Digital Service Lead

Job Title: Digital Service Lead
Location: Aberdeen/Hybrid (4 days per week onsite)
Contract Duration: 6 months initially
Daily Rate: £740/day (Umbrella)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35

The Role

• Take prioritised demand from the digital front door and define it as deliverable work scope, outcome, business owner, cost and timeline.
• Plan and run delivery, whether executed by ICS, a supplier or internally, owning milestones, dependencies and critical path through to acceptance.
• Manage supplier and ICS delivery against agreed scope, cost and timescale, including change control, acceptance criteria and sign-off.
• Track delivery against estimate, and evidence where the ICS interface constrains it, to inform the target IT operating model and the separation case.
• Provide delivery status, risks and spend into the portfolio reporting to the CDIO and the Digital Investment Governance Committee.
• Establish delivery standards and templates proportionate to a small organisation, covering initiation, stage gates, reporting and closure.
• Transition delivered work into business ownership and support, capture benefits and lessons learned, and hand over a running delivery function to the permanent team.

Essential:

• Track record delivering digital and IT change end to end, from definition through to acceptance and transition into support.
• Experience managing delivery by third parties suppliers, shared services or managed service providers including change control and sign-off.
• Able to establish portfolio and delivery standards proportionate to a small organisation, rather than importing a heavyweight method.
• Confident reporting delivery status, risk and spend to an executive audience and an investment committee.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, CLIENT encourages applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, CLIENT welcomes applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources