Sales Chief Technology Officer, UK&I

United Kingdom - Hampshire - Farnborough

Description and Requirements

Would you like to build and evolve a new, scalable CTO function aligned with our transformation? Can you shape the future of technology strategy and drive real business impact?

As the UK & Ireland Commercial CTO, you will play a pivotal role at the heart of the One Lenovo transformation. You will connect business strategy with technical excellence, bringing together sales, solutioning, and innovation to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers and drive sustainable growth. This is a completely new highly visible leadership role where your ability to influence, simplify, and execute will define success across the UK&I market.

This is a commercial, customer-facing CTO role focused on driving growth through technology strategy, solutioning, and innovation, rather than product engineering or internal IT. The core role is growing solution-led revenue, increasing win rates & enabling cross-portfolio selling. In this role, you will expand influence beyond the direct team.

Main Responsibilities

• Define and lead the end-to-end commercial technology strategy across the UK & Ireland market
• Partner with Sales Leadership to translate customer demand into scalable, solution-led growth opportunities
• Lead a team of approximately 10+ people in technical sales, solutioning and pre-sales across business groups. Lead capability development by identifying skill gaps and enabling hiring, reskilling, and growth
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior customers and partners, engaging at C-level to shape transformation agendas
• Establish a strong operating rhythm across account planning, forecasting, and pipeline management
• Champion adoption of AI tools and digital solutions to improve productivity and sales effectiveness

Role Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the technology sector, including senior technology leadership role within a large IT vendor or similar organization.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience aligning technology strategy to revenue growth
• Deep knowledge of enterprise technology solutions and go-to-market models
• Proven leadership experience managing technical sales or solutioning teams
• Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including C-level executives
• You thrive in complex, matrix environments and can drive alignment across diverse teams
• Track record of leading transformation initiatives and driving change
• You are highly analytical, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights

Success in 12-18 months

• Establish a market-leading commercial CTO function that accelerates One Lenovo by driving solution-led growth, improving win rates, and embedding AI-enabled selling across the UK&I business.
• Create seamless alignment between sales, technology, and partners, enabling a consistent, customer-centric value proposition that unlocks cross-portfolio growth.

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape market-wide technology strategy and drive business transformation
• High visibility role with direct exposure to senior leadership
• Collaborative, international environment within a globally recognized brand
• Career growth opportunities across regions, functions, and business units
• Competitive compensation and performance-based rewards
• Access to cutting-edge technology, innovation, and AI-driven tools
• Ongoing professional and leadership development programs
• Flexible working approach supporting work-life balance

We are open to candidates from a range of backgrounds, including adjacent industries and non-linear career paths, and encourage applications from individuals who bring diverse perspectives.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, or disability.

Additional Locations: United Kingdom - Hampshire - Farnborough