We’re looking for a Global Infrastructure & Network Leader to lead the delivery and evolution of core technology infrastructure across the organisation, ensuring secure, resilient and high-performing services that enable business continuity and growth.
In this role, you’ll shape how infrastructure and network services are designed, delivered and modernised, supporting the transition to scalable, cloud-based environments while maintaining operational stability.
You’ll play a critical role in leading a global team, working closely with business, technology and security stakeholders to ensure infrastructure services align with organisational priorities and future demand.
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Defining and delivering the roadmap for infrastructure and application migration to the cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience and cost efficiency.
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Overseeing the delivery of secure, reliable infrastructure services that support business operations.
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Ensuring infrastructure is compliant with regulatory and security standards across all regions.
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Partnering with information security teams to align infrastructure and networking services with evolving security requirements.
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Managing hybrid infrastructure environments, ensuring seamless integration and optimised performance across on-premise and cloud platforms.
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Working closely with business stakeholders to align infrastructure services with changing business needs.
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Driving automation, monitoring and best practices to improve efficiency, reliability and performance.
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Managing vendor and third-party relationships to ensure service delivery, performance and innovation.
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Leading responses to critical incidents, ensuring rapid recovery and robust disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
You’re an experienced infrastructure leader with a strong background in global IT operations, including hybrid and cloud environments. You bring a balance of strategic thinking and operational expertise, ensuring infrastructure services are scalable, secure and aligned to business needs.
You’re confident leading distributed teams, building capability and driving performance across complex environments.
You’re a strong collaborator, able to work across technology, security and business functions to deliver resilient and future-ready infrastructure solutions.
This Role Would Suit:
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An infrastructure or network leader with experience managing global or multi-region operations.
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Someone who has delivered large-scale infrastructure transformation, including cloud migration and hybrid environments.
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A strategic thinker who can align infrastructure capability with business growth and resilience.
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A people-focused leader who can build high-performing, globally distributed teams.
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Someone motivated by delivering secure, reliable and scalable technology foundations that enable business success.
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
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Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
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Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
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Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
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Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
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Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
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Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
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Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
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Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
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Learning resources to help you be your best self.
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
