£500/day to £600/day
Leeds, England
Contract, Variable

Digital Service Owner GDS

Posted by Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited.

Digital Service Owner

Rate: £500 to £600

Location: Fully remote

Duration: To end March 2025 initially

IR35: In scope.

As the Service Owner, you will be responsible for the successful operation of three digital services that are at different stages in their digital lifecycle.

  • NPWD (National Packaging Waste Database)
  • WEEE Online (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)
  • IWS Online (International Waste Shipments)

You will ensure these services are maintained to a high standard, delivering continuous improvement, new digital requirements from regulatory reform and decommissioning as services transition to new platforms.

  • Coordinate the Digital Senior Technical Officers' day-to-day activity across the digital services as part of a matrix management structure.
  • Liaise with colleagues, contractors and third-party suppliers involved in the support and development of the digital services and regulatory reform digital projects
  • Manage contracts for maintenance and development of the digital services with Commercial, including service performance reviews and reconciliation of contractual payments with delivery.
  • Manage the financial budgets allocated for the continuous improvement and development of these services.
  • Identify and prioritising continuous improvement requirements within the budget limitations.
  • Ensure that bugs and issues encountered are logged and progressed in line with agreed priorities.
  • Ensures that the digital services remain compliant with all security, data protection and accessibility requirements.
  • Work with business leads to understand future regulatory requirements and build them into strategic road map for the digital services.

You will ideally be able to demonstrate the following:

  • An ability to build and foster relationships with internal and external customers to identify needs and deliver a solution.
  • 3RD Party liaison - New tendering process - Working with Commercial.
  • Work closely with the Operations Manager to agree and understand the workplan to deliver multiple work activities to tight and varying deadlines
  • An ability to be agile in delivery allowing flexibility, resourcefulness and ability to prioritise work to deliver the best outcome and meet deadlines.
  • Experience of budget and contract management
  • Experience of delivering in a digital role is essential, ideally as a Service Owner.
  • Knowledge or experience of Government Digital Service (GDS) and waste regulation is desirable but not essential.
  • Good IT skills, including proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications.

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