Jenson Fisher
Head of Information Technology
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Head of IT
£75,000 - £90,000, plus benefits
4 Days Head Office/1 Day Home Based
As the Head of IT, reporting to the IT Director, you will help lead the strategy, performance, and evolution of the IT support function across a fast-paced, multi-site automotive group. Within the role, you will be responsible for managing a high-performing support function, overseeing critical infrastructure, and delivering strategic improvements that enhance up-time, user experience, and operational efficiency.
The Head of IT will have expertise in technology strategy, business continuity, cybersecurity, and enterprise-scale service delivery. The successful candidate will demonstrate results-driven leadership through successful project execution, budget oversight, and infrastructure modernisation.
Operationally, you will be proficient in IT governance, structure support frameworks, and project management methodologies, with a strong focus on innovation, cloud transformation, data privacy compliance, and be committed to delivering secure, scalable solutions aligned with long-term business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with the IT Director to help shape IT strategy to support business growth and operational efficiency.
- Provide guidance to the IT Director, CEO, and board on technology risk and investment.
- Maintain IT roadmap including cloud and cybersecurity initiatives.
- Coordinate IT operations across multiple sites ensuring high availability.
- Manage escalation of major incidents and implement preventative measures.
- Oversee incident, problem, and change management, ensuring SLA adherence and consistent service quality across all dealerships and corporate sites.
- Lead continued migration to Microsoft Azure and support Microsoft 365 adoption.
- Oversee rollout of Windows 11 with minimal disruption.
- Strengthen cybersecurity posture through policy enforcement, vulnerability remediation, MFA adoption, and proactive risk management.
- Develop IT team capability, accountability, and performance.
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues across networks, servers, cloud services, and end-user technologies.
- Collaborate with senior leadership and department heads to align IT services with operational needs and commercial priorities.
- Manage third-party vendors and contracts, ensuring value for money, service quality, and strategic alignment.
- Lead and develop the IT Support team, setting performance standards, coaching engineers, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Own the desktop engineering function, including endpoint lifecycle management, imaging, patching, hardware refresh, and application deployment.
- Manage disaster recovery and business continuity planning, including documentation, testing cycles, failover procedures, and ensuring readiness for critical events.
- Deliver IT projects end-to-end, from scoping and planning through to implementation and stakeholder communication—covering infrastructure upgrades, cloud adoption, security enhancements, and system rollouts.
- Drive standardisation and automation across support processes to reduce downtime and improve user experience.
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- Demonstratable experience of supporting a multi-discipline estate across multiple sites.
- Good/intermediate networking knowledge of both Data and Voice networks.
- Active Directory user/groups setup and administration.
- Azure hosting and Cloud-based technologies.
- Artificial Intelligence Implementation.
- Helping to Shape IT strategy to support business growth and operational efficiency.
- Develop IT team capability, accountability, and performance.
- Help to Strengthen cybersecurity posture, including endpoint protection and actively promote security best practice across the group.
- Business continuity planning.
- Business Process Analysis.
- Project leadership.
- Results-driven leadership.
- Budget oversight.
- Endpoint security.
- Disaster recovery planning.
- Enterprise software implementation.
- IT governance.
- Technical innovation.
- Business intelligence implementation.
- Virtual reality technologies.
- Data privacy compliance.
Benefits
- Pension - Statutory Workplace Pension contributions.
- Life Cover/Death in Service Benefit - 2X Salary.
- Private Medical Insurance (PMI) with options for full family coverage - Child cover included up to the age of 21.
- Car Allowance (If vehicle bought from business) or Salary Sacrifice lease scheme - £300.
- EOT Bonus.
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