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Are you looking for your next step? Keen to work for a stable market leader with a great company culture, in a hands-on, varied, and exciting IT Director role, where decision making is quick and the impact of your work can be seen from day one? Then read on.

Autosmart International is a manufacturing and distribution success story. We formulate and manufacture vehicle cleaning products which are sold to a wide variety of trade customers by our 300 franchisees, across seven countries. In the UK, one in two cars sold and one in five trucks are cleaned using our products. In the last ten years we've doubled in size to £35m and have a strategic plan to grow to £57 million by 2027, we're profitable and cash generative. To sustain and underpin our ambitious growth plans we're investing £30 million in our new, state of the art production facility, as well as getting ready for our first ERP system this summer.

Our IT Director role reports directly to the Managing Director and our successful candidate will be an ambitious Head of IT, looking to become the voice of all Information Technology matters on the Autosmart board. Our role is perfect for a commercially focused, forward thinking individual, who is confident developing and implementing IT strategy as well as defining and delivering our IT annual plans and enjoys being both operational and strategic. As our IT Director you'll enjoy motivating and developing your team, creating first class supplier relationships and be comfortable recommending future direction and priorities, proposing expenditure justifications at board level and implementing well with your effective team.

What you will be doing:

• Leading a 9 strong IT team, across 3 main functions:
• IT solutions design and delivery for the company, identifying and delivering business efficiencies
• Business Intelligence to deliver meaningful and user-friendly reporting to support informed business decision making
• Service and Operations to ensure our IT hardware and software run securely and efficiently, with a balance of internal staff and external providers, including outsourced service desks
• Identifying the skills required to deliver your IT plans, by recruiting, training, coaching, and working alongside your team, helping them be the best they can, every day
• Developing and delivering IT strategies and plans to cost, quality and time, and providing regular analysis of progress
• Working with Board members, function leaders, process owners and external partners to identify and deliver IT solutions that enhance business performance
• Developing an in depth understanding of our business KPIs

What our IT Director will have:

• 10 years' experience within similar role
• Proven ability to lead, inspire, coach, and manage teams
• Solution delivery management, data architecture, design and build
• Knowledge and understanding of business systems analysis and documentation
• ERP experience (IFS would be beneficial)
• SCADA, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, SQL Server
• BI systems
• Service Delivery Fundamentals, hardware, software, system security

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary, we would love to have a chat about your experience and salary expectations
• Permanent contract of employment
• A varied and autonomous role with a financially stable market leader
• Companywide training programme to develop key skills
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus a sabbatical of an extra 20 days every 3 years
• Non-contributory private health care and critical illness cover
• Generous contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance at three times salary
• Employee assistance programme
• Staff purchase scheme - take home products for FREE

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