Job Description

Job Title: Digital Product Specialist
Working Pattern: Full Time
Working Location: Bristol

As a Digital Product Specialist, you will work with Group Digital leaders and Defence senior sponsors to ensure a deployment roadmap of digital capabilities that drives near-term and long-term value in line with the Group and Division strategy and objectives.

You will work across product, delivery and end-user communities to ensure Defence-differentiated applications are deployed effectively, with the change management, training and support needed to drive adoption and long-term technology utilisation.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

This role sits within our Defence Digital Product Team, a vibrant, value-driven group delivering an innovation pipeline to demonstrate and productionise new digital technologies. You will work in a fast-paced, innovative environment, delivering digital solutions that directly support Defence programmes and collaborating closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.

As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

Working with group Digital leaders and Defence senior sponsors to ensure a deployment roadmap of digital capabilities that drive near-term and long-term value in line with the Group and Division strategy and objectives.
Work with product managers, architects, project managers, business analysts, subject matter experts, end users, ecosystem partners and digital suppliers to ensure deployment of Defence-differentiated applications.
Provide business direction and decision-making to the delivery teams to ensure right-first-time application deployment to time and cost, and to eliminate barriers to delivery.
Aid the end-user communities in ensuring change management, acceptance testing, training, onboarding, support model and continuous product development are provided to ensure user adoption, and long-term technology utilisation and process alignment.
Maintain a clear view with other product owners across the total technology landscape to ensure harmonious delivery of related and dependent technologies, maximising synergies and removing barriers.
Applying an innovation mindset to discover, develop and deliver market-leading digital customer solutions.

Who we’re looking for

Essential Requirements

Vibrant team player.
Experienced in identifying then leading and driving improvements to priority areas of the business.
Committed to creating value to the business using digital technologies.
Evidence a strong stakeholder network.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders to influence change throughout organisation.
Ability to combine strategic thinking with pragmatism, focusing on delivery.
Excellent communicator at all levels and able to rationalise complex information (both high level and detailed level) to make it understandable for others to work with. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively.

Preferred Requirements

Digital product experience over a range of projects and programmes (size/scope, cost, duration etc).
Understanding of the full project/programme delivery lifecycle and experience of DevOps, waterfall and agile methodologies.
Leadership skills to coordinate across diverse and complex cross-functional groups.
Authority to take complex and high-value decisions on behalf of the business.
Business Acumen – Driven by business strategy, portfolio prioritization, go to market strategy, performance measures and financial metrics.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category

Digital