Head of Estates DigitalUniversity

About the Role

Queen Mary University of London is seeking an ambitious, innovative Head of Estates Digital to lead the strategic development of digital systems, data, analytics, and technology across the Estates and Facilities Directorate.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Digital, Sustainability and Space Management, you will provide strategic leadership for the university's estates systems portfolio, data governance, business intelligence and digital transformation agenda. You will lead the ongoing development of the Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) and wider digital estate ecosystem, ensuring data, technology and analytics support operational excellence, compliance, sustainability and evidence-based decision-making.

Working closely with colleagues across Estates and Facilities, IT Services and the wider university, you will identify opportunities to leverage automation, artificial intelligence, smart building technologies and advanced analytics to improve performance and enhance the campus experience. You will also lead a specialist team responsible for estates systems, data analytics and business intelligence, driving innovation and continuous improvement across the directorate.

About You

You will be a strategic, collaborative leader with substantial experience delivering digital transformation, systems development, data governance, analytics, or business intelligence within a complex organisation. You will have a proven ability to develop digital strategies, lead high-performing teams and influence stakeholders at all levels.

You will possess excellent communication skills and be able to translate complex technical and analytical concepts into clear, actionable insights. Experience of enterprise systems, technology suppliers, reporting platforms such as Power BI, and data-driven service improvement is essential. Experience within Estates, Facilities, Property, Infrastructure, Public Sector or Higher Education environments would be advantageous.

About the Directorate

The Estates and Facilities Directorate is one of the largest professional services directorates within the university, responsible for providing safe, sustainable and effective environments that support learning, research and student wellbeing. For further information, please visit www.qmul.ac.uk/estates.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

£65,618 to £73,271 per annum.