An fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced and strategically minded Head of IT and Digital, to lead an IT Team in what will be multi-year transformation programme within a large, complex organisation. This will be an interim role, expected to be initially contracted for 9 to 12 months, with a range of challenges, but boiling down to supporting an organisation to work their way through an enterprise-wide transformation programme.The work will affect the organisational structure, ways of working and IT estate. Our client is looking for a very specific profile fit for this role, so please review the details below! Role: Head of IT and Digital Duration: TBC - expected to be 9-12 monthsRate: TBC Status: Inside IR35Location: WarwickWorking Practice: 3-5 days per week onsite, dependent on requirementsKey Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for IT, digital and data services
- Lead the development and execution of a defined transformation programme, delivering against agreed outcomes, timelines and benefits
- Orchestrate complex organisational change, aligning technology, people, processes and governance
- Ensure cyber resilience, robust data governance and secure service delivery
- Oversee teams responsible for IT operations, architecture, applications, infrastructure and service delivery
- Manage significant revenue budgets and capital investment aligned to transformation objectives
- Build effective relationships across senior leadership, partners and delivery stakeholders
Essential Criteria - Candidate Profile:
- Proven history in Head of IT/Data or IT Director level roles (not Programme Management as a Programme Manager will be appointed separately)
- Demonstrable experience across both public and private sector environments
- Proven track record of leading and directing major organisational transformation programmes, such as M&A activity, Multi-site/multi-organisation outsourcing or insourcing
- Proven capability in orchestrating complex, enterprise-wide change programmes
- Strong commercial, financial and strategic capability (Budget management of around £20-30million)
- Experience leading geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams
- Outstanding communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility at executive and board level
- Able to communicate the technical challenges in IT, to non-technical stakeholders
