Head of ICT & Digital Services
Posted 7 days ago by Network IT Recruitment
£120,000 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
West Midlands, UK
Summary: The Head of ICT & Digital Services is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving a comprehensive digital, data, and technology transformation within a large organization. This fixed-term position aims to enhance digital capabilities and ICT service performance by April 2028. The role requires orchestrating complex organizational changes and ensuring robust governance and service delivery. The successful candidate will lead significant transformation initiatives while managing substantial budgets and fostering relationships with senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership for all ICT, 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 ICT 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
Key Skills:
- Significant senior leadership experience within ICT in large, complex organisations
- Demonstrable experience across both public and private sector environments
- Proven track record of leading and directing major organisational transformation programmes, including: Mergers and acquisitions, Multi-site/multi-organisation outsourcing or insourcing
- Proven capability in orchestrating complex, enterprise-wide change programmes
- Strong commercial, financial and strategic capability
- Experience leading geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams
- Outstanding communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility at executive and board level
- Relevant professional accreditation (eg Chartered IT Professional or equivalent), or commitment to achieve
Salary (Rate): £140,000 yearly
City: West Midlands
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Head of ICT & Digital Services - Fixed Term
An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an experienced and strategically minded Head of ICT & Digital to lead the delivery of an enterprise-wide digital, data and technology transformation programme within a large, complex organisation.
This is a fixed-term appointment to April 2028, with a clearly defined outcome: to design, mobilise and deliver a step-change in digital capability, operating model, and ICT service performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for all ICT, 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 ICT 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
Candidate Profile
- Significant senior leadership experience within ICT in large, complex organisations
- Demonstrable experience across both public and private sector environments
- Proven track record of leading and directing major organisational transformation programmes, including:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Multi-site/multi-organisation outsourcing or insourcing
- Proven capability in orchestrating complex, enterprise-wide change programmes
- Strong commercial, financial and strategic capability
- Experience leading geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams
- Outstanding communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility at executive and board level
- Relevant professional accreditation (eg Chartered IT Professional or equivalent), or commitment to achieve
Benefits
- £120,000 - £140,000 + Senior Benefits Package