Description

The Demand Principal is responsible for the provision of excellent knowledge and influences the technology strategy aligning the market demands and financial and commercial plans. They ensure, through planning and analysis, the transformation of business demands from ideas into defined and agreed Network and/or IT deliverables. The Demand Principal focusses upon planning demand and portfolio management activities to deliver the technology strategy. Typically reports to the Head of Demand Management.

Job Responsibility

• Influences strategic decision making related to the implementation of strategic demand management decisions to ensure alignment between business strategy and Network/IT planning in support of business needs;
• Understands and interprets business requirements of users, including portfolio and lifecycle management of services offered, requirement capture, business rules and logic, financial and business-case constraints and alignment of delivery capabilities;
• Helps lead on demand management activities including impact assessments, resource planning, stakeholder management and budget management;
• Leads on business analysis activities including requirements analysis, traceability matrix, process analysis, benefits validation, customer experience evaluation and user acceptance test verification;
• Leads on portfolio control activities including annual planning of forecasting, budget planning and control, prioritisation recommendations and sourcing recommendation;
• Contributes to the team working with solution architectures to ensure project feasibility and strategic alignment and working with project management to enable cross-functional working and effective management of resources;
• Builds solid relations with user experience to ensure business process alignment with the customer experience;
• May have accountability for budget in area.

Skills

Agile
Partner and Supplier Management
Project and Programme Management
Demand Management
Requirements Analysis
Complexity Management
Communication
Data Analytics and Insights
System and Process Transformation
Business Partnering
Change and Adaptability
Collaboration
Business and Commercial Acumen
Strategy and Vision
Risk Management

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