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Head of Technology Planning

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Primark Stores Limited
ensuring alignment with Primark goals and objectives. Run the overall Technology Delivery Plan, ensuring that we have a single plan that captures all interdependencies and is aligned to the business transformation plan. Ensure all initiatives that affects the business are appropriately controlled and governed, seamlessly implemented and delivered at the right quality. Oversee evaluation of technology investments, budgets … initiatives/portfolio health, driving visibility, validating viability based on constraints (resources, capacity, budget) and implementing strategies. Lead the delivery management discipline, owning the provision of programme, project and business analyst resourcing Develop and execute comprehensive technology transformation strategies, including change management plans, to drive successful organisational change. Be a key leadership voice, connecting with the business EPMO … consistency in ways of working in the process Prepare and present regular performance reports to senior management, stakeholders, and technology teams, providing insights, trends, and recommendations optimisation. Own the Strategy to Portfolio demand process and actively manage complex demand, dependencies between initiatives and deliver roadmaps, coordinating both technology and business change Work closely with teams, including partners, to More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Programme Director – Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Reading, England, United Kingdom
JR United Kingdom
Views: 4 Posted: 26.06.2025 Expiry Date: 10.08.2025 col-wide Job Description: insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to … trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity. Learn more at insightsoftware.com insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to … scoping through adoption while dedicating up to 50 % of your time to pre‐sales activities that generate professional‐services revenue. Partnering closely with Sales Directors, you will shape deal strategy, scope Statements of Work (SOWs), and present executive‐level delivery proposals. Internally, you will mentor and coach a team of Solution Architects and Consultants, safeguard delivery excellence, and own More ❯
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Programme Lead

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Computacenter AG & Co. oHG
Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Reading Job-ID: 212916 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: Project Management Life on the team As a Programme Lead in GIS Programme Delivery, you will be leading a portfolio for a specific part of Computacenter's business - aligned to a … strategic business partner/engagement lead function managing large complex programmes, along with less complex smaller projects/workstreams within a particular portfolio. Your scope of activity will range from liaising directly with the strategic business partner/engagement lead function to work collaboratively on the evaluation, initiation, through delivery and into closure of each initiative within the … Delivery: Experienced in the initiation of programmes/projects, defining the scope, agree requirements, coordinate and plan resource requirements, produce the cost model and necessary plans - supporting the strategic business partners/engagement leads/business in the creation of necessary business cases Accountable for the production of all required project documentation to enable successful project outcomes More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Systems Architect

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Visa
and application development considering intersections with other initiatives and platforms. Provide architectural guidance to application development leaders to create adaptable and cost-efficient solutions for both tactical and strategic business needs. Serve as the point of contact for Engineers in solution design and build Review and sign off detailed design artifacts, as required, ensuring adherence to the high-level … ago Lead Digital-UX Platform Architect - NESO Sindlesham, England, United Kingdom 6 days ago Slough, England, United Kingdom 3 months ago Slough, England, United Kingdom 3 months ago D365 Business Applications Practice Champion Marlow, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago Oxford, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago Senior Software Engineer – UK - Client Applications Reading, England, United Kingdom 1 day More ❯
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Solutions Architect

Reading, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Millbank Holdings
Have you worked with Deltek Costpoint or similar ERP systems? If so, what was your role, and how did you ensure the system delivered measurable business outcomes? Do you have hands-on experience with Deltek Costpoint or similar ERP systems? If so, in what capacity? Have you experience of collaborating with vendors and delivery partners to ensure a solution … delivers its intended business value? If your answer is yes, we would love to hear from you so please read on for further information and get in touch now to avoid missing out! The Opportunity Are you ready to play a pivotal role in aligning business vision with smart, scalable technical solutions? We re looking for a Solutions … Architect who thrives at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution. This is a hands-on leadership role where your expertise will directly influence the success of enterprise software implementations across our organisation. Your duties and responsibilities will be: Business Alignment: Translate functional requirements into effective solution designs that integrate seamlessly with our processes and systems. More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: GBP Annual
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Solution Architect - Data

