HW Interim Solutions
Interim Information Technology Director
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HW Interim are partnering with an organisation to appoint an Interim IT Director for a hands-on leadership assignment with significant scope and visibility.
This is not a strategy-setting role. The technology roadmap is already defined. The successful individual will take ownership of execution, bringing pace, commercial focus, and strong leadership to a business that needs to move quickly from plans to measurable outcomes.
We are particularly interested in high-potential IT leaders who have already demonstrated their ability to lead at this level and are now ready to take on broader responsibility, greater organizational exposure, and a more substantial transformation mandate.
This could suit an IT leader who is on a strong upward trajectory, has the ambition to progress towards a future CIO/CTO position, and is looking for an assignment where they can make a tangible impact.
Deliverables include:
- Reduce IT operating costs while maintaining or improving service levels.
- Review and optimize the managed service provider model, improving performance, accountability, and value.
- Lead the replacement of a legacy ERP platform, ensuring the business selects and implements the right solution for its future needs.
- Assess the technology estate and strengthen infrastructure, cyber security, and operational resilience.
- Improve IT governance, accountability, and business partnering across the organization.
- Build and develop a high-performing IT function that delivers reliable operational support while enabling future business growth.
- Establish clear priorities, create momentum, and ensure delivery remains focused on measurable business outcomes.
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We are looking for an ambitious, delivery-focused IT leader who combines hands-on operational capability with the confidence to operate at executive level.
You will ideally have:
- Proven IT leadership experience, ideally at IT Director, Head of IT, or equivalent level within an SME or mid-market organization.
- Evidence that you are ready for your next significant leadership challenge, with the ambition and capability to progress towards broader technology leadership responsibilities.
- Experience taking ownership of IT transformation and operational improvement, including infrastructure modernisation, ERP change, supplier management, and service optimisation.
- A hands-on leadership style: comfortable setting direction, making decisions, and then getting close enough to delivery to ensure things actually happen.
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to balance cost, risk, resilience, and business enablement.
- Demonstrable experience managing third-party suppliers and improving performance and value from outsourced technology services.
- The credibility to work effectively from technical teams through to the executive leadership team, adapting communication and challenge to the audience.
- A track record of building trusted relationships across business functions and positioning IT as a proactive business partner rather than simply a support function.
- The ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment, demonstrating adaptability, ownership, sound judgement, and pace.
- Ideally, previous experience delivering a similar transformation or IT leadership mandate, with the ability to apply that experience quickly in a new environment.
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This is an opportunity for an IT leader who wants to demonstrate what they can do at the next level. The assignment has potential to be offered as a permanent position, making it particularly relevant to someone building towards a broader CIO/CTO career.
Immediate availability/short notice period is preferred.
How to Apply: If you would like to apply for this position, please submit an up-to-date copy of your CV that supports the criteria set out above. Due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving for roles, we will only contact candidates who meet the required criteria to discuss the role further.
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