Vice President, Group Digital Projects
- ADNOC Group
- Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
وصف الوظيفة
JOB PURPOSE:
Lead the strategic direction of the Group Company’s digital landscape, driving transformative change, and positioning the organization as a global digital leader. Provide guidance and direction to inspire excellence in the implementation of the ADNOC Group Digital & Cybersecurity (GD&CS) strategy, ensuring technological innovation, robust cybersecurity practices, operational excellence, and enhanced customer experience.
Please note: Please refer to the functional statement for Group Digital & Cybersecurity for a comprehensive understanding of the mandate, objectives, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives that govern our organization's digital & cybersecurity endeavors.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Job Specific Accountabilities
Digital strategy development:
- Formulate a comprehensive Digital & Cybersecurity strategy aligned with the organization’s business objectives and the strategic imperatives of ADNOC GD&CS.
- Lead the review and refinement of the organization’s business model by leveraging digital capabilities, identifying new revenue streams, incorporating innovative market approaches, and forming strategic partnerships.
- Lead assessments of existing digital assets, technologies, and processes to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and develop strategies to enhance digital operations and performance.
- Implement mechanisms in digital operations to futureproof the organization, ensuring adaptability to emerging trends and technologies, and the ability to withstand potential disruptions.
- Foster and cultivate strategic alliances, which accelerate digital innovation, bringing diverse approaches and perspectives to the digital landscape.
- Direct and facilitate translation of business requirements into digital projects, ensuring timely, high-quality, and cost-effective execution, with a focus on delivering measurable value realisation.
- Identify and recommend opportunities for digital transformation within the Oil and Gas and Energy sector, incorporating an evaluation of the competitive landscape and industry trends.
- Establish governance structures to oversee digital initiatives, ensuring compliance with rigorous standards for security, regulatory compliance, and ethical practices.
- Ensure that the Strategy, and its development, is traceable to the needs and agreement of the Group Company business.
- Ensure the timely implementation and delivery of HQ directives and ADNOC Group policies within the Group Company, including compliance with data privacy, security, and ethical standards.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with any jurisdictional regulations and compliances specific to the operational locality of the Group Company, in partnership with the business teams.
- Continuously monitor HQ directives and relevant ADNOC Group policies and procedures to ensure ongoing compliance and update the digital landscape as necessary to align with these directives and policies.
- Promptly report any non-conformities or deviations from the above to the GD&CS SVP and collaborate on developing an appropriate and timely resolution plan.
- Define and lead the overall strategy for leveraging data-driven insights within the organization, determining its strategic direction in utilizing data and AI to drive value across the organization.
- Formulate a data strategy that outlines how data will be collected, stored, analysed, and utilized to meet the organization’s goals.
- Lead efforts in harnessing advanced analytics techniques, such as predictive and prescriptive analytics, to extract actionable insights from data and enhance decision-making processes.
- Oversee the integration of AI and machine learning into various business processes. Identifying use cases like predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and personalized customer experiences to optimize operations.
- Ensure the implementation of a robust data infrastructure in place, including data lakes, data warehouses, and cloud computing capabilities, while evaluating technology investments and partnerships to support data storage and processing requirements.
- Stay informed about emerging trends in data analytics and AI, and advocate for the adoption of new technologies and methodologies that will enhance the organization’s competitiveness.
- Maintain awareness of the strategy, planning and progress of the GD&CS central Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture activities, ensuring that the Group Company Digital planning includes the agreed and timely adoption of the core methods, tools, and policies developed by these HQ functions.
- Formulate the annual budget for Digital & Cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and organizational objectives.
- Develop and implement strategies to allocate the annual budget among various digital projects, technology upgrades, data analytics tools, AI implementations, and other strategic initiatives effectively.
- Monitor and control expenses within GD&CS, regularly reviewing and analyzing expenditure to ensure adherence to budgetary requirements.
- Identify and implement cost-saving measures and optimizations to maximize the value and efficiency of investments.
- Assess the return on investment (ROI) of digital initiatives and technology investments, providing insights and analysis to support informed decision-making on resource allocations and potential adjustments to the budget.
- Conduct forecasts to anticipate future financial needs for digital projects and technology advancements, ensuring appropriate budgetary planning and allocation to support the organization’s digital growth and transformation objectives.
- Strategically position the organization as a thought leader in digital transformations by actively monitoring and staying updated on market trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.
