About Nexfibre

Nexfibre is a £4.5 billion joint venture between Infravia Capital Partners, Liberty Global and Telefónica, formed to deliver ultra-fast full fibre broadband to up to 7 million homes across the UK.

Together with our commercial partner Virgin Media O2, we will create the first national scale competitor to BT Openreach, providing consumers and businesses with better innovation and choice.

Job Purpose

As IT Director, you will be accountable for the IT strategy and roadmap, defining the guidelines and managing the delivery of a technology stack that supports the evolving business strategy.

You will oversee and control the IT operations developed by specialists and partners, ensuring that the technology is best supporting business activity.

Key Accountabilities

• End-to-end responsibility for IT programme delivery, from planning through to design, development, integration, testing, and handover.
• Shaping and designing the strategy, accountable for supporting the definition of guidelines and control of developing the technology stack.
• Overseeing impact and feasibility assessments for new and future requirements that provide cost-effective technical solutions.
• Leading all aspects of the definition and development of standards and guidelines, documentation and deployment working practices for the IT stack.
• Lead the Programme implementation, coordinating multiple projects for new / updated applications, and maintaining a view of what's important for the ongoing upkeep, and improvement of IT systems.
• Decision Making, showing leadership and making decisions that are both tactical and strategic in nature.
• Programme Leadership, providing leadership for these programmes through formal governance roles, and building and maintaining trusted relationships with collaborators.
• Overseeing technology partners compliance, ensuring IT delivery contracts with partners and vendors are in compliance with SLAs and delivered in line with strategic and financial aims.
• Handling IT budget accountability, managing the annual IT capital and operating expense budgets and running the review, audit, and prioritisation of all IT systems and applications.
• Leading a mentality of innovation, leading to identify innovative ways to enhance the IT architecture, and offering from solution design to through deployment.

Knowledge & Experience

• Deep IT expertise in relevant industry, with demonstrable experience and evidence of success in a senior information management role within the telecommunications and / or wholesale business areas.
• Comfortable with leading large programmes, familiar with the demands of large scale IT deployment programmes and able to work at pace to conduct the wide range of activity required to deliver them.
• Shown experience and skills in the management of vendors, developing risk-based commercial frameworks, managing and monitoring vendors, and vendor relationship management.
• Bring significant commercial skills and experience to bear to develop and challenge costs and benefits in business cases, including resource management, financial management, and budget management.
• Able to take decisions, assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks and can make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interest of the organisation.
• Advanced interpersonal skills, being able to relate well to others, to dictate responsibilities, to offer constructive feedback, to influence and persuade, and to support and encourage others.
• Demonstrates the gravitas and courage needed to build links and convey authority in order to resolve issues and maintain direction.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to think quickly and be adept about how to address problems as they come up and to learn from the issues.

Desirable Skills & Abilities

• Industry leadership, constantly scanning the market to understand technology trends and how these may be incorporated to deliver value for our business.
• Experienced in dealing / communicating with the business on IT related matters in a clear and concise manner.

Preferred Education / Qualifications

Experience of operating at a senior management level preferably in a technical or project management related role.

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