Head of IT

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it’s employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.
- Improve the governance, strategic execution, and operational performance setting appropriate measures that keeps the function focused on business outcomes.
- Implement appropriate control frameworks that define the guiding principles and IT standards to be followed.
- Provide transparency of the total IT investment and enable key decision makers to prioritize demand based on strategic objectives, risks, dependencies, and potential constraints in the supply of IT services.
- Ensure there are processes in place to capture, distribute and effectively use IT knowledge across the enterprise, driving continuous learning and improvement.
- Position the value of IT and the role of the IT function within the group through effective communication of the strategic plans to drive the right priorities and behaviours.
- Develop the workforce strategy for the IT organization determining the appropriate resource levels, managing the talent pipeline, and ensuring objectives are aligned with strategic plans.
- Ensure career development, talent management, development plans, and succession planning is in place using Connected Conversations, the talent management process, and career development plans.
- Ensure all Health, Safety, and Wellbeing practices are adhered to and reported on.

What we are looking for is a team player and effective communicator, confident in their capability, whilst able to recognise areas for development. They must also be able to think creatively and should always be seeking new and more efficient ways to improve the function and associated processes.

They will have well-developed interpersonal and influencing skills and an ability to build collaborative relationships and manage a variety of stakeholders, each with differing requirements and challenges. It’s important that they can inspire, trust and establish credibility through effective partnership skills by consistently delivering against commitments.

They should have a natural ability in developing others, nurturing best practice, and be able to demonstrate that they can see the bigger strategic picture with resilience to navigate evolving requirements.

Knowledge and Experience
- Plans, schedules, prioritises, allocates work effectively, and delivers to multiple competing deadlines.
- Communicates confidently and assertively with a variety of audiences; negotiates effectively; and appropriately manages conflict.
- Uses initiative to identify and solve problems proactively, uses good judgement to refer issues upwards as necessary, and identifies and manages risk effectively.
- Is respectful and polite towards others, builds productive working relationships; works collaboratively across functional boundaries towards common goals.
- Remains effective and positive even when under pressure.
- Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement, shows commitment to own professional development, and demonstrates enthusiasm to learn new skills.

Desirable
- A recognised relevant professional qualification.
- Experience of working in a complex matrix environment.
- Experience of functional planning and implementing governance frameworks.
- Experience of implementing the COBIT framework. Key Performance Indicators
- Business management systems compliance.
- Delivery to strategic objectives.
- Connected conversation completion rate.
- Employee satisfaction.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

Job Profile

Mott MacDonald are a global engineering, management and development consultancy focused on guiding their clients through many of the planet’s most intricate challenges.

Reporting to the Group Head of IT, the Head of IT - Planning and Governance is accountable for the following:

- Facilitate the creation of the IT strategy that covers the IT organisation and IT services ensuring the functions priorities are clearly defined with strategic plans put in place.
- Design and maintain the IT operating models that are required to successfully execute the strategy as part of the strategic planning process.
- Accountable for implementing the appropriate control frameworks and governance mechanisms for the management and use of IT.
- Ensure the function is performing to plan and report on metrics that track the progress of IT maturity against strategic objectives.

In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining a collaborative culture and leading an environment to improve the health, wellbeing, and engagement of the IT functions employees through visible leadership and effective people management.

Other Information
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
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