Functional Advisory Lead – CIO Advisory

NRB; Luik; Sur place; EUR 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

KEYES is seeking an experienced senior IT strategy advisor to work across a portfolio of client engagements in Belgium and Europe. You will translate business ambitions into coherent IT blueprints, align IT priorities with business goals and drive transformation programs at CIO level.

You will shape roadmaps, quantify impact and risk, and deliver high‑quality advisory engagements. Fluency in French, Dutch and English is required, with a strong business development drive.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of senior advisory experience with CIOs
• IT strategy, roadmaps and target architectures expertise
• Ability to define IT blueprints with business alignment
• Proven CIO/C-level stakeholder management
• Fluent in French, Dutch and English

Responsabilités

• Lead IT strategy engagements across client portfolios.
• Develop and defend IT roadmaps and blueprints.
• Advise CIOs on governance, investments and IT architecture.
• Contribute to proposals and business development.
• Coach junior consultants and shape new advisory opportunities.

Connaissances

IT strategy

IT architecture

Stakeholder management

Business development

CIO advisory

Executive communication

Description du poste

Job Description

Join KEYES and give meaning to your talent. KEYES supports private and public organisations across Belgium and Europe in their digital transformation by combining business expertise, technological excellence, and a long‑term vision. In this role you will operate across a portfolio of client engagements, facing recurring strategic challenges and contributing to business development.

For more information: www.keyes.eu

Responsibilities

• Help client CIOs translate business ambitions into coherent IT blueprints – applications, data, integration and infrastructure.
• Align business and IT priorities, arbitrating between competing demands and building a shared transformation agenda.
• Identify and assess strategic scenarios (build/buy, modernisation, sourcing, cloud) and quantify their impact and risk.
• Formalise pragmatic, sequenced roadmaps that client CIOs can defend to their executive committees and boards.
• Mature KEYES’s CIO advisory methodologies, tools and assets to deliver consistent, high‑quality engagements at scale.
• Act as a trusted sparring partner to client CIOs on IT strategy, governance and major investment decisions.
• Define and structure IT blueprints that connect the client’s business strategy with its application, data and infrastructure landscape.
• Integrate business and IT challenges into a coherent narrative, surfacing trade‑offs and dependencies leaders need to arbitrate.
• Formalise clear, sequenced and defensible roadmaps based on business cases, TCO and value quantification.
• Bring credibility and authority in C‑level conversations, challenging and convincing senior stakeholders with substance.
• Oversee delivery of IT strategy engagements across clients, safeguarding quality, coherence and impact.
• Develop and continually improve KEYES’s CIO advisory methodologies, frameworks, templates and reusable assets.
• Activate and coordinate the right KEYES experts at the right time, ensuring consistency across workstreams and engagements.
• Coach and upskill KEYES consultants, embedding the methodologies and raising the bar on advisory deliverables.
• Detect and shape new advisory opportunities within and beyond existing client relationships.
• Contribute to proposals and scoping, translating client needs into compelling, well‑structured advisory offers.
• Build trusted, lasting relationships with client CIOs and their leadership teams, positioning KEYES as the go‑to advisor.
• Represent KEYES’s CIO advisory point of view externally, building the firm’s reputation and pipeline.
• Develop thought leadership – points of view, publications and speaking engagements – that build KEYES’s visibility and intellectual capital in CIO advisory.

Qualifications

• A proven senior advisor with 15+ years of experience and the credibility and presence to convince and challenge CIOs and executive committees.
• IT strategy expertise: experience defining IT blueprints, target architectures and roadmaps, and integrating business and IT challenges.
• Technical expertise in IT architecture and blueprint design: solid command of application, data, integration and infrastructure architecture, and the ability to design, document and defend IT blueprints with technical depth and credibility.
• Methodology development: ability to formalise, structure and continuously improve advisory methodologies, frameworks and deliverables.
• Stakeholder management at CIO/C‑level: comfortable in strategic conversations, diplomatic and firm, with a strong business development drive.
• Languages: fluent French, Dutch and English required.