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Keyloop
technical blueprint that empowers the organization to become truly data-driven. Main Duties/Responsibilities Lead the design and evolution of Keyloop's enterprise data architecture, ensuring alignment with business strategies and technology platforms. Define data principles, governance frameworks, and architectural standards for enterprise data, analytics, and integration platforms. Own the data strategy for structured and unstructured data … data models, data flow architectures, and system integrations to support analytics, operational reporting, AI/ML, and real-time decision-making. Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, solution architects, and business stakeholders to define and document data needs and data platform capabilities. Drive implementation of modern data architecture patterns (e.g., data lakes, lakehouses, data mesh, real-time streaming). Establish … e.g., GDPR) and internal governance standards. Lead evaluation and integration of data tools, platforms, and technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Kafka, dbt, Power BI). Oversee data integration strategy across the enterprise-including ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, and event-driven data streaming. Contribute to the development of a Data Center of Excellence (CoE) by sharing knowledge, reusable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Solution Architect - Data

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Keyloop
technical blueprint that empowers the organization to become truly data-driven. Main Duties/Responsibilities Lead the design and evolution of Keyloop’s enterprise data architecture, ensuring alignment with business strategies and technology platforms Define data principles, governance frameworks, and architectural standards for enterprise data, analytics, and integration platforms Own the data strategy for structured and unstructured data … data models, data flow architectures, and system integrations to support analytics, operational reporting, AI/ML, and real-time decision-making Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, solution architects, and business stakeholders to define and document data needs and data platform capabilities Drive implementation of modern data architecture patterns (e.g., data lakes, lakehouses, data mesh, real-time streaming) Establish data … regulations (e.g., GDPR) and internal governance standards Lead evaluation and integration of data tools, platforms, and technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Kafka, dbt, Power BI) Oversee data integration strategy across the enterprise—including ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, and event-driven data streaming Contribute to the development of a Data Center of Excellence (CoE) by sharing knowledge, reusable More ❯
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Consulting Technology Programme Manager (PV Systems)

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
Title: Consulting Technology Programme Manager (PV Systems) Job Type : Full-Time Job Description: Programme Manager will be responsible for the successful orchestration of interrelated projects that together deliver significant business value to both clients and the organisation. The ideal candidate will provide strategic oversight, ensure alignment with organizational objectives, and lead senior project managers and cross-functional teams to … the areas of pharmacovigilance, safety, and regulatory technology. Key Responsibilities: Define, lead, and manage the successful execution of complex, multi-workstream programmes for pharmaceutical clients. Align programme objectives with business strategy and ensure that all projects within the programme contribute to defined outcomes. Provide governance and direction across projects, managing dependencies, inter[1]project risks, and overall programme … key escalation point for internal stakeholders and external clients, including executive sponsors and regulatory contacts. Lead stakeholder engagement at all levels, ensuring transparent communication, change management, and alignment across business and technical teams. Coordinate and oversee the work of multiple project managers, and third-party contributors to ensure cohesion across deliverables. Maintain tight control of programme scope and oversee More ❯
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Principal Solution Consultant

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Aspen Technology
fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role We are seeking thought leaders, who have a passion for showing our customers a better way to solve their business challenges. As a Principal Solution Consultant, you will partner with AspenTech sales teams during the sales cycle to lead in consultative discovery process with customers, craft a vision and … solution that addresses customer requirements, identifying differentiated value capture potential, and an implementation/sustainment program for that solution. This involves maintaining a keen understanding of the AspenTech product strategy, value enablers, professional services and partner execution capabilities, and sales pipeline to drive opportunities where AspenTech solutions can bring significant business value to our customers and to AspenTech. … fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role We are seeking thought leaders, who have a passion for showing our customers a better way to solve their business challenges. As a Principal Solution Consultant, you will partner with AspenTech sales teams during the sales cycle to lead in consultative discovery process with customers, craft a vision and More ❯
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Security programme Manager

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Primark Stores Limited
holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria. Primark Perks - Discounts with some local partner business to our office. Purpose of the Role Primark Technology is on a transformation journey supporting the business strategy which includes modernising our operating model as well as … strategic objectives/maturity gaps/audit points. Advise and lead on solutions with our internal teams/outsourced partners, having a 'hands on approach' including the construction of business cases and contractual arrangements. Have a metric based approach with a structure to enable auditing and managing vendor performance. Coordinating resources, preparing delivery teams for kick-off and ensure … qualification or experience Desirable Be a passionate and visionary technologist able to inspire others to challenge and disrupt the current reality to co-create a compelling technology-orientated future business by: Being able to scan potential technologies (established, emerging and emergent). Finding ways to translate that into business opportunities. Be able to take people along with you More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Demand Manager

