Technology Excellence & Performance Director Lazio

Technology Excellence & Performance Director
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

About the role

Do you want to be part of the biggest digital transformation in the EdTech and help people around the world to learn languages and realize their dreams?

The English Language Learning (ELL) division of Pearson is looking for a talented and motivated professional to join our growing team as Head of Technology Excellence & Performance.

Reporting to the ELL CTO you will be a key member of the leadership team and act as a strategist, advisor, and decision-maker.

You will act as an extension of the CTO to balance priorities, communicate effectively, and maximize the effectiveness of the leadership team.

You will be instrumental in helping enable communication, collaboration, strategy, and special projects execution across the ELL Tech organization.

Your strong background in technology and your outstanding organizational skills, detail-orientation, and analytical mindset will be key for succeeding in driving the modernization of ELL Tech organization.

High Level Responsibilities

Be the trusted advisor and brainstorming partner of the CTO acting as a sounding board for new ideas and initiatives

Providing independent, informed, unbiased insight including on the ground feedback.

Be a change agent to consolidate processes and ways of working for optimized efficiency and productivity

Consolidate and maintain an operating model for ELL Tech including objectives and key results (OKRs) and critical metrics

Manage executive priorities and effectively triage escalations

Champion people initiatives in partnership with HR

Partner with finance on technology budget management, headcount management and forecasting

Develop and manage dashboards and analytics to monitor team performance indicators and help drive accountability and priorities

Support the CTO in running ELL Tech organization by overseeing Operations, Special Projects and communications

Manage operational staff meetings providing insights and analysis to inform strategic conversations.

Document and communicate decisions and action items from meetings.

Ensure follow-up and closure of action items to increase accountability.

Partner with the CTO leadership team to define, prepare and communicate the strategic backlog of technology plans, including quarterly, annual and 3-year strategy

About you

Qualifications & Skills

Proven experience in business/executive management, engineering or similar role.

Passion for doing whatever it takes to solve complex problems

Proven ability to quickly learn new things and "can do" attitude

Experience in leading and coaching an agile team

Track record of handling confidential information with the utmost sensitivity

Proven experience in project coordination and reporting

Ability to work independently and deliver results with little supervision

Excellent organization and time management skills; ability to prioritize tasks effectively

Proven track record of effectively interacting with senior stakeholders on cross-functional projects

"Calm under fire"

Operational experience in a previous role

Track record in planning and driving execution and adoption of key strategic initiatives across large teams

Strong financial analysis and budget planning and management experience and skills

Passion for education and learning

Experience in working with multinational, multicultural and distributed teams

Executive-level presentation skills and experience.

Excellent communicator in English, written and verbal.

**Job**: TECHNOLOGY

**Organization**: English Language Learning

**Schedule**: FULL-_TIME

**Req ID**: 5689

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