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Head of Strategy and Consulting

itecopeople
Posted 21 hours ago, valid for 5 days
Location

London, Greater London SW1A2DX, England

Salary

£90,000 - £100,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position of Head of Strategy and Consulting requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in consultancy or enterprise architecture, preferably within the Social Housing sector.
  • This role involves collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to address challenges and define an IT strategy that aligns with business goals.
  • The successful candidate will manage a team of 8 consultants and enterprise architects, fostering strong relationships and driving innovation within the organization.
  • The offered salary is approximately £100,000 per annum, commensurate with experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.
  • This is a permanent, full-time role that allows for hybrid working, requiring at least three days a week in the London office.
Head of Strategy and Consulting.

What's it all about?

Working for an amazing organisation, you will be 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 using your strong communication skills you will be 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
  • Engagement - 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 their expertise, rather than just waiting for instructions.

Essential knowledge, experience and skills including qualifications and professional membership
  • Experience of working within Social Housing is essential
  • You have significant experience (5+ years) gained delivering consultancy or enterprise architecture.
  • You have also led or established a consultancy function, ideally within an end client.
  • 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

What's on offer?

Remuneration: A competitive base salary c100,000 pa subject to experience with a strong benefits package.
Location: Hybrid 3 days a week in their London office, rest remote working.
Start,: ASAP client will wait for the right person.
Duration: Permanent full-time role.

If of interest please send your CV to Simon at (url removed) with a note explaining why you are interested in, and a fit for, this role.

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