Group Technology Director - UK - £Up to £185k pa basic, Significant OTE, Porsche Panamera Compa ...

Salary: £Up to £185k pa basic, Significant OTE, Porsche Panamera Company Car plus Executive Benefits

We are working with a leading packaging manufacturer to appoint a high calibre Group Technology Director.

Operating in over 30 countries, this company works with some of the world's biggest brands, continuously growing their size and increasing their footprint around the world. They are constantly looking for better ways of doing things and lead the way in packaging innovation. They strive for finding the brightest new ideas to continually improve design, innovation and entrepreneurship.

For employees, they have developed industry-leading work practices to help them excel by driving and developing their careers and rewarding and retaining them in the organisation.

This role is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of a world class global technology architecture and digital enterprise service environment. This includes partnering with the broader technology team at country, regional and global level to help define and implement enterprise and regional technology strategy and standards.

• Partner with functional and technical leaders to identify and plan capabilities necessary to meet short and long-term business needs
• Develop and execute strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
• Inform and drive strategic alignment and partnership with functional and technical peers and leaders
• Connect the dots across multiple levels and related functions to understand the entirety of the business
• Evaluate research and market analysis, meet with third party vendors, and maintain knowledge of industry innovations and technology platforms to inform strategy
• Establish and nurture strategic vendor relationships; influence vendors to align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
• Drive growth for the business by applying technical and domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action

• Define and communicate value propositions, success metrics, and outcomes
• Document, review and ensure that all quality and change control standards are met
• Develop, plan, and implement sustainable, repeatable, and reliable processes; oversee process improvement
• Drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics while prioritising external customer needs

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports
• Manage and coordinate strategic direction for staff
• Attract, retains, develop, and motivate top talent
• Review individual development plans and providing performance feedback

• Proficient in leading at a Senior Manager level or above within a fast-paced, multi-division, national company
• Confident in defining, communicating, and driving value propositions, success metrics, and outcomes
• Capable of shaping, aligning, and guiding execution of strategic direction for a domain or significant portfolio segment
• Aptitude for communicating, influencing, and developing relationships with functional and technical leaders, with high-level vendor partners, and across all levels in the organisation
• Ability to select and lead strategic vendor relationships or act as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
• Accomplished in managing and developing direct reports with their own span of control
• Qualified to utilise deep market and industry knowledge for a related portfolio segment or domain to achieve strategic objectives

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -

Head of Print recruitment-Neil Pearson -

Head Paper recruitment - Gary Young -