Senior IT Manager

Senior IT Manager - Folkestone (Hybrid) - £80,000 + Benefits - French Speaking

Our market-leading travel client now requires an experienced Senior IT Manager to play a key role in an ambitious digital transformation journey, acting as a strategic technology partner. As the Senior IT Manager, you will work closely with senior business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, proactively identify technology opportunities and translate business needs into new products, projects and capabilities.

The Senior IT Manager will own a significant technology portfolio and shape priorities, roadmaps and investment decisions while ensuring technology initiatives deliver genuine business value. The right candidate will be comfortable managing software development teams and have experience delivering both bespoke software and off-the-shelf technology solutions.

The role combines strategic business engagement, technology solution design, project and product creation, software development leadership and portfolio management.

Key Requirements:

• Fluent English and French - essential
• Strong IT leadership, technology business partnering, digital transformation or programme management experience.
• Proven experience managing complex technology portfolios.
• Experience managing software development teams and bespoke application delivery.
• Experience across both bespoke development and COTS/off-the-shelf technology.
• Strong senior stakeholder and business partnering skills.
• Experience managing suppliers, systems integrators, budgets and delivery partners.
• Technically credible, with the ability to engage effectively with development and architecture teams.
• Experience within B2C, travel, retail, airline, E-commerce or another customer-focused environment is highly desirable.
• Comfortable operating within a complex Matrix organisation and leading through influence.
• Full driving licence.

Location: Remote UK, with 1 day per week in Folkestone and 1 day per week in France. European travel expenses covered.

Salary: £80k + excellent benefits.

Please note: Business-level French is essential.