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Senior Consultant Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation - Zoetermeer

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What are you going to do as Senior consultant digital transformation?

All colleagues at Highberg contribute to digital transformations for our clients through their specific expertise. As a Senior digital transformation consultant, you adopt an integrated perspective and approach. You are a strategist, information analyst, and facilitator all at once.

In this role, you provide advice on strategic initiatives: you assist with strategy development, organize its implementation, or both. Stakeholder and change management are crucial in this process. Your task is to engage and facilitate employees at all levels of the client organization as they undergo a digital transformation. You will navigate between strategic, tactical, and operational levels. You help organizations strengthen their operations by guiding them through their digital transformation and assisting them in developing the skills needed to manage it. This includes:

• at the strategic level: defining the strategy to achieve a digital transformation
• at the tactical level: shaping the strategy by making decisions regarding the deployment and use of (new) digital technology, in collaboration with the client and
• at the operational level: implementing (new) digital technology and developing the new skills required

As a Senior digital transformation consultant, you provide advice at a broad level, analyze specific issues and their implications for the client, monitor technological trends, and guide change processes.

Do you get energized by making a societal impact with sustainable results? Join Highberg and help our clients realize digital transformations.

"Our constant challenge is to provide relevant, understandable, and critical advice that is practically applicable within an organization. This way, we help our clients take a step further in their societal tasks and goals every day."

Thijs Bakker, Senior digital strategy consultant at Highberg

Thijs has over 8 years of experience in shaping and realizing innovation and digital strategies for clients. Thijs' expertise lies in guiding and advising on critical decisions around digital transformation, strategy, and architecture. In recent years, he has done this for various large, complex (semi-)government organizations such as the Ministry of Justice and Security, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, ProRail, the Senate, NATO, ICTU, Brabant Water, and the UWV.

Examples of projects you will carry out as Senior consultant digital transformation

• You develop an inspiring yet achievable vision and strategy for digitalization within a housing association, map out the necessary portfolio for a client, ensure ownership within the organization, and act as a trailblazer for the initial execution of projects.
• You map out the customer journeys of an operational organization, identify bottlenecks, and provide recommendations on how digital technology can help. You then design the underlying processes and their interaction with IT in a uniform manner, make recommendations for improvements, and implement them step by step, serving as an advisor and coach.
• You develop a strategy and approach for (digital) customer interaction for a municipality with a multichannel approach and guide pilots to achieve initial improvements.
• You facilitate a series of workshops on digital innovation for a retailer, jointly define business cases for innovation using modern technologies such as AI and Digital Twins, and assist the retailer in developing a working method that allows them to innovate alongside their daily operations.
• You assist a ministry in developing a framework for data governance and initiate the transformation towards working in accordance with this framework by setting up a community of and for employees, communicating the framework in an inspiring and accessible way, and jointly implementing the approach with initial use cases.

What is our vision on digital transformation?

For us, digital transformation is a fundamental, multi-year change for organizations, involving the use of digital technology and new ways of working. Experimentation, innovation, flexibility, and scaling are central to this process. Digital transformation requires a strategy that prioritizes customer needs and changing circumstances, and invests in digital technologies and skills from an integrated approach. Through digital transformation, organizations can deliver more value, improve customer and employee satisfaction, and increase efficiency.

What are we asking?

• A smart, driven professional with 7+ years of relevant work experience in consulting and/or change management in the field of digitalization

• A completed HBO (Bachelor's) or WO (Master's) degree

• Excellent command of both Dutch and English, in spoken and written communication

Who are you?

• You have a broad interest in digital technology and are intrinsically motivated to delve into specific topics in this field, keep up with developments, and share this knowledge with colleagues

• You enjoy contributing to sales and marketing activities, such as developing propositions, writing proposals, and organizing client events

• You possess strong conceptual thinking skills and have a results-oriented mindset

• You are flexible and don't mind occasionally traveling to clients or having team meetings in the evening (don't worry, there's always good food and drinks provided!))

What are we offering?

• A competitive salary and excellent benefits including performance pay, provisions for mobility, pension and leave

• Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to and wide range of education and training and a personal development plan with matching investments

• A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, you have the autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly with short lines of communication with colleagues

• A pleasant working environment with a pleasant and easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team and not on the individual and numerous social activities such as get-togethers, sports activities and team meetings

About the team

At Highberg, we are proactive, positive, and enjoy working together. We aim to keep learning, and we love to share our knowledge with colleagues, clients, and peers. That's why we regularly organize content-focused masterclasses and training sessions within your team. We are critical of the content and can engage in a great discussion from multiple perspectives. During a discussion, we are understanding of each other's viewpoints, and afterward, we enjoy a drink together! We communicate well within our organization, which fosters quick and open communication with doors always open. This contributes to Highberg's accessible and pleasant culture. Additionally, we value having a good time together. We regularly take time to catch up within our team, and we organize fun outings so that we can get to know each other better in a relaxed atmosphere.

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