Ict Product Partner

**Are you passionate about the role technology plays in organisations?**

If you have the experience to establish and understand business needs and match them to technology capabilities, then we’d love to hear from you

Here at Longhurst Group we’re on a journey to deliver a high-quality ICT service to members of our organisation to both empower and enable our colleagues to fulfil our vision of Improving lives for our customers. We’re now looking for an inspirational and driven individual to join as our Product Partner.

Within this opportunity you will play a key role in developing, communicating, and leading on the delivery of a compelling product vision for your assigned business areas. You will be a key individual in our vision of delivering a high-quality ICT offering for our customers helping to deliver something tremendous which will help our teams to improve lives.

If you have a proven track record of bringing people together, understanding the needs of competing stakeholders and the ability to translate these elements into a working solution, then you are the type of person we need. Agile, able to react to shifting requirements, yet possessing an ability to communicate and deliver clearly and successfully you will gather a significant understanding of how a complex care and housing organisation operates and be an integral part of a team delivering varied solutions that enable our staff to deliver excellent services to our customers.

To be really successful in this role you’ll need to be confident in communicating at all levels, able to understand the strategic aims of the stakeholders you work with, be able to translate business needs into technical requirements, work methodically, collaboratively and under pressure as well as possessing sound knowledge of different project methodologies.

We’re looking for a highly motivated individual with the key skills and experience to:

- Identify business need for new services or existing service improvements
- Explain technology solutions in business terms
- Work through ambiguity bringing teams of people with you
- Collaborate effectively with a range of multi-disciplined teams
- lead in an IT environment.

We also welcome applicants from outside ICT who may have transferrable skills, for example you may have worked within ICT or project environments within public sector, corporate environments or other care and housing providers. Invested in our colleague’s progression you will also have access to our internal learning and development offerings to further enhance your skill set

Work life balance is important at Longhurst Group, in this role you’ll be based from home (36.25hrs per week) however face to face meetings with the team and stakeholders are encouraged

If it’s important to you that your work delivers a positive impact, you have a willingness to learn and drive change then please share your CV now.

**Our offer**

When you join us you will enjoy:

- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Pension Scheme
- Life Cover (as part of pension scheme membership)
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Free Eye Tests
- Investment in your personal development through our extensive learning and development opportunities.
- Family friendly, carers leave plus other paid leave
- Free membership of our Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance programme
- Wellbeing Support
- Free flu jabs
- Long Service Awards
- Carers Networking Group a platform to support Unpaid Carers
**How to apply**

Please note, in the instance of high applicant volumes we reserve the right to close this advert early.
**Vetting Requirements**

The important things - Naturally working with our customers we need to complete pre-employment checks before you join us. This role is conditional upon receipt of two satisfactory references (one from your current employer).

**Equal Opportunities**

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Longhurst Group is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.