Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) | Professional Services | UK Remote | Board-level Salary, 100% Bonus & Significant Equity

We are partnered with a PE-backed international Professional Services firm, to appoint their Group CIO, a pivotal leadership (Group CEO report) role which will shape and deliver the internal technology and external customer solutions strategy as the organisation aims to increase revenues by c.50% over the next 2-3 years and maximise value.

Currently around £800m revenue, the organisation has grown rapidly in recent years with 100+ acquisitions. This has resulted in a successful, but highly federated business model. In addition to what you would expect, the immediate priorities for the Group CIO include:

• Deliver and optimise a new centralised Group IT TOM across what is currently a federate technology landscape of 300+ employees + contractors & partners.
• Ensure the successful implementation and adoption of a new group wide cloud ERP platform which has just been selected.
• Create and deliver an AI strategy which maximises business value and market opportunities.
• Shape and deliver the future strategy for their current external digital/customer solutions and potentially identify future market opportunities.
• Oversee the development, delivery and running of the company’s digital platforms, ensuring they deliver scalable, secure, and client-centric solutions that support the strategy and Value Creation Plans.
• Ensure the security, integrity and resilience of the company's data and IT systems.

Target Profile Differentiators:

• Exceptional CIO with experience leading both internal IT and external customer solutions in the Professional Services sector (000's employees / c.£500m+ revenue minimum).
• Experience shaping and evolving a group technology operating model, across multiple geographies and business lines.
• Overseen the implementation of a tier-1 cloud ERP platform in the Professional Services sector.
• Experience aligning the technology strategy to the Value Creation Plan in a PE-backed business.
• High-calibre, high-integrity, low-ego. This is genuinely a collaborative and trust-first firm. Personal brand builders won't fit culturally.
• Able to tell a story of how AI and Automation solutions have been adopted to add tangible business value.

The company work truly remotely, across the UK and Europe, with central London being the most likely location for meet ups. We are open to appointing a Group CIO in the UK&I, or the Nordics.

Culture is hugely important here. The organisation is on 2–3 year value optimisation timeline which will ultimately result in significant equity return. It is essential that the Group CIO is an exceptional communicator who can articulate and execute a strategy quickly, in line with the company VCP and culture.

We are looking to conduct interviews over the last 2 weeks of September, with view to shortlisting at the start of October 2025.