Head of IT (Interim)

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 IT
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: £580 per day
Status: Inside IR35
Working 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.

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.