At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead IT transformation and drive digital change in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking organisation in the West Midlands undergoing significant change.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate of £580, with opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with senior leaders and influence key decisions in a supportive team.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the future of IT and digital capabilities.
- Qualifications: Proven IT leadership experience in complex transformation programmes.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Network IT is currently recruiting for a Head of IT, to join our client in the West Midlands on a 12 month contract assignment. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced IT leader to join a client undergoing wide scale organisational change, and support our client through what will be a complex IT, Digital and Data transformation.
Our client is looking for an excellent communicator, who can lead an IT department, whilst also balancing the challenge of influencing non-technical stakeholders through key decisions. This is a day rate contract role, with a goal in the 12 months to drive forwards transformation across IT and the wider business, work on the future operating model to enable digital capability and IT performance.
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: £580 per day
Status: Inside IR35
Working Practice: 3 to 5 days onsite
Location: West Midlands
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic / operational leadership, and direction for IT, digital and data.
- Line management of 5 IT leadership FTE’s in ICT operations, architecture, applications, infrastructure and service delivery.
- Support the leadership on developing and executing a defined transformation programme, against budget and within set timelines.
- Orchestrate complex organisational change, aligning technology, people, processes and governance.
- Ensure cyber resilience, robust data governance and secure service delivery.
- Manage significant revenue budgets and capital investment aligned to transformation objectives.
- Build and nurture relationships across senior leadership, stakeholders and users within the business.
Key Skills:
- Demonstratable background of operating as an IT leader / Head of IT, within complex transformation programmes.
- Proven experience across both public and private sector environments.
- A background in leading IT departments through complex change, such as Mergers / Acquisitions / Insourcing / Outsourcing / Target Operating Model change.
- Proven capability in orchestrating complex, enterprise-wide change programmes.
- Strong commercial, financial and strategic capability.
- The ability to influence senior stakeholders, and lead teams, able to translate complex requirements for non-technical stakeholders.
