Head of Strategy and Consulting

Eduardomolet; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent consulting organization in London is seeking a Head of Strategy and Consulting. You will hold a crucial role in consulting with business stakeholders and defining IT strategies to support business ambitions. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of consultancy experience, particularly in Social Housing, and you will lead a team focused on innovative solutions. This permanent full-time role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering consultancy or enterprise architecture.
• Experience leading or establishing a consultancy function.
• Knowledge of current and emerging applications and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business stakeholders to understand challenges and aims.
• Build strong relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
• Manage an IT Strategy that supports business goals.

Skills

Strong relationship building

Influence and persuasion skills

Consultancy or enterprise architecture experience

Innovative and forward-thinking solutions

Experience in Social Housing

Job description

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What's it all about?

Working for an amazing organisation, you will be accountable for consulting with business stakeholders to better understand their challenges and aims, whilst working with the wider IT team to define solutions and an underpinning IT Strategy to support business ambitions.

How You'll Make a Difference

By using your strong communication skills you will be building strong and collaborative relationships with business and IT stakeholders.

How You'll Do It

• Building and growing trusted, productive relationships with business and IT stakeholders
• Developing a strong knowledge and understanding of your business and customers.
• Providing pragmatic consultancy to the business, focused on value, cost and viability
• Managing and facilitating the maintenance of an IT Strategy which underpins your goals
• Ensuring enterprise architecture is aligned to support and enable your business strategy, and govern its evolution
• Curating an innovation watch list, recognising business opportunities to evaluate their value through business‑focused trials.
• Setting the direction for, and managing, a team of consultants and enterprise architects
• Hybrid working – at least three days a week in the main office.
• This role is at a manager level. You will be responsible for a team of 8.

All About You

Behaviours for success

• Engagement – sympathetic to the needs of customers and business users
• Progressive – innovative and forward‑thinking in the use of technology to solve business problems
• Dependable – stakeholders see you as their first port of call to share problems and ideas
• Inclusive – ensure that appropriate IS&C resources are involved in defining strategy and solution options
• Empowered – you take proactive ownership of challenges, drive solutions, and confidently make recommendations based on your expertise, rather than just waiting for instructions.

Essential knowledge, experience and skills including qualifications and professional membership

• Experience of working within Social Housing is essential
• You have significant experience (5+ years) gaining delivering consultancy or enterprise architecture.
• You have also led or established a consultancy function, ideally within an end client.
• Strong and wide knowledge of current and emerging applications and technologies
• Strong relationship building, influence and persuasion skills
• Track record in championing successful innovation within an organisation

What's on offer?

Remuneration: A competitive base salary c£100,000 pa subject to experience with a strong benefits package.

Location: Hybrid 3 days a week in their London office, rest remote working.

Start: ASAP; client will wait for the right person.

Duration: Permanent full‑time role.

If of interest please send your CV to Simon at with a note explaining why you are interested in, and a fit for, this role.

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Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales
• Industries: Business Consulting and Services