Head of Mobile Platforms Job Description

To establish a mobile strategy, and deliver quality mobile products and platforms that delight audiences and lay the foundation atop which the organisation will deliver scalable mobile products for years to come.

Skills [cont]

• Experience managing cross-functional software engineering teams
• Extensive experience of product development lifecycle and experience shipping major consumer software-as-a-service products at scale
• A strong understanding of the market and the strengths and weaknesses of competitor propositions
• Industry credibility and reputation

Competencies
Key ORGANISATION Competencies Required:
Planning and organising - able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.

Communication - able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
Influencing and persuading - able to present sound and well reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
Managing relationships and team working - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively.
Resilience - manages personal effectiveness by managing emotions in the face of pressure, set backs or when dealing with provocative situations. Demonstrates an approach to work that is characterised by commitment, motivation and energy.
Flexibility - adapts and works effectively with a variety of situations, individuals or groups. Able to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue, to adapt an approach as the requirements of a situation change, and to change or easily accept changes in one’s own organisation or job requirements.
Creative Thinking - able to transform creative ideas into practical reality. Can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative solutions.
Strategic thinking – able to identify a vision along with the plans which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term.
Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically.

Leadership Competencies
Leading creativity – fosters imagination, creativity and experimentation, takes and promotes considered risks, celebrates creative successes and learns from failure, shows openness to alternative ways of doing things.
Developing talent and diversity – coaches others to build on strengths and improve on weakness, gives and listens to regular, honest feedback, grows the ORGANISATION’s new leaders, recruits and develops talent from a diverse range of backgrounds, connects with people from all parts of society.

Managing performance – sets challenging team and individual objectives and trusts people to get on with them, shares clear expectations about required performance levels, rewards success and addresses performance issues quickly and fairly, treats team members with honesty, respect and compassion.
Collaborating across boundaries – challenges systems, processes and people that block collaboration, connects people, ideas, processes and issues, sets an example by sharing resources, knowledge ideas and skills across the organisation, builds helpful, productive relationships across the organisation.
Providing direction through change – is open to change and responds flexibly to new challenges, shares and communicates the ORGANISATION’s vision with passion and clarity, articulates a compelling case for change, provides momentum when driving change, involves others in building plans for change
Maximising business effectiveness – provides the best value by sharing our resources across the ORGANISATION, looks for value for money for licence payers, sets realistic budgets and manages them effectively, considers the business implications of decisions, avoids waste and challenges under use of resources.
Using external thinking – builds bridges with useful organisations and innovative thinkers, keeps up to date with developments in their field, responds to the demands of our commercial environment, relishes feedback and responds honestly to what our audiences and customers have to say, whether likes it or not
Living the ORGANISATION Values – sets high standards for the world’s most trusted broadcaster, demonstrates a passionate commitment to the ORGANISATION’s brand values and keeps up to date with public opinion, admits mistakes when we make them and takes appropriate action, takes responsibility for building trust in the ORGANISATION, deals fairly with suppliers, contributors and members of the public

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Head of Mobile Platforms Job Description