Director of Transformation & Innovation (NI Water)

On behalf of Northern Ireland Water, MCS Group is proud to be exclusively retained to recruit the position of Director of Transformation & Innovation. Our client, Northern Ireland Water, recently named Employer of the Year at the Belfast Telegraph Awards, takes pride in delivering Northern Ireland's most precious resource - the water for life we all rely on to thrive. Every aspect of life in Northern Ireland depends on NI Water's vital services. At Northern Ireland Water, you won't just impact the lives of people today. As a water company, NI Water is a custodian of the environment, and they are harnessing game-changing technology, innovation, and science to accelerate progress in climate change, energy, and environmental sustainability to positively impact our future generations. About this prestigious role: The Director of Transformation & Innovation, part of the NI Water Executive Committee, shares responsibility for leading and managing NI Water's services effectively, ensuring value for money. This strategic role involves crafting and implementing strategies to achieve the corporate vision of being a world-class water utility and advancing priorities in Customer, Water, Economy, Nature, and People. You will take strategic responsibility and provide leadership for NI Water's transformation and innovation programmes, ensuring an ambitious, enterprise-wide approach is developed to achieve agreed targets. You will be a champion for creativity across the company, driving efficiency, improving value for money and developing new, world-class ways of working. The post-holder will establish an innovation framework that encourages creative thinking and the generation of new ideas across the company, ensuring oversight of an innovation pipeline with a steady flow of projects from ideation to implementation. In this regard, you will work closely with those reporting to the Director of Engineering and Sustainability and charged with developing and delivering innovation projects centred on science and engineering initiatives. The post holder will support the business in proactively identifying opportunities to advance NI Water's strategy and vision through change initiatives that will deliver and embed measurable business improvement. Please refer to the Candidate Briefing Pack for full details of role responsibilities and accountabilities. The person: Qualified to degree level with 5 years' relevant, senior leadership experience or have 7 years' relevant, senior leadership experience With specific reference to dates, 5 years' significant, relevant and successful experience of: Responsibility for large budgets, continuously identifying and realising opportunities for cost savings and service improvement to deliver the greatest benefit to customers and other stakeholders. Setting and delivering major strategies for innovation and transformation, within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, working with and engaging constructively with a range of internal & external stakeholders at all levels to deliver measurable improvements in business performance (e.g. cost savings, productivity metrics etc.) Reporting at Board/Senior Leadership level, including presentation of business strategies, policy or investment decisions. Working in collaborative partnerships and influencing and negotiating all levels, both internally and externally, with key stakeholders. Demonstrable experience in the end-to-end delivery of substantial programme and project management. Additional criteria may be applied before shortlisting as listed in the Candidate Briefing Pack How to Apply: Your submission to this advert will be taken as an expression of interest, you will then receive a Candidate Briefing Pack, which will explain how to complete your full application. Applications should be made via email to: by 4.00 pm Friday, 13th December 2024 and must include in separate documents: A cover letter clearly stating how you meet Candidate Criteria and Competencies, your exposure to Board/Senior Leadership decision making and your motivation for applying for this role. Your cover letter should be a maximum of two sides of A4. A comprehensive curriculum vitae (CV) providing supporting evidence. A full schedule of the Recruitment and Selection process and dates will be detailed in our Candidate Briefing Pack. If you have a disability which means you require assistance at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact Kirsty Dillon directly at MCS Group, and we will endeavour to facilitate your request. Contact: Kirsty Dillon at MCS Group on . All conversations will be treated in the strictest of confidence. NI Water is committed to equality of opportunity. Following receipt of your application, you will receive an acknowledgement from MCS Group. Within this response, you will be required to provide consent under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you fail to provide this consent your application will not be processed further. Skills: Director of Transformation & Innovation Transformation Innovation Strategic Leadership Benefits: Attractive salary reflecting seniority of post

Location: Belfast, GB

Posted Date: 11/22/2024