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This role involves bridging the gap between technology and business needs, ensuring IT strategies align with organisational goals. This position in Woking offers a chance to make a significant impact within the technology department of a well‑established company. The client operates on a hybrid schedule (2‑3 days on‑site in Woking.)
Description
Communications and relationships
- Builds strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the assigned business area
- Attends relevant business meetings and forums to represent IT and ensure alignment between business requirements and IT capabilities
- Understands both tactical and strategic business requirements and identifies how IT can support them
- Owns the relationship between the business area and IT, acting as an ambassador for IT
- Provides monthly reporting to Steering Committee meetings on the status of change initiatives
- Understands the Business Strategy and its implications for IT strategy
- Identifies how business and IT strategies impact operational processes and works with appropriate teams to ensure successful implementation
- Identifies key challenges and issues within the business area and develops solutions to address them
Demand management
- Acts as the focal point for IT demand within the assigned business area
- Develops a strong understanding of the assigned business area to clearly identify and articulate demand
- Identifies current and future demand for IT services
- Works with the business to develop business cases for new demand
- Ensures the IT project pipeline accurately reflects business priorities and needs
- Supports and, where necessary, leads or champions the business through change management activities
Service assurance
- Ensures IT services meet the needs of the assigned business area
- Gathers feedback on IT services and works with the IT Service Management team to agree and deliver improvement actions
- Owns relationships with third‑party suppliers to ensure the business receives optimal service and value for money
- Uses deep understanding of the assigned business area to ensure that transitions from delivery into live service are seamless
- Champions innovation and continuous process improvement
- Identifies opportunities for business improvement and cost reduction
- Promotes innovation across the organisation by sharing ideas and best practices between business areas
Business change management
- Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, associated business change outcomes, and the realisation of benefits
Profile
- Knowledge of ITIL, Prince2 and Agile methodology and working practices preferable but not essential
- Degree Qualified or equivalent work experience
- Experience of work in large multi business unit corporate organisations and centralised IT functions.
- Experience work working with Board Level Directors (C‑suite)
- Exceptional Stakeholder and Relationship Management
- Excellent understanding of travel, transport, and logistics operations
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Highly accomplished to communicate complex problems in a non‑technical and simplified manner
- Highly accomplished to effectively communicate business needs to IT
- Ability to effectively quantify and translate technical solutions, from business "problems"
- Attention to detail and excellent analytic skills
- Highly self‑motivated and well organised and able to work on own initiative
- Seeking opportunities for improvement in self and the business
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to influence and drive collaboration, leads by example
Job Offer
A competitive salary and benefits package
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Location: Woking
Job Description:
This role involves bridging the gap between technology and business needs, ensuring IT strategies align with organisational goals. This position in Woking offers a chance to make a significant impact within the technology department of a well‑established company. The client operates on a hybrid schedule (2‑3 days on‑site in Woking.)
Description
Communications and relationships
- Builds strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the assigned business area
- Attends relevant business meetings and forums to represent IT and ensure alignment between business requirements and IT capabilities
- Understands both tactical and strategic business requirements and identifies how IT can support them
- Owns the relationship between the business area and IT, acting as an ambassador for IT
- Provides monthly reporting to Steering Committee meetings on the status of change initiatives
- Understands the Business Strategy and its implications for IT strategy
- Identifies how business and IT strategies impact operational processes and works with appropriate teams to ensure successful implementation
- Identifies key challenges and issues within the business area and develops solutions to address them
Demand management
- Acts as the focal point for IT demand within the assigned business area
- Develops a strong understanding of the assigned business area to clearly identify and articulate demand
- Identifies current and future demand for IT services
- Works with the business to develop business cases for new demand
- Ensures the IT project pipeline accurately reflects business priorities and needs
- Supports and, where necessary, leads or champions the business through change management activities
Service assurance
- Ensures IT services meet the needs of the assigned business area
- Gathers feedback on IT services and works with the IT Service Management team to agree and deliver improvement actions
- Owns relationships with third‑party suppliers to ensure the business receives optimal service and value for money
- Uses deep understanding of the assigned business area to ensure that transitions from delivery into live service are seamless
- Champions innovation and continuous process improvement
- Identifies opportunities for business improvement and cost reduction
- Promotes innovation across the organisation by sharing ideas and best practices between business areas
Business change management
- Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, associated business change outcomes, and the realisation of benefits
Profile
- Knowledge of ITIL, Prince2 and Agile methodology and working practices preferable but not essential
- Degree Qualified or equivalent work experience
- Experience of work in large multi business unit corporate organisations and centralised IT functions.
- Experience work working with Board Level Directors (C‑suite)
- Exceptional Stakeholder and Relationship Management
- Excellent understanding of travel, transport, and logistics operations
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Highly accomplished to communicate complex problems in a non‑technical and simplified manner
- Highly accomplished to effectively communicate business needs to IT
- Ability to effectively quantify and translate technical solutions, from business “problems”
- Attention to detail and excellent analytic skills
- Highly self‑motivated and well organised and able to work on own initiative
- Seeking opportunities for improvement in self and the business
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to influence and drive collaboration, leads by example
Job Offer
A competitive salary and benefits package
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Posted: May 16th, 2026