Head of Strategy and Consulting.

What's it all about?

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 with a note explaining why you are interested in, and a fit for, this role.

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