Head Of Strategy And Consulting

itecopeople; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in London seeks a Head of Strategy and Consulting to manage IT strategy implementation. The role requires strong communication skills, relationship building with stakeholders, and extensive experience in consultancy, particularly in Social Housing. The position offers a competitive salary of around £100,000 per annum with a strong benefits package and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Strong benefits package

Qualifications

• 5+ years of consultancy or enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience in Social Housing is essential.
• Proven track record in successful innovation.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business stakeholders to address challenges and aims.
• Manage a team of consultants and enterprise architects.
• Ensure enterprise architecture aligns with business strategy.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Relationship building

Consultancy experience

Knowledge of applications and technologies

Innovative thinking

Influence and persuasion skills

Job description

Head of Strategy and Consulting.

Working for an amazing organisation, you will be accountable for consulting with business stakeholders to better understand their challenges and aims, whilst working with the wider IT team to define solutions and an underpinning IT Strategy to support business ambitions.

How you'll make a difference

By using your strong communication skills you will be building strong and collaborative relationships with business and IT stakeholders.

How you'll do it

• Building and growing trusted, productive relationships with business and IT stakeholders
• Developing a strong knowledge and understanding of their business and customers.
• Providing pragmatic consultancy to the business, focused on value, cost and viability
• Managing and facilitating the maintenance of an IT Strategy which underpins their goals
• Ensuring enterprise architecture is aligned to support and enable their business strategy, and govern its evolution
• Curating innovation watch list, recognising business opportunities to evaluate their value through business-focused trials.
• Setting the direction for, and managing, a team of consultants and enterprise architects
• Hybrid working - at least three days a week in the main office.
• This role is at a manager level. You will be responsible for a team of 8.

All about you

Behaviours for success.

• Engagement - sympathetic to the needs of customers and business users
• Progressive - innovative and forward-thinking in the use of technology to solve business problems
• Dependable - stakeholders see you as their first port of call to share problems and ideas
• Inclusive - ensure that appropriate IS&C resources are involved in defining strategy and solution options
• Empowered - you take proactive ownership of challenges, drive solutions, and confidently make recommendations based on their expertise, rather than just waiting for instructions.

Essential knowledge, experience and skills including qualifications and professional membership

• Experience of working within Social Housing is essential
• You have significant experience (5+ years) gained delivering consultancy or enterprise architecture.
• You have also led or established a consultancy function, ideally within an end client.
• Strong and wide knowledge of current and emerging applications and technologies
• Strong relationship building, influence and persuasion skills
• Track record in championing successful innovation within an organisation

What's on offer?

Remuneration: A competitive base salary c 100,000 pa subject to experience with a strong benefits package.
Location: Hybrid 3 days a week in their London office, rest remote working.
Start: ASAP client will wait for the right person.
Duration: Permanent full-time role.

If of interest please send your CV to Simon at (url removed) with a note explaining why you are interested in, and a fit for, this role.

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