Manager, Tech - Platform Transformation

• The Platform Transformation Lead will work to identify, prioritize, implement and establish new transformational capabilities within the Product Platforms & Engineering organizations remit.

• The Product Platforms & Engineering organization aim to “make it easy for anyone to build digital products” and, as part of our journey has a roadmap of new and transformational capabilities to introduce including; digital testing platforms; modern DevOps capabilities, and AI enabled low-code development.

• The Platform Transformation Lead will manage a small portfolio of projects (2 to 10) that rapidly define an opportunity area, identify a range of approaches and solutions, drive alignment & funding to the establishment of POC / Pilot capabilities and then implement, monitor and measure before either recommending that they are scaled or terminated.

• The Platform Transformation Lead will partner with Platform Managers, Platform Architects, Enterprise Architects and the platforms customers to identify a roadmap of transformational new capabilities that are aligned to the organization’s mission and will work concurrently on bringing a small number of the biggest opportunities to life.

• This role is a combination of strategy (20% to 30%) & execution (70% to 80%) including strategic portfolio prioritization, solution design & fit and stakeholder alignment along with detailed project execution.

• This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week onsite at our Amsterdam office.

What’s on the menu?

• Build and maintain a roadmap of transformational opportunities

• Identify and align project success criteria

• Identify sponsorship and funding streams, complete project demand, funding and approval processes

• Project manage the delivery of transformational capabilities across the Product Platforms & Engineering team via small matrix-managed delivery teams

• Establish pilot / POC capabilities with clear & measurable success criteria that align to the organization’s mission

• Own the decision-making process to scale or terminate pilots & POCs

• Define a handover mechanism to longer term owners of established capabilities

• Monitor the technology market and operational landscape to stay abreast of the latest trends to understand emerging opportunity areas

• 5+ years of project management experience

• Proven, hands-on Agile & Waterfall project management experience

• Proven experience managing a portfolio of projects with total annual spend of >$3M

• Requirements analysis, definition & mapping

• Solution and process design

• Management, tracking and reporting of individual project budgets > $1Millon

• Understanding of Testing, DevOps and Low-code platforms

• Experience of working in diverse global teams and as part of large matrix teams

• Knowledge or experience gained from within the CPG industry would be an advantage