Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

About the Opportunity

Technology, Consulting, and Innovation (TC&I)

Our business is responsible for the largest network of Research & Development engineering laboratories across Europe, delivering projects from consultancy through to test rigs and prototypes. We are leading the way with our robotics team developing innovative solutions to access some of the most challenging environments for our clients. We work collaboratively with both colleagues and clients using the full breadth of our capability to provide the right answers to complex problems. Our teams work cross-sector; from hydrogen, fusion, AMR’s and SMR's through to supporting decommissioning, remediation, existing nuclear and non-nuclear infrastructure and defence.

At TC&I we:

• Enhance, protect, and maintain critical national assets in challenging environments.

• Break new ground using science, data, and experience to deliver new solutions.

• Deliver secure, low carbon energy, bringing benefits to the communities and environments around us.

• Think differently and challenge the accepted, with inclusive, collaborative, and diverse teams of the best scientific and technical minds.

We are currently seeking a Digital Programme Manager – Technology, Consulting and Innovation. Your core duties will fall into five broad categories:

1. STRATEGY DEVLOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION

2. PEOPLE ENGAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT

3. PROJECT DELIVERY

4. CAPBILITY DEVLOPMENT AND GROWTH

5. GROWTH

The Digital Programme Manager will be focused primarily on delivering Jacobs Digital Strategy within Technology, Consulting, and Innovation. The role provides an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to develop and influence the future growth of the business in a dynamic and agile team.

*Digital is harnessing the best of the internet era in terms of culture, new ways of working, disruptive business models, new technologies and data analytics techniques to develop solutions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• STRATEGY DEVLOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION - Responsible for laying the foundations for digital transformation and growth – involves strategy development and implementation, monitoring and continuous improvement and cultural acceleration

• PEOPLE ENGAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT – Requires significant internal Stakeholder Engagement, Relationship Management, and day to day management of small teams. Line manager for circa 5 staff

• PROJECT DELIVERY - Accountable for the delivery of selective digital projects across Technology, Consulting, and Innovation; Current projects include (but are not limited to):

• Digitisation of Birchwood Labs (process, equipment and facilities),

• Business Optimisation Projects (tools and Processes),

• Digital Sales & Marketing Material Development

• CAPBILITY DEVLOPMENT AND GROWTH – Responsible for defining the requirements for of skills, capability and development programmes to get teams digitally enabled to deliver our growth ambitions

• GROWTH – A forward looking leader and role model for Growth via embedding innovation, digital and technology solutions, delivering digital efficiencies and collaborating across Lines of Business for advance our Culture in a commercial delivery environment.

Here’s what you’ll need :

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience of leading large scale digital transformation projects

• This is a new role, so proactive, adaptive and resilience is necessary.

• The role requires significant leadership, collaboration and stakeholder engagement, therefore must be experienced at achieving goals through the work of others as well as delivering outcomes themselves

• Ability to influence and drive innovative solutions forward from identification and inception to successful outcomes

• Strategic thinking, tactical management and growth mindset

• Previous experience of collaborative consultancy, product enabled solutions, and innovative ideas sales and commercial models

Our Culture:

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

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