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Head of IT (Interim)

Network IT

West Midlands, B9 5QA

£580 per day

Posted: 07 July 2026 (Yesterday)

Closing date: 06 August 2026

Ref: JH-99

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About the Role

The Head of IT (Interim) is a 12-month contract role based in the West Midlands, paying £580 per day. This position leads an IT department through significant organisational change, focusing on complex digital and data transformation. The successful candidate will drive forward IT performance, shape the future operating model, and enhance digital capability across the business. Strong communication skills are essential, as the role involves influencing non-technical stakeholders during key decision-making. The working pattern is full-time on a contract basis. Key skills required include IT leadership, stakeholder management, and experience in transformation programmes within a changing environment.

Network IT is currently recruiting for a Head of IT, to join our client in the West Midlands on a 12 month contract assignment.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced IT leader to join a client undergoing wide scale organisational change, and support our client through what will be a complex IT, Digital and Data transformation.
Our client is looking for an excellent communicator, who can lead an IT department, whilst also balancing the challenge of influencing non-technical stakeholders through key decisions.
This is a day rate contract role, with a goal in the 12 months to drive forwards transformation across IT and the wider business, work on the future operating model to enable digital capability and IT performance.
Role: Head of IT
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: £580 per day
Status: Inside IR35
Working Practice: 3 to 5 days onsite
Location: West Midlands
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic / operational leadership, and direction for IT, digital and data.
- Line management of 5 IT leadership FTE’s in ICT operations, architecture, applications, infrastructure and service delivery.
- Support the leadership on developing and executing a defined transformation programme, against budget and within set timelines.
- Orchestrate complex organisational change, aligning technology, people, processes and governance.
- Ensure cyber resilience, robust data governance and secure service delivery.
- Manage significant revenue budgets and capital investment aligned to transformation objectives.
- Build and nurture relationships across senior leadership, stakeholders and users within the business.
Key Skills:
- Demonstratable background of operating as an IT leader / Head of IT, within complex transformation programmes.
- Proven experience across both public and private sector environments.
- A background in leading IT departments through complex change, such as Mergers / Acquisitions / Insourcing / Outsourcing / Target Operating Model change.
- Proven capability in orchestrating complex, enterprise-wide change programmes
- Strong commercial, financial and strategic capability
- The ability to influence senior stakeholders, and lead teams, able to translate complex requirements for non-technical stakeholders.