Senior Senior Modern Digital Workplace SpecialistWorkplace Specialist

Req Id:  24429
Job Family:  IT Solutions Delivery
Location: 

Porto, PT, 4100-136

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Description: 

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact.  Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

As a Senior Modern Digital Workplace Specialist, you will help employees work effectively, confidently, and collaboratively through a modern, inclusive, and user-centred digital workplace. As a trusted subject-matter expert, you will bring depth of knowledge and sound judgement to improve how people experience technology at work.

Combining expertise, empathy, and a strong user focus, you will make technology more accessible and support sustainable ways of working across a global, hybrid organisation, strengthening productivity, collaboration, and innovation.

Responsibilities

- Contribute expert input to the Modern Digital Workplace strategy and roadmap, advising the Team Lead on Digital Employee Experience (DEX), technology, digital adoption, collaboration, change, and emerging technologies.
- Manage initiatives, resources, budgets, business cases, dependencies, risks, and investments with minimal supervision.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, stakeholders, vendors, and consultants, ensuring accountability and alignment, partnering with HR, Learning & Development, and Communications to embed digital literacy and upskilling across the employee lifecycle.
- Implement change and adoption, including engagement, communications, readiness, campaigns, learning, communities, and post-launch support.
- Produce reports, presentations, learning materials, user guides, and content to guide employees and colleagues in effective hybrid use of workplace technologies and deliver initiatives that strengthen digital literacy and autonomy.
- Lead communities and champion governed citizen development, low-code/no-code, IT self-service, automation, and AI-enabled assistance.
- Propose and report SMART KPIs for adoption, engagement, service, employee experience, productivity, and value; report insights and direct improvements.
- Assess digital workplace technology trends and provide informed recommendations on opportunities, risks, and investments.

Education

 - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Digital Transformation, Organizational Psychology, Communication, Human Resources, Change Management, Education or a related field – or equivalent professional experience.
- Experienced with Microsoft 365, low-code platforms, and modern workplace tools, including associated Admin Centers.
- Intermediate understanding of Project Management principles and practices.
- Advanced understanding of Change Management principles and practices (Prosci ADKAR preferred).
- Advanced written and spoken English proficiency (minimum CEFR C1 or equivalent).
- Knowledge of storytelling and how to make high impact presentations. 
- Knowledge of Design Thinking and/or Service Design principles.

Experience

 - 3+ years of experience in modern workplace technology, digital transformation, change management, or employee experience roles.
- Experience providing support and training to end-users of digital applications as part of digital adoption programs.
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders across all levels.  

Functional Competencies

Analytics and reporting
Business Partnering
Change Management
Digital savvy
Governance, Risk and Control
IT Tools and application
Project Management
Negotiation

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.  All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.