Chief Digital Officer

MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre; Coventry; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) invites a visionary Chief Digital Officer to join the Executive Leadership Team and steer digital strategy across the organisation. You will translate technology investment into growth, resilience, and customer value, while maintaining technical depth in architecture, cyber security, data, AI and delivery.

You’ll shape corporate strategy, guide board-level decisions, and lead Digital Services across infrastructure, security, applications, and data

Qualifications

• Significant executive leadership experience across digital, technology and business transformation.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable growth and value through digital transformation.
• Ownership of enterprise-scale digital strategies and transformation programmes.
• Strong expertise in cyber security, data, AI and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver MTC's digital strategy at board level.
• Lead Digital Services across infrastructure, security, and enterprise applications.
• Ensure digital capability accelerates performance and growth.
• Represent MTC externally on digital transformation and innovation.
• Build a high-performing Digital Services function.
• Drive applied digital innovation in manufacturing and research.

Skills

Executive leadership

Digital strategy

Cyber security

Data & AI

Enterprise architecture

Governance

Commercial acumen

Job description

Chief Digital Officer

Could You Be MTC's Next Chief Digital Officer?

MTC is looking for an exceptional technology leader to join our Executive Leadership Team and help shape MTC’s direction.

The Vacancy

Chief Digital Officer

Could You Be MTC's Next Chief Digital Officer?

MTC is looking for an exceptional technology leader to join our Executive Leadership Team and help shape MTC’s direction.

We’re looking for someone who can translate technology investment into growth, productivity, resilience, and customer value, while positioning MTC as a recognised leader in applied digital innovation.

This is not a traditional technology leadership role; we're looking for a commercially minded executive who combines strategic business leadership with deep technical credibility. You’ll be confident operating at Board level, influencing customers, government, and strategic partners, as well as still bringing the technical depth to challenge decisions across architecture, cyber security, data, AI and digital delivery.

The Role

As Chief Digital Officer, you’ll define and deliver MTC's digital strategy, ensuring digital capability accelerates organisational performance, enables business growth and supports world-leading engineering, research, training, operations, and defence-related activities.

You’ll lead Digital Services across:

• Infrastructure and Operations
• Cyber Security and Information Assurance
• Enterprise Applications
• Service Delivery
• Digital Governance and Planning
• Data, AI and Automation

You'll own the value, security, resilience, and scalability of MTC's digital estate, as well as the effectiveness of the people, suppliers, and investments that underpin it.

As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will help shape corporate strategy and advise the Chief Executive, Executive Team and Board on digital opportunity, risk, investment and organisational readiness. You'll also represent MTC externally as a recognised industry leader in digital transformation, cyber security, AI and applied innovation.

What You'll Deliver

• Enabling measurable business growth through digital capability, stronger customer propositions, and improved delivery.
• Improving organisational productivity and decision-making through process redesign, automation, data, and responsible adoption of AI.
• Maintaining a cyber-secure, compliant and resilient operating environment
• Creating a coherent, scalable enterprise architecture and simplifying MTC's technology landscape.
• Delivering reliable, customer-focused digital services with clear accountability and continuous improvement.
• Building a high-performing Digital Services function
• Enhancing applied digital innovation across manufacturing, engineering, and research.

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking a Technology leader and AI led digital Innovator who’s used to working in a highly regulated, security conscious industry, such as defence, Financial Services, or Pharmaceuticals.

You’ll bring:

• Significant executive leadership experience across digital, technology and business transformation.
• A proven track record of delivering measurable business growth, productivity improvement and customer value through digital transformation.
• Ownership of enterprise-scale digital strategies, investment portfolios and transformation programmes.
• Leadership experience across cyber security, infrastructure, enterprise applications, service delivery, data, AI, architecture and governance.
• Strong expertise in cyber security, resilience, risk and information assurance.
• Practical experience of AI, data and emerging technologies, moving from experimentation to governed adoption and demonstrable business value.
• The credibility to influence Boards and communicate complex opportunities and risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong commercial and financial leadership, including investment planning, supplier management, business cases and benefits realisation.

As well as your strategic and technical capability, you’ll also be a strong people leader, with the ability to lead, develop, and mentor high-performing teams and build capability in scarce and emerging skill areas.

Why Join MTC?

This is a career-defining opportunity to shape the digital future of an organisation at the forefront of manufacturing, engineering, research and innovation.

You’ll influence strategy at the highest level, lead a critical transformation agenda and help ensure MTC remains at the cutting edge of digital capability, cyber resilience, AI adoption and applied innovation.

If you're a visionary digital leader with the commercial acumen, technical credibility and ambition to make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Please be aware that many roles working for MTC will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

All candidates must meet Right to Work in the UK criteria and achieve the required security and clearance requirements to undertake this role which will be shared with you upon application.

About The MTC

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.

The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.

Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.

Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future.

The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.

Reference Checks and Security Checks (where applicable)

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.