Chief Information Officer

Digital Delivered; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Delivered is leading a confidential executive search for a Chief Information Officer to shape the technology agenda and drive a significant digital transformation in a manufacturing business in the United Kingdom.

The role requires a commercially minded technology leader with hands-on experience in complex carve-outs, ensuring continuity and transforming people, processes, data and systems to deliver measurable operational impact.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in complex manufacturing operations.
• Experience disentangling systems, data and supplier arrangements during carve-outs.
• Track record delivering substantial digital and business change across technology, operating models and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Shape technology strategy around business performance, resilience and growth.
• Lead change across enterprise apps, manufacturing systems, infrastructure and data.
• Ensure disciplined investment governance with measurable benefits.
• Strengthen IT and operational technology alignment with clear continuity and cyber resilience.
• Build and develop capability within teams and manage delivery partners.
• Establish governance for transformation programmes with sustained adoption.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Carve-outs experience

Digital transformation

Executive stakeholder management

Job description

UK based | Confidential executive search

Lead technology. Shape business change. Deliver lasting operational impact.

We are supporting a manufacturing business in the appointment of a Chief Information Officer to shape its technology agenda and lead significant business and digital transformation.

This opportunity calls for a commercially minded technology leader who understands manufacturing, has navigated complex carve-outs and can turn strategic ambition into practical change across people, processes, data and systems.

You will bring the judgement to modernise the business while maintaining the reliability and continuity on which operations depend.

The opportunity

Working closely with senior business leaders, you will connect technology investment with operational priorities and establish a clear, achievable transformation roadmap.

Your focus will include:

• Shaping technology strategy around business performance, resilience and future growth.
• Leading complex change across enterprise applications, manufacturing systems, infrastructure and data.
• Simplifying fragmented processes and technology environments, balancing common standards with operational needs.
• Strengthening the connection between enterprise IT and operational technology, with clear ownership of service continuity and cyber resilience.
• Building effective teams, developing capability and holding delivery partners accountable.
• Establishing disciplined investment and programme governance, with measurable benefits and sustained adoption.

Your experience

We are looking for an established CIO or equivalent senior technology executive with three essential elements in their background:

• Manufacturing: substantial leadership experience within complex manufacturing operations, with a practical understanding of production, engineering, supply chain and the wider value chain.
• Carve-outs: direct accountability for technology separation, including disentangling systems, data, services and supplier arrangements while protecting business continuity. Experience of transitional service agreements and establishing independent capabilities is particularly relevant.
• Major transformation: demonstrable delivery of substantial digital and business change, spanning technology, operating models, processes and organisational adoption.

You will also bring strong executive stakeholder skills, commercial and financial judgement, and experience leading distributed teams through uncertainty.

All enquiries will be handled discreetly.