Head of IT
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
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Birmingham
West Midlands RegionUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 27 Jun 2022
- Closes
- 25 Jul 2022
- Job Title
- IT Director
- Category
- Marketing / Business Development
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Incredibly exciting opportunity to lead a talented IT function in Birmingham as a Head of IT. This is a global brand, paying GBP80,000 + car allowance + bonus + private healthcare and a 10% pension contribution. Hybrid working.
Develop a deep understanding of the business, it's processes, people, customers and suppliers, and analyse the requirements of all departments to understand their technology needs.
Develop and implement a technology roadmap to support the accelerating growth of the local business, ensuring consideration to broader Group IT strategy.
Define and embed IT performance management KPI's for the IT department and the overall organisation, ensuring that these can be monitored and communicated as required, covering both operational day to day activities as well as strategic plan achievement.
Develop a clear data and analytics strategy for the business to allow the organisation to easily leverage the information. The strategy will include consideration for appropriate data governance and technologies, and be built around the new organisational roadmap.
Drive a data first mindset in the organisation and implement technologies to improve the way we work (e.g. Data visualisation tools/techniques, Data–mining capabilities etc).
Identify and implement best–practice IT service delivery tools and processes to ensure optimised local IT service delivery.
Required Knowledge & Experience
Must have:
Proven academics: Degree qualified in technical discipline or equivalent
IT knowledge/Experience: Proven IT knowledge and experience in a cross–section of areas (I.e. Service Management, Infrastructure etc)
Experience of managing legacy systems and transitioning to up–to–date platforms
Proven experience of managing of IT projects, with recognised project management tools and techniques.
Ability to think beyond the technology and understand key business drivers that ensures technology investment will provide value
Ability to summarise complex technology problems and communicate key information and actions to the Senior Leadership Team.
Continuous improvement mindset
Excellent coaching, development, and staff engagement skills
Excellent communication and influencing skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Resilient, Self–aware and open to change
Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making
Proven track record of managing and delivering performance excellence
Develop a deep understanding of the business, it's processes, people, customers and suppliers, and analyse the requirements of all departments to understand their technology needs.
Develop and implement a technology roadmap to support the accelerating growth of the local business, ensuring consideration to broader Group IT strategy.
Define and embed IT performance management KPI's for the IT department and the overall organisation, ensuring that these can be monitored and communicated as required, covering both operational day to day activities as well as strategic plan achievement.
Develop a clear data and analytics strategy for the business to allow the organisation to easily leverage the information. The strategy will include consideration for appropriate data governance and technologies, and be built around the new organisational roadmap.
Drive a data first mindset in the organisation and implement technologies to improve the way we work (e.g. Data visualisation tools/techniques, Data–mining capabilities etc).
Identify and implement best–practice IT service delivery tools and processes to ensure optimised local IT service delivery.
Required Knowledge & Experience
Must have:
Proven academics: Degree qualified in technical discipline or equivalent
IT knowledge/Experience: Proven IT knowledge and experience in a cross–section of areas (I.e. Service Management, Infrastructure etc)
Experience of managing legacy systems and transitioning to up–to–date platforms
Proven experience of managing of IT projects, with recognised project management tools and techniques.
Ability to think beyond the technology and understand key business drivers that ensures technology investment will provide value
Ability to summarise complex technology problems and communicate key information and actions to the Senior Leadership Team.
Continuous improvement mindset
Excellent coaching, development, and staff engagement skills
Excellent communication and influencing skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Resilient, Self–aware and open to change
Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making
Proven track record of managing and delivering performance excellence