Group IT Director

Lorien; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Scotland is seeking a Group IT Director to shape strategy and lead a talented team. In this role, you will drive transformation initiatives and elevate the IT function while managing a modern, scalable technology stack. Experience in operationally complex environments and a strong governance mindset are essential. This role offers competitive salary and the chance to make a lasting impact. Flexible working arrangements available.

Qualifications

• Proven IT leader in multi-site environments.
• Experience in manufacturing, healthcare, or logistics is beneficial.
• Ability to communicate effectively at the board level.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy and influence decisions at the highest level.
• Guide a team through meaningful transformation.
• Elevate structure, maturity, and innovation within IT.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Strong governance

Leadership

Operational discipline

Innovation instinct

Tools

Dynamics 365 / Business Central

Power BI

Job description

Group IT Director
Location: Central Belt, Scotland
Onsite role: 5 days per week (flexibility where business allows)
Salary: Highly competitive - disclosed on application

The Role - Your Opportunity to Shape Something Bigger

Imagine stepping into a business at the perfect time, the foundations are strong, the technology stack is modern, the roadmap is already in motion, and the organisation is ready for someone who can turn capability into excellence.

A Group IT Director, you won't be fighting fires or rebuilding from scratch. You'll be taking an already solid environment and elevating it, driving structure, maturity, innovation and a leadership culture that brings people with you.

You’ll shape strategy, influence decisions at the highest level, and guide a talented team through a period of meaningful transformation, spanning ERP uplift, service quality, security, data, automation and AI.

This is a role where technology genuinely powers the next stage of growth, and you’ll be the leader bringing all the pieces together.

About You:

You're a proven IT leader who understands how to run and evolve technology in multi‑site, structured, operationally complex environments. You thrive where expectations are high and outcomes matter.

• strategic thinking and practical delivery
• strong governance and a growth mindset
• people, leadership and technical depth
• operational discipline and innovation instinct

You're "firm and fair", trusted at a senior level, and known for developing people while raising standards. You communicate clearly, influence easily, and make technology understandable at the board level.

Experience in manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, logistics, life sciences, distribution or other process‑driven environments would be highly beneficial, but what really matters is your ability to bring structure, foresight and leadership to a complex, fast‑moving organisation.

The Tech Stack You'll Lead (Modern, Scalable & Ready to Evolve)

You’ll inherit a technology environment that’s already in good shape, cloud‑first, secure and designed for scale, but with real opportunity to scale, standardise and innovate.

Core Platforms & Systems

• ERP estate based around Dynamics 365 / Business Central (with scope for optimisation, process improvement and stronger data governance)
• A blend of COTS platforms and proprietary systems, requiring a structured API strategy, integration governance and repeatable playbooks
• Modern endpoint management, identity and security aligned to enterprise standards

Data, BI & Analytics

• Significant appetite to shift from manual reporting to data warehousing, dashboards and analytics
• Strong opportunity to build a data platform that supports predictive, real‑time and strategic decision‑making
• Power BI / Fabric‑aligned direction (though flexible depending on your expertise)

AI & Automation

• Early initiatives already underway
• Appetite for applied AI, intelligent automation and low‑friction digital improvements across the organisation

Security & Governance

• Cyber Essentials Plus is in place
• ISO‑aligned frameworks ready to be strengthened
• Need for someone who can elevate maturity, risk management, audit readiness and documentation for key tenders

This is a modern, flexible environment where you can truly shape best practice and long‑term capability.

Why This Role Will Excite You:

• You’ll build maturity through ITIL, SLAs and service catalogue uplift.
• You’ll improve stability and integration across ERP and systems.
• You’ll unlock visibility through BI and data engineering.
• You’ll take emerging AI use cases and turn them into genuine value.
• You’ll modernise governance and security as the organisation grows.
• And you’ll develop a team that wants leadership, coaching and confidence.

It’s a chance to build, shape, refine and elevate a technology function during a pivotal growth phase.

If you want to be the person who sets the tone, raises the bar, and leaves a lasting impact on the business, then please get in touch for a confidential discussion.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.