The opportunity ✨

This is a key role in shaping how our colleagues experience technology every day. As our Digital Workplace & Microsoft Platforms Manager/Lead, you’ll take ownership of the Microsoft estate across IAG Loyalty, setting its direction while staying close enough to the technology to know what is really happening on the ground.

You’ll lead the transformation and ongoing improvement of Microsoft 365, Entra, endpoint and device management, collaboration, identity, security and emerging productivity capabilities such as Copilot. You’ll own the workspace management roadmap, make sure services are secure, resilient and fit for the future, and lead major projects through to successful delivery and stable operation.

This is not a role where you’ll simply manage through others. You’ll lead a blended team of internal colleagues, contractors and strategic partners, but you’ll also be expected to roll up your sleeves, challenge technical decisions, get into the detail when needed and take personal ownership when something needs fixing. You’ll work across Technology, Security, Data Protection and the wider business, balancing colleague experience, risk, cost and delivery to make sure our Microsoft investment genuinely adds value.

There’s also an opportunity to shape how the function develops over time, including the potential for the service desk to move into this area in the future.

What You’ll Be Doing 🚀

You’ll own the technical direction, roadmap and operational performance of our Digital Workplace and Microsoft platform estate, combining strategic leadership with hands-on involvement.

You’ll lead a blended team of internal specialists, contractors and strategic partners, making sure there is clear accountability across the service. You’ll drive the workspace management roadmap, lead major Microsoft and workplace technology programmes, and step in early when delivery, quality, resourcing or supplier performance is at risk.

You’ll act as a technical authority across the estate, working across Microsoft 365, Entra, Intune, Defender, Purview, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange Online, endpoint management and identity governance. You won’t need to be the deepest specialist in every platform, but you will need the technical credibility to challenge architecture and security decisions, set standards and get into the detail when required.

You’ll also help us improve how workplace technology is operated, using automation, telemetry and AI-enabled approaches to make services more proactive, improve colleague experience and reduce avoidable manual effort. Alongside this, you’ll own key commercial and operational decisions across budgets, licences, managed services and strategic suppliers.