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Primark Stores Limited
single front door for all investment and change initiatives across the business. This is a new role in the organisation and will be the central point of contact for business owners and strategic pillar sponsors which will involve engaging with business stakeholders to collate, screen and assess demand, facilitating the estimation and sizing of demand, as well as … supporting in the determination of the impact of the demand across the business and the multiyear change plan. The Demand Partner will also be responsible for tracking and reporting on the status of demand on the enterprise-wide portfolio, as well as the identification of any dependencies and risks of demand across the enterprise wide portfolio. What You'll … Ensure the appropriate categorization and routing of initiatives through relevant governance fora, submitted through the demand management processes. Facilitate cross functional sizing of all new demand in conjunction with strategy, finance, technology and various stakeholders across the business. Work in collaboration with the EPMO team and stakeholder across the business to ensure demand is fully understood, sized and More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Network Architect

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
to join a dynamic Technology Delivery Team. This role is critical to designing and implementing high-quality technical solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and strategic business goals. Key Responsibilities: Create and maintain solution design documents in line with SDLC and business requirements. Provide architecture services across multiple business domains, from project initiation to … party IT deliverables, ensuring alignment with architectural principles. Lead infrastructure and integration design efforts, including cloud (Azure), on-prem, and hybrid environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and develop scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions. Produce technical specifications and documentation for internal and external stakeholders. Required Skills & Experience: Proven experience in enterprise-level architecture design More ❯
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Endur Technical Architect

Reading, England, United Kingdom
JR United Kingdom
matter experts, Product owners. designers, technical leads and other architects to re-architect/design needs of next generation Gas and Power trading platform with modern technologies, consistent with business and technology strategies. Deep knowledge of energy trading and risk management processes across front, middle and back-office functionalities with an emphasis on physical trading. What you will do … requirement gathering, analysis and design across functional, non-functional technical, and operational domains. Thought leader in respective domain, will be the key advisor to delivery and design reviews. Handling business changes and managing stakeholder expectations Manage communication across multiple teams, vendors, and consulting staff Knowledge of deal lifecycle What you will have: Strong functional understanding of physical trading preferably More ❯
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Microsoft Fabric Consultant

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
Social network you want to login/join with: At Ingentive, we believe every teammate is a representative of our business and its values. As a leading Microsoft Elite Partner, we are passionate about delivering innovative Microsoft solutions that improve the way people work. The advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform products allow us to help our clients progress … Azure and Power BI to join our dynamic team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with cutting-edge technology, developing robust data architectures, and leading strategic business intelligence initiatives. If you’re excited about helping organizations unlock their data’s full potential, we want to hear from you. Proven experience in data engineering with exposure to More ❯
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Director, Customer Retention, Strategy & Programs

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Adobe
and you will join at an opportune time to design, develop and help deliver our future by partnering with our Regional VPs and Retention leaders to help define the strategy and operations of a best-in-class renewals sales force, and support outstanding execution by the renewals sales organisation. As the Director of Retention Strategy and Operations, EMEA … reporting into the Snr Director of EMEA Sales Strategy and Operations, you will be responsible for driving growth on the renewals book of business within our EMEA Digital Experience business. You will have a customer experience mindset in all aspects, and have a demonstrated history successfully creating, executing on, and optimizing business models in a highly agile … refine the renewal forecasting cadence, processes and artifacts, driving predictability. Develop and action productivity and performance reporting of renewals management, individuals and account opportunity. Support and optimise the renewals strategy including core sales processes and efficiency drivers, infrastructure and automation, regional performance and Enterprise Data Driven Operating model. Establish highly repeatable (and scalable) sales processes, automation and reporting methodology More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Infrastructure Architect

