Chief Information Officer CIO

Chief Information Officer CIO

Birmingham Full-Time No home office possible
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Job Description

Your Role

As Chief Information Officer (CIO), you will join a highly dedicated and professional leadership team responsible for delivering high-quality services to a globally focused client base. Your primary mission will be to lead the transformation and modernization of the IT landscape-across technology, people, and processes-to enable and support the organization's ambitious growth objectives.

Key Responsibilities

You will play a pivotal role in aligning the company's technology strategy with its broader business goals. This transformation journey will focus on turning IT into a proactive business enabler, ensuring resilience, innovation, and scalability in both current operations and future initiatives.

  • Provide strategic direction for how technology enables business objectives
  • Ensure alignment between IT capabilities and evolving business needs
  • Manage IT budgets with a focus on cost-effectiveness and value creation
  • Lead IT infrastructure and operations to ensure stability, performance, and scalability
  • Build and maintain key strategic partnerships across the IT ecosystem
  • Oversee software development for both operational support and innovation projects
  • Deliver IT projects on time, within scope and budget, with measurable business value
  • Promote effective IT business partnering to meet strategic and operational goals
  • Oversee IT support services to ensure user satisfaction and responsiveness
  • Maintain a strong cybersecurity posture, compliance framework, and risk mitigation approach

Your Profile

  • Strong transformation mindset, with a clear preference for progress and innovation over maintaining the status quo
  • Proven leadership skills, with the ability to build and develop capable, empowered teams
  • Business-first thinker with a passion for solving real-world challenges using technology
  • Strategic mindset paired with a strong bias for execution
  • Transparent communicator with excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
  • Minimum of five years of general leadership experience
  • Solid background in working with or alongside technology; direct experience in an IT department is not required
  • Industry experience in logistics or shipping is not required
  • Fluent in English

We request that candidates send their CV as a Microsoft Word document where possible.

Quest Search and Selection is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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Chief Information Officer CIO
Quest Search and Selection Ltd
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