Head of Platforms

4 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Potentia Full time

**Current state**:
One of the most visible and widespread enterprise FMCG businesses nationally is evolving. This 100% homegrown powerhouse is transforming themselves to further embrace a digital operating model and the productization of their technology. In turn, they will put the customer at the heart of what they do in this new digital world, bring additional value to them and in turn evolve themselves.

**Why now**:
A change of executive and the multi-year strategy approved, this business is fully committed to the new horizon of augmenting themselves through embracing digital. Platforms and products initiatives are underway with capability building to fuel these initiatives happening in parallel. The existing team has some of the skills but new blood is sought to reframe perspectives and lead areas that are brand new. Here’s where you come in.

**Your role**:
Lead the vision, platform roadmap, implementation and execute the strategy for their digital platforms. Provide and enable customer-centred technology, through:

- ** Platform Leadership**:Champion contemporary thinking and behaviors for infrastructure and platforms and create strategy, planning & operational models
- ** People Management & Leadership**: Growth and management of your new team of 30+ people across delivery, analysis & ops and their professional development
- ** Delivery Management**:Delivery framework creation leading to tracking strategic / tactical milestones and orchestrate through your team leads and relationships with other parts of the business and vendors
- ** Portfolio Governance**:Own special projects & optimising existing systems while allocating investment for new initiatives
- ** Technology strategy**: Dream and define a rallying vision, garner insights and knowledge to build confidence in marriage of product thinking and technology
- ** Commercial & Financial Management**: Manage the budget for Cloud and Platforms Product function, including forecasting, financial analysis & revenue generation

**Your fit**:
Digital transformation champion and leader. You’ll enjoy the opportunity to manage cross-functional teams and collaborate with the leadership team to drive the change and adoption of new technology in the business. You will have embarked on these kinds of journeys and changes before and have a few battle scars from a history in some form of engineering and technology operation.

If you enjoy leading and shaping the digital future, think and act strategically, drive, manage and build relationships and can think and act strategically we want to hear from you.

**Keywords for you**:
cloud migration, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), enterprise platforms, digital transformation
- Sarah Mackenzie Leadership Consultant
- 021 673 571

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