At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and develop IT strategy, manage a small team, and modernise technology.
- Company: Well-known Australian business with a strong production and warehousing operation.
- Benefits: Direct access to decision makers, career development, and a hands-on leadership role.
- Other info: Opportunity to make a real impact in a brand-new position.
- Why this job: Shape the future of IT in a dynamic environment with executive support.
- Qualifications: Hands-on IT experience, leadership skills, and commercial thinking.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 $ per year.
Our client is a Australian business with a household name and its own production and warehousing operation.
They've grown to the point where IT needs a proper leader to take ownership of modernizing and automating their technology.
The opportunity
You'll own IT end to end: strategy, delivery, vendors and a small internal team. You'll report to the CFO so you'll have direct access to decision makers and no layers in the way.
It's hands-on IT Manager, who will be acting as the escalation point as well as setting the roadmap for the business.
- What you'll be doing
- Leading and developing a small team across infrastructure, software and support
- Bringing infrastructure and network management in-house and reducing reliance on external providers
- Building an IT roadmap and getting a sizeable project backlog moving
- Improving a complex legacy environment
- Supporting key business initiatives through technology automation
- Managing specialist vendors on a needs basis and knowing when to call them in
- Documenting systems and knowledge so the business isn't reliant on individuals
- What you'll bring
- Hands-on infrastructure depth: Windows Server, VMware, firewalls, switching, wireless and endpoint management
- Experience leading IT in a lean SME or mid-market environment
- Experience managing, transitioning or procuring MSPs and vendors
- Commercial thinking: you bring solutions with a cost and a benefit attached
- Good judgement under pressure, and the ability to tell a real business problem from noise
- A practical, outcome-focused attitude
- Manufacturing, warehousing or distribution background
- Experience integrating inventory, sales and finance systems
- Why this role
- A brand-new position with a clear mandate and executive backing
- Broad scope across infrastructure, applications, data, vendors and people
- A leader who will invest in your development
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