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
WeAreTechWomen
we continue to deliver for our customers. LI-KS1 The delivery of new IT services to support new applications and services is a key part of Three's overall business strategy and underpins the success of the business. IT Infrastructure Services support the implementation of new IT systems through the design and build of new IT platforms to … host business applications. IT Infrastructure Services are responsible for delivering IT infrastructure within Three, supporting over 200 significant new Infrastructure requests per year. Scope: Responsible for Infrastructure Architecture Roadmaps and design governance for multiple Infrastructure disciplines. Including Azure, VMware, Citrix and Active Directory The role will be required to work closely with the Infrastructure Delivery team, outsourced delivery functions … and other areas within Three's business to ensure the successful delivery of new Infrastructure services. Responsibilities: Be responsible for all aspects of Infrastructure Architecture, Design and Delivery. Provides Consulting to teams within Three's business and outsourced delivery partners. Work with key technology vendors to understand industry trends and to define future state architectures. Initiation and governance More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Customer Relationship Manager

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
OpenText
representing their challenges to leadership and fostering a culture of high performance and Customer focus and will regularly set goals and priorities that clearly align with the Customers' desired business outcomes and long-term success. Besides proactively sharing successful best practices and promoting collaboration, a strong ability to influence at all levels of business is very welcome as … to ensure organizational alignment. Managing large strategic and mid-market enterprise cloud customers and proactively nurturing the customers to referenceable and successful renewal. Direct responsibility for renewal activities from strategy to close. Executing activities in the Success Plan using best practices, monitoring delivery projects to ensure success, helping mitigate risks, facilitating decision making, and successful execution of renewal close … plan. Delivering outcome-driven Success Workshops and conducting regular engagement with Customer Business owners, change managers and end users to obtain success data and identify areas where the use of OpenText is adding value to the business. Preparing and conducting success plan reviews, governance forums, and quarterly business success reviews to curate executive-level scorecards and success metric More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Endur Architect - Power Trading | Global Energy Firm

Reading, England, United Kingdom
JR United Kingdom
role focused on delivering the next-generation Gas & Power trading architecture using modern, scalable technology. Key Responsibilities: Architect and design a bespoke Endur-based energy trading platform, aligned with business and technology strategy. Collaborate with SMEs, product owners, technical leads, and architects to define and document architectural decisions and trade-offs. Lead across front, middle, and Back Office domains More ❯
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Enterprise Systems Architect

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Liberty Blume Business Solutions Ltd
for Enterprise Systems, this is a key role in the development of Liberty Blume's outsourcing capabilities. This individual will be responsible for defining and evolving the Enterprise Systems Strategy in line with the long-term business vision. What will you be doing? Working with Shared Services and business strategy partners to understand business imperatives … organisational vision, and medium to long-term objectives. Define and own the target landscape view of systems to fulfill Shared Services' business vision and realize business and organisational objectives. Collaborate with delivery teams on streams impacting ERP Systems; make decisions on open items and resolve solution architecture differences where relevant. Maintain a map of core business capabilities …/technologies across Operating Companies, identifying overlaps and inefficiencies. Propose metrics for comparing systems across Operating Companies and use these to identify and prioritize rationalization opportunities. Review and approve business requirements and proposed solutions from a business architecture and strategy perspective. Conduct reviews and gap analyses on current processes and configurations, making recommendations for improvements. Research and More ❯
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Enterprise Systems Architect

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Liberty Global
Systems, this is a key role in the development of Liberty Blume's outsourcing capabilities. This individual will be responsible for the definition and evolution of the Enterprise Systems Strategy in line with the long-term business vision. What will you be doing? Working with Shared Services and business strategy partners to understand business imperatives … organisational vision, and medium to long-term objectives. Define and own target landscape view of systems to fulfil Shared Services business vision and realise business and organisational objectives. Work with delivery teams on streams that impact ERP Systems; make decisions on any open items and resolve differences concerning solution architecture, where relevant. Maintain a map of which core … business capabilities are implemented by which systems/technology across Op Cos, identifying overlaps and inefficiencies. Propose metrics for comparing systems across Op Co and use these important metrics to identify and prioritise rationalisation opportunities. Review/approve business requirements and proposed solutions from a business architecture/strategy perspective. Carry out reviews and gap analysis More ❯
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Product Owner

