National Lead - Marketing Technology - eCommerce

National Lead - Marketing Technology

Lead the delivery function with in marketing technology - Platform lifecycle management & platform feature sets - Manage an external partner ecosystem of platform providers & developers.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

- DELIVERY Identify, scope out and deliver new platforms for marketing related initiatives Undertake all initiatives around building new capabilities and functionalities in existing and new platforms Work directly with external developer agencies to deliver new capabilities

- Manage platform roadmap and life cycle for all marketing platforms Create test use cases to leverage features of existing platforms Manage development and delivery of technology solutions Support and deliver IT and Technology Development Strategy Ensure that technology solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with architectural principles, standards and roadmaps

- Consider financial impact of technology solutions, with a view to delivering value to our customers Develop coding and development standards, ensuring solutions are suitably assured and of quality. Understand business requirements Provide technical leadership and innovation across all aspects of technology development Develop and maintain effective ways of working throughout the department and organization Lead transition of solutions to outsource partner and into live service, where applicable Provide support and mentoring to technical team leads, including talent and succession planning Lead and manage technical delivery resources

- API BASED WIDGET NETWORK Responsible for creation of REST, PULL & PUSH APIs across our 3rd party partner ecosystem Development & integration of widgets across world wide web

- PARTNER ECOSYSTEM Identify, onboard and actively manage a large ecosystem of partners platform providers & developers Develop long term partnerships with key technology providers

KEY METRICS :

- Delivery timelines

- Platform betas

- No of widgets

- No of errors reported

- No of test scenarios

- Business KPIs

APTITUDE Team management, Initiative & Ownership, Speed and agility, Manage change and ambiguity, Comfortable in a high-pressure environment