IT Business Partner — Remote Tech & Security Lead

Founders Forum; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

25 days annual leave

Birthday discretionary leave

Remote work up to 3 weeks/year

AXA Health insurance

Life Insurance

Medicash access

Employee Assistance Program

Pension provision

Perkbox membership

Learning & development allowance

Cycle to work

Office snacks & lunches

Team activities & annual trip

Access to FF Group network

Résumé du poste

Founders Forum Group is seeking an IT Business Partner to own the day-to-day technology stack and act as the main contact between the business and our outsourced IT partner. You will own the group software estate and its budget, work toward security accreditation, and enable new ventures with scalable tech.

You will join a fast-paced, multi-entity group, delivering with cross-functional teams, vendor stakeholders and external specialists, without writing code yourself.

Qualifications

• Experience with IT operations, IT management, business systems or technical project management is preferable, ideally in a start-up or scale-up where you have been hands on.
• Proven track record managing outsourced providers and vendors, including contracts, service levels and commercial negotiation.
• Strong project management capability, with experience running multiple projects at once.
• Experience of a CRM or marketing automation migration, ideally including data migration, integration build and driving adoption after go live.
• Demonstrable ownership of an IT or SaaS budget, with a clear understanding of licensing models and where cost is actually saved.
• Practical experience of information security and data protection in a commercial setting, including access control, security questionnaires and GDPR obligations.
• Confident administering and integrating a modern SaaS stack. Our environment includes Google Workspace, a CRM and marketing automation platform, Airtable, Notion, Asana, Slack, Xero, Stripe, BambooHR and a range of event and prospecting tools.
• Comfortable with integration and automation concepts, APIs and no-code or low-code tooling, without needing to write production code.
• Experience setting up IT for a new entity, office or business line from a standing start.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical matters to non-technical stakeholders and business needs to technical suppliers.

Responsabilités

• Act as the main IT partner and vendor manager, coordinating with the outsourced IT provider and technology suppliers.
• Manage the overall technology estate including licences, renewals, costs and ownership across the group.
• Lead end-to-end technology initiatives such as CRM and marketing automation migrations to Attio and Braze.
• Own contract renewals, negotiations and consolidation opportunities with CFO sign-off.
• Oversee access management and licence tracking as staff join/leave.
• Support platform administration for core systems and reporting in collaboration with Data Manager.
• Identify duplication to reduce tool count and cost.
• Assist the CFO with annual IT budget, forecasts and monthly reporting.
• Build simple business cases for technology investments highlighting cost, benefit and risk.
• Coordinate with team leads on day-to-day tech needs and measure spend/licence utilisation.

Connaissances

IT operations

Vendor management

Project management

CRM migration

Budget management

Information security

API & no-code tooling

New entity IT setup

Technical supplier communication

Outils

Google Workspace

CRM (Attio)

Marketing automation

Airtable

Notion

Asana

Slack

Xero

Stripe

BambooHR

Description du poste

Founders Forum Group is seeking an IT Business Partner to own the day-to-day technology stack and act as the main contact between the business and our outsourced IT partner. You will own the group software estate and its budget, work toward security accreditation, and enable new ventures with scalable tech.

You will join a fast-paced, multi-entity group, delivering with cross-functional teams, vendor stakeholders and external specialists, without writing code yourself.