Digital Strategy Lead IT Business Partner

4 days ago


Leicestershire, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

**Digital Strategy Lead (IT Business Partner)**:

- The University of Leicester is a leading university, ranked in the top 30 across the UK. We are currently celebrating our Centenary year and are proud of providing a world-class education for 100 years.
Digital Transformation is at the heart of our recently released 10-year Strategy, and we have the ambition to expand our technology capabilities, to enable innovation, and deliver better services for our students and staff. This is an exciting time in DigitalServices as we transform with pace and agility, to help the University achieve its vision to provide inspiring education and research, working in partnership with our communities to become a truly inclusive university._
As part of our broader investment in our Digital Strategy, we are redefining out Business Partnering function to create new **Digital Strategy Lead (IT Business Partner)** opportunities. These positions will lead on the development, engagement, and delivery of our strategy, and play a pivotal role in collaborating with stakeholders and driving customer relationshipacross key areas of the organisation.
The role will be expected to lead and motivate colleagues across the department on the delivery of the Digital Strategy/Digital Services Portfolio and be a brand ambassador for Digital Services, creating transparency and engagement in Digital across the University.
**Core Skills**
- Experience of leading on business stakeholder engagement and relationship management
- Strong stakeholder management with the ability to communicate and influence a broad audience across the university
- Experience of working in a large, complex IT environment
- Experience of working with 3rd party suppliers
- Knowledge of standard IT departmental processes, such as Demand, Resource & Capacity Management, Testing, Architecture, Agile and Change Management

The University of Leicester offers an extensive benefits package including:

- A competitive salary package of up to circa £50,296 per annum
- 41 days leave - 27 days, plus six closure days, plus bank holidays
- Excellent University pension scheme, with employer contributions of circa 21%
- Hays Technology have been retained by the University of Leicester to manage the recruitment of this role. For all enquiries, please contact Joel Mundy or Daniel Friedman at Hays Technology._



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