Digital Portfolio Leader - HR Tech

Serving as the point-of-contact for Mercer Digital, the Digital Portfolio Leader will be responsible for driving and growing a portfolio of digital products, capabilities and strategic initiatives across Mercer’s businesses – focusing on HR Tech and Digital Ecosystem Partnership. Working closely with business partners, this person will bridge the understanding between business and technical domains to accelerate the use of digital capabilities and business models to advance the firm’s digital ambitions. The successful candidate will steer the approach for any strategic digital challenges faced in the development process of products and manage a pipeline of digital opportunities with deep understanding of business and client/ end-user unmet needs and digital assets & capabilities.

What can you expect?

• Identify, prioritize, develop, and track pipeline of digital opportunities strategically
• Identify and filter market and technology trends to capture new digital product opportunities to be share with product managers and senior leadership
• Identify ecosystem partnership
• Be a thought leader with emerging trends/tech solutions in order to provide a roadmap to turn those trends into tangible products
• Use expertise in subject matter to influence high level stakeholders
• To acquire digital skills in a cutting-edge environment

What you will be rewarded with:
Our employees enjoy excellent benefits such as:

• Competitive salary with annual review
• Up to 12% pension contribution
• Full healthcare cover
• Study Support
• Flexitime or flexistart
• Flexible working/work from home
• Sports & Social clubs/Wellness Programme
• Paid annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave days
• Travel ticket/bike to work/dental are optional
• Subsidised canteen

We will count on you to:

• Work closely with the Product Owners, Product Managers, and Product Category Leaders to execute product roadmaps
• Take a proactive approach to anticipating issues and risks, working with the Product Owners and Product Managers in partnering with senior leadership for risk mitigation and resolution
• Actively identify cross-sales/up-sales and xBusiness Unit opportunities and communicate to Product Managers
• Grow the pipeline of digital products and capabilities in alignment with the business product road map
• Grow the pipeline of ecosystem partnership
• Support LOBs leadership to actively contribute to the development of LOBs digital agenda

What you need to have:

• 5+ years in product or engineering or technical sales
• Strong Industry domain digital and technical expertise based on experience in technology roles at a company in the HR Tech.
• Experience in evaluating startups and building external partnership.
• Strong technology and business acumen
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, presentation skills
• Knowledge of e-commerce, data-as-a-service, artificial intelligence, EdTech, or HR Tech is a plus

What makes you stand out:

• Basic understanding of Agile/ Lean product development
• Digital product development experience
• Prior experience with top digital product development companies in digital enterprise product design, development and deployment
• Ability to stay on top of the digital trends and find relevant opportunities

MERCER

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer’s more than 25,000 employees are based in 44 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. In Ireland, Mercer employs over 500 employees in offices based in Dublin and Cork. Mercer is a business of Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 76,000 colleagues and annual revenue of $17 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit Follow Mercer on Twitter @Mercer.

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