Head of IT Strategy, Planning & Performance
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£74,700
(£38.31 per hour)
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Description
Laing O'Rourke is looking for a Head of IT Strategy, Planning & Performance to play a central role in shaping how technology supports the organisation's long-term ambitions.
This role will act as a strategic partner to the Head of IT, ensuring that technology strategy, planning and performance management are fully aligned with the Group's priorities.
You will bring structure, clarity and pace to how the IT function plans, prioritises and delivers outcomes, helping the leadership team operate as a cohesive and high-performing unit while ensuring technology investments deliver measurable value.
What will the role look like?
You Will Play a Key Role In
This role will act as a strategic partner to the Head of IT, ensuring that technology strategy, planning and performance management are fully aligned with the Group's priorities.
You will bring structure, clarity and pace to how the IT function plans, prioritises and delivers outcomes, helping the leadership team operate as a cohesive and high-performing unit while ensuring technology investments deliver measurable value.
What will the role look like?
You Will Play a Key Role In
- Leading the development and refresh of the IT strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enterprise architecture direction.
- Coordinating strategic planning and portfolio management, ensuring technology investments, resources and capabilities are focused on the most critical outcomes.
- Driving performance management and value realisation, establishing reporting frameworks that track benefits, investment outcomes and delivery effectiveness.
- We are looking for a strategic technology leader who can combine business insight with strong operational delivery.
- Ideally, you will bring:
- Proven experience shaping and delivering IT or digital strategies within complex, multi-stakeholder organisations.
- Strong experience across portfolio management, strategic planning, transformation programmes or enterprise PMO environments.
- Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear priorities and actionable insights.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience supporting senior leadership teams and influencing executive decision-making.
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experienc
e, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com