- Represent the organization in industry associations, councils, and regulatory bodies, serving as an influential voice and representing the organization’s interests and perspective.
- Advocate for policies and regulations that foster digital innovation, fair competition and a level playing field, while balancing the interests and objectives of the organization.
- Identify opportunities to showcase the organization’s digital expertise and thought leadership through participation in industry conferences, events, and speaking engagements.
- Define the vision for digital products and set a strategic roadmap that outlines the direction and evolution of the product portfolios.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather insights and requirements defining product features, specifications and functionality. Prioritize these features based on employee experience and aligned with business objectives.
- Oversee the product roadmap, setting release schedules, milestones, and feature prioritization. Continuously evaluate and update the roadmap in response to market trends, customer feedback, and business objectives.
- Place strong emphasis on user-centric design and the user experience in product development, ensuring that digital products are intuitive and user-friendly.
- Ensure digital products are designed with scalability in mind. Anticipate growth and ensure that products can handle increased user demand.
- Lead digital transformation initiatives within the Group Company, aligning efforts with the overall ADNOC Group strategy to drive organizational progress and achieve strategic objectives.
- Foster a culture of innovation throughout the organization, nurturing an environment that encourages continuous learning, and awareness of technological advancements.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and enhance operational efficiencies through innovative technology adoption, leveraging best practices.
- Transform the organization's digital and technology capabilities into a strategic asset, positioning them as a key driver of business growth.
- Collaborate across group companies to drive innovation projects, facilitating the development and implementation of innovative solutions.
- Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration within the organization, facilitating the exchange of ideas and best practices.
- Champion a customer-centric approach to digital solutions ensuring that all digital initiatives prioritize and enhance customer experience.
- Ensure strict adherence to relevant technical and security standards while managing costs effectively.
- Lead assessment of internal processes, benchmarking them against industry best practices.
- Pursue implementation of innovative and intelligent digital solutions to enhance functional efficiency.
- Lead development and management of business relationships with internal departments and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for digital partnerships, alliances, etc.
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments related to Digital projects. Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies to safeguard the achievement of strategic objectives.
- Participate and contribute to the design, development, and establishment of an Integrated Risk Management Framework within the organization while identifying and assessing relevant domain risks and implement measures to manage and mitigate all identified risks within the division.
- Ensure corporate business ethics and code of conduct are communicated to employees in compliance with corporate policies and guidelines.
- Ensure effective development and implementation of Digital security policies and systems to safeguard and protect all Digital operations and ensure reliability and data integrity.
Leadership and Advisory:
- Provide leadership direction and ensure that the division’s long and short-term business plans are effectively translated into performance objectives to realize the organization’s vision and mission.
- Define clear performance expectations and goals for the division and teams.
- Implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate individual and team performance.
- Conduct regular performance reviews with direct reports to assess progress toward goals, provide constructive feedback, and identify areas for improvement.
- Work with Human Capital to implement performance improvement plans to support professional growth and development of employees.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to employees, helping them overcome challenges, and facilitate their professional growth.
- Work with Human Capital and define clear career paths and development plans and help employees identify opportunities for growth within the organization.
- Identify skills gaps and support training and development initiatives to ensure that employees have the skills and competencies needed for career advancement.
- Participate in succession planning efforts, identifying high-potential employees for leadership roles.
- Encourage employees to gain cross-functional experience and exposure to different areas of the organization to broaden their skills and knowledge.
- Develop strategies to retain top talent by creating a stimulating work environment, offering growth opportunities, and addressing employee concerns.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration and communication within the organization to ensure that Digital strategies and initiatives are well-integrated.
- Develop and implement clear and concise communication strategies to convey complex technical information and Digital strategies.
- Act as a mediator and facilitate conflict resolution when necessary.
- Encourage knowledge sharing and best practice dissemination among Digital teams.
Internal
- All internal functions and business leadership
- ADNOC HQ
- Shared Services
- Vendors
- Government authorities
- Regulatory bodies
- Industry associations
- Partners and affiliates
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT engineering or equivalent.
- MBA or equivalent post-graduate qualification from a premier business school will be preferred.
- 20+ years of pioneering and executing transformative digital strategies and diverse experience in Information Technology, spanning different domains.
- 10+ years in progressive Digital leadership roles with a focus on digital transformation.
