Chief Information Officer

UK based | Confidential executive search

Lead technology. Shape business change. Deliver lasting operational impact.

We are supporting a manufacturing business in the appointment of a Chief Information Officer to shape its technology agenda and lead significant business and digital transformation.

This opportunity calls for a commercially minded technology leader who understands manufacturing, has navigated complex carve-outs and can turn strategic ambition into practical change across people, processes, data and systems.

You will bring the judgement to modernise the business while maintaining the reliability and continuity on which operations depend.

Working closely with senior business leaders, you will connect technology investment with operational priorities and establish a clear, achievable transformation roadmap.

Your focus will include:

• Shaping technology strategy around business performance, resilience and future growth.
• Leading complex change across enterprise applications, manufacturing systems, infrastructure and data.
• Simplifying fragmented processes and technology environments, balancing common standards with operational needs.
• Strengthening the connection between enterprise IT and operational technology, with clear ownership of service continuity and cyber resilience.
• Building effective teams, developing capability and holding delivery partners accountable.
• Establishing disciplined investment and programme governance, with measurable benefits and sustained adoption.

We are looking for an established CIO or equivalent senior technology executive with three essential elements in their background:

• Manufacturing: substantial leadership experience within complex manufacturing operations, with a practical understanding of production, engineering, supply chain and the wider value chain.
• Carve-outs: direct accountability for technology separation, including disentangling systems, data, services and supplier arrangements while protecting business continuity. Experience of transitional service agreements and establishing independent capabilities is particularly relevant.
• Major transformation: demonstrable delivery of substantial digital and business change, spanning technology, operating models, processes and organisational adoption.

You will also bring strong executive stakeholder skills, commercial and financial judgement, and experience leading distributed teams through uncertainty.

All enquiries will be handled discreetly.