IT Business Services Manager

1. This is an exciting opportunity to use your significant experience, inspiring leadership as well as skilful relationship and performance management expertise.
2. You will help the Council to modernise its use of data and digitise its services to the benefit of our residents and to lower costs.
3. The Council offers flexible working policies, including job share, hybrid working and attractive benefits.

Job Reference: 0003668

Salary: Grade 11 - SCP 50 to 53 Salary Range from £61,126 to £65,959 

Package: Permanent Full Time

Reporting to the Chief Officer Governance, you will help the Council to modernise its use of data and digitise its services to the benefit of our residents and to lower costs.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your significant experience, inspiring leadership as well as skilful relationship and performance management expertise, to further develop our digital transformation programme. We value the significant contribution of leadership when working on complex change projects, right across the organisation and in collaboration with our partners. Your experience and positive enthusiasm for modernising the service and its systems as your shared desire to invest in our workforce, will be key to success. You will have significant post qualification experience and management experience gained in local authority or similarly relevant environment.

The Council offers flexible working policies, including job share, hybrid working and attractive benefits. Come to work or take the opportunity to live in the beautiful North Wales countryside with Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool close by. This is a great opportunity, look forward to hearing from you!

This post will contribute to and support the achievement of the strategic goals of the organisation through development and delivery of the Corporate IT Strategy, ensuring the Council receives high quality IT services that represent value for money and facilitate the delivery of council policies, strategies and services against a backdrop of reducing budgets.

The post will take responsibility for strategic direction and accountability for the overall delivery of the all of the Councils IT Business Services ensuring that they develop and evolve to take account of changes in technology, whilst also identifying opportunities to reduce cost of provision. Development of a programme of digitisation should support the Council in streamlining and modernising working practices by utilising IT as a means of service improvement or cost reduction.