Head of Business Systems

• Job Reference: nnltd8747-a
• Date Posted: 1 February 2022
• Recruiter: Nanotek Ltd
  
• Location: Camberley
• Remote Working: Some remote working possible
• Salary: 75,000 to 80,000
• Sector: Engineering, I.T., Telecoms
• Job Type: Permanent
• Work Hours: Full Time
• Contact: Jim Walsh
• Email:
  

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Job Description

Candidate Criteria:

* Head of Business Systems

* Software Manager

* Budget and financial management experience

• A proven track record of operating at Head of IT/Business Systems level.
• Experience of end to end systems development.
• A track record of setting and delivering strategies to support business growth.
• Able to demonstrate gravitas with the senior leadership team with strong and effective communication skills.
• Able to assess and identify ideas and deliver solutions
• Commercial acumen and credibility.
• Experience delivering solutions which improve processes and working practices, not just technology.
• Project management experience
• Business Relationship Management Experience
• Budget and financial management experience
• Experience with CRM (ideally Salesforce), and financial ERP solutions.

Job Role:

• Lead and manage business systems for the company.
• Ensure that IT and other business systems and processes are robust and flexible and are scalable to support business growth.
• Own relationships with key external systems providers through whole life cycle (tender, onboarding, governance, performance management, disengagement etc).
• Continually assess and improve the adequacy of business systems in terms of governance, compliance in areas such as cyber security, GDPR, resilience, performance standards.
• Ensure the systems portfolio is aligned to business objectives, and business need is supported in a timely way.
• In collaboration with business stakeholders, lead the evaluation and adoption of digital business enhancements to ensure the provision of a competitive and, over time, leading set of services and user-experience in the sector – benchmark, market-test and measure to ensure delivery of value and customer attractiveness.
• Ensure continuous and measurable improvement of solutions quality and speed-to-value – driving the adoption of QA upstream and Agile methods.
• Lead and be responsible for audit, cybersecurity and other reviews of business systems, balancing minimising risk with affordability.
• Lead and ensure effective and efficient and compliant management of business systems operations • Collaboratively manage the business systems team, ensuring sound objectives, performance, innovation and professional and personal development, and ensuring capability and capacity is matched to business need and affordability.
• Manage and lead the development teams, ensuring that the digital project plans are robust and of high quality.
• Provide visible, respectful leadership across the department - mentor IT team members.