Senior Manager, Power Platform & Robotics

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Power Platform & Robotics

LOCATIONS: Bristol / London

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What You’ll Be Doing

We’re looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Power Platform and Robotics capability, bringing together low-code application development, workflow automation, Copilot Studio and robotic process automation using Blue Prism. You’ll set the direction for the capability, shaping the strategy, roadmap and delivery of a secure, resilient and value-led automation portfolio aligned to business priorities and our wider technology strategy.

You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team across Power Platform and Blue Prism, delivering scalable automation solutions that create measurable value for our customers, colleagues and business.

Key Accountabilities:

• Set the strategy, roadmap and operating model for Power Platform and Robotics, aligning investment and delivery priorities to business needs and measurable outcomes.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team across Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio and Blue Prism, building technical capability, succession and a high-performing, inclusive culture.
• Own the automation portfolio, balancing demand, capacity, risk, dependencies and expected value to set clear delivery priorities.
• Provide senior technical and design leadership, ensuring solutions are scalable, accessible, secure, resilient and aligned to enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Oversee the end-to-end automation lifecycle, from discovery and process assessment through design, build and testing to release, live service and continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective operation of the Blue Prism digital workforce, including production scheduling, resilience, exception management, monitoring and service performance.
• Own governance and controls across Power Platform, AI-enabled automation and RPA, covering technology risk, security, data, operational resilience and Responsible AI.
• Build trusted senior relationships across business and technology, translating complex requirements into clear options, priorities and decisions.
• Drive engineering quality and reuse through common standards, patterns and components, with effective environment and release management.
• Shape and manage the future capability, overseeing key platform and supplier relationships, contributing to licence, commercial, budget and resource decisions, and advancing low-code, AI and intelligent automation.

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience leading technology, automation or digital delivery teams in a complex enterprise or regulated environment, including leadership of managers and technical specialists.
• Strong Microsoft Power Platform experience, including Power Apps and Power Automate, with a track record of delivering low-code, workflow automation or application portfolios.
• Strong practical understanding of RPA and digital workforce operations, ideally using Blue Prism, including development standards, scheduling, queues, exception management and production support.
• Proven ability to turn business strategy and operational challenges into prioritised roadmaps, solution options and clear business outcomes.
• Ability to govern solutions across the end-to-end lifecycle, from design and build through testing, implementation and live service, with a strong understanding of change, release and service management.
• Strong understanding of technology risk and controls, including information security, data, operational resilience, auditability and Responsible AI.
• Excellent influencing and communication skills at senior levels, with the ability to explain complex technical and risk considerations clearly and constructively challenge decisions.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, with experience of areas such as budgets, licences, suppliers, delivery capacity or investment cases.

Any experience of these would be great

• Leading a Centre of Excellence, platform team, automation hub or federated delivery model.
• Integrating Power Platform and RPA with APIs, data services, AI or legacy applications to deliver automation solutions.
• Establishing reusable components, automation standards or environment strategies across a low-code or automation estate.
• Experience of Copilot Studio or broader AI-enabled automation.

This Is A Place For You

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to do the best work of your career? Apply today!