Digital Investment Director Jobs

The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. SNC-Lavalin is responding by rapidly becoming more agile, connected and sustainable.
We are leading the transformation of the infrastructure sector by harnessing people, data and technology to design, deliver and operate the most complex projects across the world.
From collaboration during design, leveraging data within a global programme management service, exploiting digital twins, and creating an ecosystem that can harness the power of data across our worldwide organisation.
We promote equality, diversity and inclusion in our policies, practices and business relationships. Some of our recent pledges are to increase female and ethnically diverse representation in our senior leadership community by 2023 (UK) and be a 'Disability Confident' and 'Inclusive Employer.
Your insight, values and experience will help us shape our digital future.
Company / Role Description
Founded in 1911, SNC Lavalin is global fully integrated professional services and project management company and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure.
From offices around the world, SNC-Lavalin's employees are proud to build what matters. Our teams provide comprehensive end-to-end project solutions – including capital investment, consulting, design, engineering, construction management, sustaining capital and operations and maintenance – to clients across mining and metallurgy, transportation, infrastructure, buildings and places, defence, clean power and nuclear.
In 2017, SNC-Lavalin acquired Atkins, one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, which has been fully integrated into our sectors and operates across UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and North America.
Known internally as Engineering Services, Atkins operates across five geographic regions (UK & Europe, Canada, USA, Middle East & Asia Pacific) with total revenues of around $4.0bn CAD and 20,000 employees. Our purpose is to stimulate growth across all markets and lines of business. By harnessing technology and data, we're changing how infrastructure is delivered, with unrivalled certainty and improved outcomes for clients and stakeholders. In this exciting role you will be supporting the business in becoming a digitally mature company.
As the Digital Investment Director your role is to translate our strategic ambition into reality by driving a coordinated portfolio of transformation projects that will collectively deliver our digital future. You will lead the prioritisation, oversight, governance and reporting on all digital investments to drive maximum return on investment.
Working alongside a team of ‘Investment Leads’, this role will help define and mobilise programmes, ensuring that cross-programme synergies are identified and responded to consistently. The Digital Investment Director will provide portfolio assurance to deliver expected outcomes aligned to our digital transformation strategy.
LINK: https://careers.snclavalin.com/our-markets.
Your Role

• Develop and evolve an investment programme management framework with focus on benefits and performance to ensure the portfolio of investments deliver expected outcomes.
• Ensure clarity and connection between investment case deliverables and target returns.
• Own, promote and ensure adoption of the Digital Governance Process, including management of the DGP lead.
• Engage with the digital practice to develop the execution plan for agreed digital investments, including the design of key management processes e.g., scope and deliverables
• Management, budget and financial controls, progress measurement and reporting, risk and interdependency management.
• Establish performance targets for each investment case and translate these into appropriate monitoring plans.
• Manage investment approvals to enable budget draw down, maintaining a view of costs and commitments thereafter.
• Lead on the development of responses required to correct performance issues across the digital investments.
• Manage programme financials, including cost forecasts, commitment monitoring, balance to complete, and engagement with corporate finance.
• Maintain and manage the investment risk register and items within to the ensure that mitigations are progressed by owners in a timely manner.
• Regularly review and challenge progress of investments, focusing on core control areas to validate progress and identify areas in need of attention.
• Align and integrate ideas from the DGP into other investment streams where possible.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders across the business to ensure the investment case meets the business need.
• Manage the annual investment cycle to facilitate the prioritisation investments, and the articulation of a coherent digital investment plan/roadmap including benefits and anticipated returns.
• Run the Digital investment committee agenda.

WHO YOU ARE?

• Experience in managing and directing large programmes with multiple projects and teams of project leaders.
• Excellent planning, organisational and co-ordination skills.
• Process orientated with a methodical and planned approach to achieving goals.
• Highly motivated and passionate about delivering major transformation across the global business by building and utilising high performing, often virtual, teams.
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate the role of data and technology in our future business.
• Excellent facilitation skills able to bring several individuals together from various teams (not necessarily all under line management “control”) to ensure the best solution is given for the need.
• Understanding of key technology requirements specifically in relation to project & programme management, automation of design, and lifecycle data capture and management.
• Experience of working across a global organisation and engaging teams across geographies and cultures.
• Well organised and deliverables focused with high technical and quality standards.
• Knowledge of industry trends with a focus on technology and data.
• A team player, able to manage relationships and influence and challenge across a range of stakeholders, including C-suite.
• Ability to understand and communicate a variety of business models with a focus on value-based selling.
• Articulate communicator with an authentic leadership style that translates effectively across both the business and client base.

Meeting Your Needs
When you start with us, you'll enjoy "Total Reward", a package that can be tailored to your lifestyle, career and personal needs. From flexible holidays to life assurance, health & wellbeing benefits, and career planning for the senior stage of your career.
Making sure you're supported is important to us. So, if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview. And let's talk about any adjustments you might need.
YourReward at SNC-Lavalin (snclavalin.com).
Training
Atkins is committed to developing its people both personally and professionally. Our colleagues have the advantage of access to a high ranging training portfolio and development activities designed to help make the best of individual’s abilities and talents. We also actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.
More About Us
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is a leading global consultancy with over 80 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world. Atkins, ranked as one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join.
Check out some of our recent, most exciting projects.