DIRECTOR DIGITAL

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Great Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Defined-benefit pension plan.
• Nine-day work cycle which normally results in every other Monday off, providing for a balanced approach to work, family life and community.
• Flex-time and partially remote work schedule (providing the option to work remotely 3 days per 2 week period), depending on nature of work, operational requirements and work location.

Manitoba Hydro is a leader among energy companies in North America, recognized for providing highly reliable service and exceptional customer satisfaction. Join our team of Manitoba’s best as we continue to build a company that supports innovation, commitment and customer service.

The Director of Digital is at the forefront of Manitoba Hydro’s digital ambition to enable the business, customers, and employees to adopt new digital practices and technologies that will deliver simpler, faster, and better services, enable insight-driven decision making and yield more efficient and effective operations. Reporting to the Vice President of Digital and Technology (D&T), the Digital Director is a key member of the D&T Executive Leadership Team. The Director of Digital is responsible for the Corporation’s data strategy and roadmap, leveraging digital innovation and new ways of working to enhance customer and employee experience.

The Digital Division includes three departments: (1) Data & Analytics Practice Department; (2) Digital Innovation Hub Department, and (3) Modern Digital Workplace Department.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the definition, creation and implementation of the enterprise data strategy and assures the ongoing relevance, of Manitoba Hydro’s data strategy.
• Works with Executives, Enterprise Excellence and Legal to enable enterprise data governance, and to create a culture that manages data as an enterprise asset. Using a federated style of data analytics, a key responsibility will be, influencing stakeholders to maintain accountability for their data and associated business outcomes and at the same time ensuring the development of technology, processes, capabilities, and data management practices are in alignment with key business outcomes.
• Responsible for enabling the business to improve data trust (quality) by establishing effective mechanisms to measure and monitor the quality of strategic, operational and production data.
• Responsible for putting into place a programmatic approach for enterprise information management to identify, prioritize and execute the enterprise data and analytic initiatives with clear line of sight to enterprise strategies and business outcomes.
• Responsible for leading the development and deployment of the enterprise’s data and analytics capabilities for digital business. In a federated style, the business will be developing data analytic products that drive insights and actions. This role will be a key enabler in influencing the business to develop self-service analytics capabilities, at the same time put in the processes, standards, and guidelines so that the integrity of the enterprise data estate is maintained.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders, the Director of IT and the Director of Cyber Security & Enterprise Architecture to design, solution, implement and ensure long-term sustainability of the enterprise data estate and associated strategy.
• Collaborates with business and Information Technology Division stakeholders to transition to a product-oriented IT operating model with cross-functional product teams that deliver both Change and Run using agile delivery methods.
• Build critical strategic partnerships across the enterprise that enables and encourages agile and innovation approaches to remove technical roadblocks, explore unseen opportunities and influence value-driven outcomes.
• Identifies, advocates, and builds consensus around digital solutions that support employee and customer experience.
• Responsible for managing the strategic relationship with Microsoft vendor, and the Microsoft platform strategies including M365, Power Platform, and Azure Data Platform and the SAP Analytics Stack.
• Responsible for leading a fast-follower information technology innovation approach with the appropriate processes, tools, and metrics to support new growth opportunities and overall business goals.
• Responsible for the development and sustainment of Digital Division performance management, in alignment with enterprise business priorities and outcomes.

Qualifications:

The successful applicant will possess:

• A University Degree in an appropriate discipline with ten years of related management experience demonstrating progressively greater responsibility or an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
• 10+ years relevant experience.
• Relevant work experience in the Utility industry would be an asset.
• Demonstrated experience with the following:
• ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment, dynamic would be an asset.
• building formal and informal professional networks.
• maintaining and extending networks within, across and external to organizational boundaries.
• soliciting information on the enterprise’s direction and goals, as well as the industry’s competitive environment, to determine how the digital function can add value to the organization, employee experience, and customer satisfaction.
• guiding enterprise leadership to take an “outside-in” view of the digital possibilities for the future of its industry.
• employing sound judgment in determining how digital innovations will be deployed to produce business value.
• generating ideas, and critically evaluates future scenarios.

The successful applicant will also possess a demonstrated proficiency in all of Manitoba Hydro’s Executive Competencies including:

• Principled Leadership
• Agility
• Strategic Solution Builder
• Driving Execution
• Influence
• Optimizing Talent

Apply Now!

Visit www.hydro.mb.ca/careers to learn more about this position and to apply online. The deadline for applications is APRIL 3, 2023.

We thank you for your interest and will contact you if you are selected for an interview.

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