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Point of Rental Software
primary responsibilities for owning the product backlog and leading sprint planning and execution. Point of Rental Software provides smart, scalable rental and inventory management software to over 4,800 business locations of all sizes and industries. The Product Owner participates on a cross-functional Agile Scrum team to develop and maintain Point of Rental software products to support customer … acquisition and retention, based on the customer’s needs, the competitive landscape, industry trends, and business value to the company. Their leadership and product knowledge guide the Design and Development teams’ efforts and ensure the development requirements are met. The Product Owner works as a peer with the Product Managers to ensure the execution aligns with the Product strategy and business goals. Duties & Responsibilities Own, prioritise, and maintain the Product Backlog, including defining epics, writing user stories, documenting defects, and defining acceptance criteria and business requirements documents to support design, development, and testing efforts. Working with stakeholders, plan and execute Sprints that balance initiatives of Product Roadmap, Customer Satisfaction, Technical Innovation and Debt. Collaborate with Product More ❯
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Product Owner

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Point of Rental Software
primary responsibilities for owning the product backlog and leading sprint planning and execution. Point of Rental Software provides smart, scalable rental and inventory management software to over 4,800 business locations of all sizes and industries. The Product Owner participates on a cross-functional Agile Scrum team to develop and maintain Point of Rental software products to support customer … acquisition and retention, based on the customer’s needs, the competitive landscape, industry trends, and business value to the company. Their leadership and product knowledge guide the Design and Development teams’ efforts and ensure the development requirements are met. The Product Owner works as a peer with the Product Managers to ensure the execution aligns with the Product strategy and business goals. Duties & Responsibilities Own, prioritise, and maintain the Product Backlog, including defining epics, writing user stories, documenting defects, and defining acceptance criteria and business requirements documents to support design, development, and testing efforts. Working with stakeholders, plan and execute Sprints that balance initiatives of Product Roadmap, Customer Satisfaction, Technical Innovation and Debt. Collaborate with Product More ❯
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Managing Director

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
has arisen for a Managing Director to lead the UK operations of a major European supplier of custom electronic components and solutions. With over 50 years of heritage, this business partners with leading-edge customers across the Transportation, Medical, Industrial, Renewable Energy, Aerospace, and Defence sectors. The company is poised for continued growth, supported by extensive engineering resources, specialist … the chance to make a significant commercial and strategic impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Role Overview: As Managing Director, you will lead the UK commercial and operational strategy, driving revenue growth, profitability, and market expansion. You will provide inspirational leadership to Sales Management, Field Sales, Inside Sales, and technical teams, while maintaining strong operational controls over P … product offerings and custom design capabilities. You will also foster a high-performance culture, recruiting, developing, and motivating teams to exceed targets. Key Responsibilities: Develop and execute the UK business and sales strategy aligned with wider European objectives. Full P&L responsibility including bookings, billings, gross margin and EBIT delivery. Drive customer acquisition and design funnel activity through More ❯
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Finance BI Data Lead - Interim

Reading, England, United Kingdom
JR United Kingdom
/join with: On behalf of our client, HW Interim Solutions are seeking a Finance BI Data Lead to help bridge technical delivery and strategic finance insight, drive data strategy and lead key projects within the Finance BI function, for a 6 month engagement. This is a hands-on role combining strong SQL and ETL expertise with the ability … into the Head of BI, the successful candidate will work closely with finance teams, system accountants, and senior leadership to ensure reporting is accurate, scalable, and aligned to wider business goals. From designing robust data pipelines to mentoring team members and championing best practice, this role bridges the gap between technical delivery and strategic business insight. Candidates will More ❯
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Key Account Director

Reading, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
proven track record of managing complex enterprise-level accounts. You will be responsible for delivering exceptional service, driving revenue growth, and positioning their ERP solutions as critical enablers of business transformation. Key Responsibilities: Account Management & Growth: Manage 4-5 high-value, strategic enterprise accounts in the Retail and Manufacturing sectors across the UK. Develop and execute tailored account strategies … and growth. Act as the main point of contact for senior stakeholders within each account, providing expert guidance and support up on their solutions. Identify and capitalize on new business opportunities within your accounts, driving revenue growth through up-selling, cross-selling, and expansion of existing relationships. Strategic ERP Advisory & Consulting: Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, understanding … their business challenges and providing tailored ERP solutions to meet their needs. Work closely with internal teams (sales, technical, product) to ensure the successful implementation and ongoing optimisation of ERP solutions. Provide insights and recommendations to improve operational efficiency, leveraging ERP features and functionalities to drive business value. Customer Success & Satisfaction: Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and More ❯
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Business Strategy
Reading
10th Percentile
£62,500
25th Percentile
£70,000
Median
£85,000
75th Percentile
£91,250
90th Percentile
£93,500