll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. Youll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the development of forward-looking platform strategies by integrating industry trends emerging technologies and business priorities into a coherent direction.
• Provide independent architectural oversight across end user edge cloud and network platforms to ensure consistency scalability and resilience.
• Partner with digital cyber and operational teams to shape technology solutions early in the lifecycle improving design quality and reducing downstream risk.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear commercially relevant narratives that support executive understanding and informed decision-making.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with vendors partners and industry networks to bring external innovation and insights into the organisation.
• Influence cross-platform alignment by ensuring initiatives are coherent interoperable and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Produce high-quality strategic artefacts including technology strategies options analyses and investment cases to support leadership forums.
• Enable stronger risk awareness and mitigation by applying architectural judgement and challenge across technology and resilience initiatives.

The Technology Strategy & Innovation Lead is a senior leadership role within the Technology Platforms organisation created to add critical technologist capacity strategic depth and architectural oversight to the leadership team.

This role does not own platform delivery. Instead it provides senior technical leadership early-stage engagement and strategic orchestration across Technology Platforms Cyber Digital and Supply Chain working earlier in the lifecycle to shape direction influence design and improve outcomes.

The role exists to ensure Technology Platforms has:

• A stronger seat at the enterprise table
• Earlier higher-quality engagement in Digital and Supply Chain-led initiatives
• Clear credible technology narratives communicated in the right language for executive and business audiences
• Strong awareness of industry trends emerging technologies and vendor innovation
• Senior architectural oversight across EUC Edge Cloud and Network
• Architectural oversight of risks and mitigation from a technology platforms perspective
• Senior input into discussions relating to resilience engineering and business continuity planning

Role Specific Accountabilities:

Strategic Technology Leadership

• Act as a senior technologist and strategic partner within the Technology Platforms Leadership Team complementing platform owners by focusing on direction coherence and future-readiness.
• Provide enterprise-level architectural and technology oversight across End User Edge Cloud and Network platforms (distinct from formal Enterprise Architecture).
• Bridge the gap between whats possible and whats operationally sustainable ensuring ambition is grounded in operational reality.

Early Engagement & Business Partnership

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