IT Director

Big Red Recruitment; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm is seeking an experienced IT Director to lead a growing organization in transforming its IT capabilities. This role demands a calm, credible leader with director-level experience in technology functions. You will be responsible for setting a pragmatic technology strategy, building a high-performing IT function, and embedding cyber security into the business. The ideal candidate will have a broad technical understanding, excellent emotional intelligence, and a strong commercial focus.

Qualifications

• Director-level experience leading a technology function.
• Track record of building IT capability.
• Broad technical understanding across IT disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology strategy aligned to business outcomes.
• Build a high-performing IT function across various disciplines.
• Deliver transformation that is sustainable.

Skills

Leadership

Cyber security

Commercial awareness

IT transformation

Stakeholder management

Technology strategy

Job description

Do you want to play a central role in transforming the IT capability of a growing, multi-site enterprise organisation? To lead meaningful change backed by real investment and genuine senior buy-in? And to do it in a role with clear scope to grow and progress?

This is an opportunity for a calm, credible IT Director who knows how to build trust, mature capability, and lead change without losing sight of the people involved.

It’s a brownfield environment with strong SLT support and ambitious growth plans. The organisation is ready to move forward and wants a leader who can take them on that journey.

Yes, the fundamentals matter. But this isn’t about ego or heroics. It’s about leadership. You’re first and foremost a people leader. You stay visible, mentor your team, and roll your sleeves up when it helps others succeed, not to prove a point.

You bring breadth across IT disciplines; cyber, applications, cloud (Azure), infrastructure – and you know enough to ask the right questions without needing to be the smartest person in the room.

You’re commercially minded and business focused. You take time to understand problems before reaching for solutions. You can explain value, risk, and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and help them make confident decisions.

Above all, you’re engaging and emotionally intelligent. You build rapport easily, communicate without jargon, and create trust through clarity, consistency, and follow-through.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Setting and leading a clear, pragmatic technology strategy aligned to business outcomes
• Building and developing a high-performing IT function across service, infrastructure, cyber, applications, data and architecture
• Delivering transformation that sticks, not just launches
• Embedding cyber security, resilience and regulatory compliance into the business
• Managing budgets and suppliers with commercial realism
• Partnering with senior leaders to translate business challenges into technology that genuinely adds value

What will help you succeed

• Director-level experience leading a technology function
• Exposure to different sectors and operating environments, ideally including regulated ones
• A track record of building IT capability, not just inheriting it
• Broad technical understanding beyond a single specialism
• Confidence operating with senior leadership teams and Boards
• A delivery mindset balanced with pragmatism and empathy

Why take this role on?

Because you’ll be trusted to lead, expected to collaborate, and supported to deliver change that matters. You’ll have influence at the top table, accountability for outcomes that count, and the chance to shape an IT function that genuinely supports people, customers and growth.