IT Manager - Midlands

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Hybrid Role - Midlands based with travel to various sites.

Up to £75,000 plus car allowance, and annual performance related bonus.

I am working with a rapidly growing business in the Midlands area.

They are looking for an IT Manager to join them and oversee the planning and delivery of the IT Roadmap.

They are looking for someone who has both hands-on capabilities, as well as a strategic mindset and excellent stakeholder communication.

Although the bulk of the work within will be carried out by trusted MSP partners, you should be hands on enough to be able to course correct and provide clear instruction. The ability to carry out the work yourself is important when guiding others on decisions and configurations.

You will need to carry out some high level, hands on support when needed.

This is a hands-on IT Manager role, needed to support the continued growth and the integration of businesses acquisitions.

You'll be the technical guru within the business covering a wide range of responsibilities.

You will have no direct reports, you will be managing the delivery from third-party, and vendors.

The ideal candidate will have come from a large company, with experience influencing others, engaging internal and external stakeholders, working alongside MSP support, and Vendors, whilst keeping your skills up to date in a hands-on capacity.

You will be visiting multiple sites across various locations and can expect to travel on average 3 days per week to either your base location office, or other site locations.

Responsibilities

Architectural Decision Making - Design, Oversee, and implement the Technology roadmap

Hands on delivery when needed

Oversight of Cyber Security delivery

Stakeholder Management

Project Delivery - working closely with IT project managers

Vendor and 3p Management

Introduction and oversight of Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Experience required:

Microsoft 365

Experience with on prem to cloud migration

Organisational transformation experience - e.g. new systems implementation,

Integration of systems, optimisation of data

Vendor management

Stakeholder Management - internal and external

Driver's licence is required

Desirable experience:

Experience with work management software such as JobLogic, Jobber, SimPRO or similar - implementation, enhancement, and rollout

Knowledge of Cyber Security

PowerBI - knowledge or experience producing and maintaining reports.

This is an urgent vacancy, if you are interested then please apply quoting reference: LIRAR(phone number removed)

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