Summary: The Head of IT role is a 12-month contract position based in the West Midlands, aimed at an experienced IT leader to guide a client through significant organizational change and a complex IT, Digital, and Data transformation. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the IT department, managing a team, and influencing non-technical stakeholders. This role requires excellent communication skills and strategic leadership to drive transformation initiatives. The position is classified as inside IR35 and requires a mix of on-site work.
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.
Salary (Rate): £580 Daily
City: West Midlands
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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.Role: Head of ITDuration: 12 MonthsRate: £580 per dayStatus: Inside IR35Working 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.
- 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.