IT Manager – Manufacturing | IT operations

Bury

£60k – £70k + Benefits

20 month FTC

Keywords: IT manager, systems manager, head of IT, infrastructure Lead, Telecoms, VOIP, Skype for business, Teams voice, ERP, CRM, Dynamics NAV, transformation, Technology, cloud, Azure.

A newly-created role for an IT Manager to join a Global Manufacturer and lead their UK IT department. Over the last 12-18 months, this tech-driven business have been undergoing a global consolidation of their IT & Systems and now have a range of upcoming cloud projects, which you'll lead – particularly within Telecoms – focussing on implementation of VoIP / Unified Communications platforms (Teams Voice, Skype for Business etc).

Along with this, you'll also get the opportunity to lead a variety of other transformation projects in other areas of IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.

Based in their Bury head office, you'll be given autonomy to shape the IT operations and strategic planning – including innovation, organisation and resource allocation. You'll have done a similar IT Manager / Systems Manager role before and have developed fantastic stakeholder management skills, and a track record defining and implementing IT policies, procedures and best practices.

Experience within an international manufacturing business would be advantageous, but most important you'll have a strong commercial background in IT operations management and have excellent man and project management skills.

Other key skills include:

Experience with ERP, CRM, BI and machine integrations, specifically Dynamics NAV, SharePoint, Teams, Teams Voice, other core Microsoft products such as Azure.
Working knowledge of Change Control and Document Management processes.
Proficient use of Microsoft Office products at expert level.
Significant Telecoms experience, preferable VoIP and/or Unified Communications (Teams, Skype for Business etc).Keywords: IT manager, systems manager, head of IT, infrastructure Lead, Telecoms, VOIP, Skype for business, Teams voice, ERP, CRM, Dynamics NAV, transformation, Technology, cloud, Azure