Head of Strategy and Consulting
3 days ago
London
Head of Strategy and Consulting. What’s it all about? You are accountable for consulting with business stakeholders to better understand their challenges and aims, whilst working with the wider IT team to define solutions and an underpinning IT Strategy to support business ambitions. How You’ll Make a Difference By building strong and collaborative relationships with business and IT stakeholders. How You’ll Do It • Building and growing trusted, productive relationships with business and IT stakeholders, • Developing a strong knowledge and understanding of their business and customers., • Providing pragmatic consultancy to the business, focused on value, cost and viability, • Managing and facilitating the maintenance of an IT Strategy which underpins their goals, • Ensuring enterprise architecture is aligned to support and enable their business strategy, and govern its evolution, • Curating innovation watch list, recognising business opportunities to evaluate their value through business focused trials., • Setting the direction for, and managing, a team of consultants and enterprise architects, • Hybrid working - at least three days a week in the main office., • This role is at a manager level. You will be responsible for a team of 8. All About You Behaviours for success • Compassionate - sympathetic to the needs of customers and business users, • Progressive - innovative and forward thinking in the use of technology to solve business problems, • Dependable - stakeholders see you as their first port of call to share problems and ideas, • Inclusive - ensure that appropriate IS&C resources are involved in defining strategy and solution options, • Empowered - you take proactive ownership of challenges, drive solutions, and confidently make recommendations based on ytheir expertise, rather than just waiting for instructions. Essential knowledge, experience and skills including qualifications and professional membership • You are educated to degree level, • You have significant experience (5+ years) gained delivering consultancy or enterprise architecture, • You have also led or established a consultancy function., • Strong and wide knowledge of current and emerging applications and technologies, • Strong relationship building, influence and persuasion skills, • Track record in championing successful innovation within an organisation Whats on offer? A competitive base salary c£95,000 pa subject to experience with a strong benefits package. If of interest please send you CV to Simon at with a note explaining why you are interested in, and a fit for this role. Services Advertised are those of an Employment Agency.