The Digital Planning Manager at ScottishPower is responsible for leading the development and execution of the UK digital planning strategy across all business areas. This role ensures the alignment and integration of digital initiatives across all business areas and CoEs, promotes efficiency and operational cost savings through the standardisation of IT solutions, and drives the digital transformation of business processes. You’ll collaborate extensively with internal and external stakeholders to enhance digital capabilities, improve data governance, and implement AI solutions.
Additionally, this role involves managing multidisciplinary teams using agile methodologies, integrating plans from multiple data sources, overseeing budget management, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and security standards. The goal is to support the company's growth and innovation objectives while enhancing the digital user experience and operational efficiency.
What you’ll be doing
As the Digital Planning Manager, you’ll be responsible for defining and implementing the UK digital planning strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's digital transformation goals. You’ll coordinate digital planning processes across the Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and Digital Areas, collaborating with Global Heads of Digital Planning & Digital Culture and Practices to share best practices and ensure alignment. This will ensure the prioritisation of digital activities based on value and efficiency, developing methodologies to evaluate and prioritise solutions that deliver the highest benefits and savings while complying with regulatory and security requirements.
Leading on the strategy for standardising IT solutions (at an international level), you’ll strive to achieve efficiency, synergies, and operational cost savings, while maintaining excellence in security and regulatory compliance.
You’ll support the design and implementation of Digital Business Plans, focusing on data governance and AI to drive digital transformation and innovation. This will involve liaising with Data & AI Governance Leads, and business and IT managers to coordinate Data and AI governance, ensuring strategic decision-making and alignment with the company's digital objectives.
A key part of the role will be to lead the strategic improvement of internal processes and methodologies for digitisation, innovation, quality, and project planning, ensuring the department's projects are well-managed and budgeted. Other aspects of the role include:
- Managing and leading multidisciplinary teams in a high-demand environment, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for digitalisation, improve data quality, and implement AI solutions that enhance business processes and user experience.
- Managing the Data and AI management budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and alignment with the company's financial goals.
- Identifying and mitigating risks associated with digital transformation initiatives, ensuring the security and compliance of all implemented solutions.
What you’ll bring
- Significant experience in leading, analysing, planning and developing digital teams and solutions internationally.
- Experience in leading, coordinating and supervising multinational, multidisciplinary teams with a focus on Data Governance and AI.
- Experience in economic monitoring of projects and management of their resources.
- Experience managing teams
- Experience managing agile projects
What’s in it for you
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
- Payroll giving and charity matched funding
- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
- Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why ScottishPower
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.
