Head - Enterprise Edge Services

Scope:

- Head of Enterprise Edge Services will be responsible for heading the companies Enterprise Edge platforms including Data centres, compute, Data management & storage technologies.

- In collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, define the vision and drive all aspects of the Enterprise Edge Strategy, ensuring that technology-based solutions and services are fully supported by the right architectures, systems and operating models.

- Accountable for Global Enterprise Edge Services, Projects, Operations, Security and budget

- Partner with cross technology teams to deliver the innovation, development and deployment of new Enterprise technology solutions providing strong leadership and senior level advocacy for their delivery.

- Partner with the line of business to understand evolving work trends in design, engineering and modelling applications which need to be supported by the underlying infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Accountable for the Enterprise Edge Services budget and capacity planning: Manage budget spends on vendors of all Enterprise Edge, Compute & Datacentre services. Oversee and authorise invoices from 3rd parties, contractors and additional spending.

- Work jointly with Group procurement and Finance teams to challenge vendor costs, and make recommendations for contract changes, renegotiations, and vendor replacements to continually improve value to the business.

- Manage vendor relationships, to ensure that the vendor portfolio meets our needs. Complete vendor service reviews, evaluating and selecting new vendors, and make recommendations for strategic vendor decisions.

- Drive contract and service agreement renegotiations, to ensure that vendors always provide the best possible value to the company

- Conduct monthly roadmap reviews with relevant service managers and Senior Leadership team represents, communicating on project health status, milestones, issues and budget.