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Head of IT (Interim)

Posted: 06/07/26
Recruiter:Network IT
Reference:3134190490
Type:Permanent
Disciplines: Chief Technical Officer
Salary:£580 Daily
Location:West Midlands
Description: 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.

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