26 to 50 of 244 Strategic Thinking Jobs in the North of England

Assistant Director, Technology, AI & Data Strategy, Strategy & Business Design

Hiring Organisation
Appcast
Location
Leeds, UK
Permanent/FTC Date published 10-Jul-2026 Req # 21626 Job description Connect to your IndustryAt Deloitte, we empower organisations to unlock the strategic value of technology, AI, and data. Our Technology, AI, and Data Strategy team partners with leading organisations to identify and quantify opportunities for revenue … competitive advantage through data and AI-driven strategies.We specialise in developing and evaluating AI use cases, linking them to measurable business outcomes and strategic priorities. By collaborating with corporate clients and private equity firms, we create robust investment cases and strategic roadmaps that enable organisations to navigate ...

IT Senior Project Manager

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Manager leads the successful delivery of complex projects, with accountability for governance, budgets, risks, quality, resources, stakeholders, and benefits realisation. The role requires strong strategic thinking, effective decision-making, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders to ensure projects deliver sustainable value and positive outcomes for Yorkshire Water … track benefits throughout the project lifecycle to ensure intended outcomes are achieved. Deliver projects within agreed scope, timescales, budget, and quality parameters while meeting strategic business objectives. Successfully deliver complex projects, achieving agreed objectives across scope, schedule, budget, risk, change, and quality measures. Maintain strong financial governance through accurate ...

Global Project Manager (Process Automation)

Location
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
competitive positioning, go-to-market strategy, program governance, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business outcomes including revenue, market share, customer satisfaction, and delivery of strategic initiatives. This is a global position with core teams and stakeholders located in Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Candidates based in these countries … data-driven products Awareness of cybersecurity, data privacy (GDPR, CCPA), and compliance requirements Product analytics tools: Mixpanel, Amplitude, Google Analytics, or similar Soft Skills Strategic thinking and business acumen Communication skills (written and verbal) to influence diverse audiences Analytical and problem-solving mindset Leadership and ability to inspire ...

Lead Data Product Manager (Product Manager II)

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
roadmap, backlog prioritisation, and value realisation, working closely with senior business stakeholders, cross functional delivery teams, and vendor supplied squads. This role operates with strategic authority, influencing product direction, delivery priorities, and operating ways of working, while ensuring measurable business outcomes and long term platform sustainability. Scope of Responsibility … measurement and monetisation strategy Oversight of vendor supplied delivery teams Key Accountabilities Product Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment Own and communicate the vision, value proposition, and strategic direction of data products across business and technology stakeholders. Act as the primary product interface for senior client and business stakeholders. Translate business priorities ...

IT Head of Technology

Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
function, you will be responsible for leading a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team—including Application Managers, Infrastructure Managers, Architects, and Development Leads—turning our strategic vision into operational excellence. Reporting to the Group Head of IT, you will take ownership across six core pillars of our global technology domain: Technology … Vision: Partner with Strategy & Governance to execute our enterprise roadmap, operate within established technology governance frameworks, drive standardisation, and champion data as a key strategic asse t. Solution Implementation & Delivery: Direct complex, global solution rollouts across Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall frameworks, working directly with architects to ensure a smooth ...

Managing Partner - Search Product and Innovation

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Search Specialism Team, driving capability development, community engagement, innovation adoption and industry-leading standards across the practice. Product & Proposition Leadership Define and own the strategic roadmap for Search Product & Innovation across Dentsu. Lead the evolution of the agency's Total Search proposition, ensuring it remains differentiated, commercially viable … Search practice through innovative product development and proposition enhancement. Identify opportunities to create new revenue streams and scalable service offerings. Support major pitches, strategic opportunities and business development initiatives. Partner with client leadership teams to expand Dentsu's role within existing clients. Build commercial business cases for investment ...

Senior Solutions Architect – Cloud & Enterprise

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators … believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world. Why consider joining our Digital & Data community ...

D365 Solution Architect

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators … believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world. Join our Digital & Data team working alongside ...

Lead Product Manager - Data

Hiring Organisation
The Very Group
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 55 K
opportunities.Translate complex data and technical concepts into clear business value and actionable product plans.Prioritise product roadmaps and backlogs based on customer impact, business value, strategic alignment and delivery capacity.Partner with Data Engineering, BI, Governance, Architecture and Delivery teams to shape and deliver high-quality data products.Influence senior stakeholders, balancing … outputs.Identify opportunities to leverage data, analytics and AI to improve customer, colleague and business outcomes.About youWe're seeking an experienced product leader who combines strategic thinking with strong delivery focus and a passion for using data to solve real business problems.You'll bring:Significant experience in Product Management ...

Lead Product Manager - Data

Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
complex data and technical concepts into clear business value and actionable product plans. Prioritise product roadmaps and backlogs based on customer impact, business value, strategic alignment and delivery capacity. Partner with Data Engineering, BI, Governance, Architecture and Delivery teams to shape and deliver high-quality data products. Influence senior … leverage data, analytics and AI to improve customer, colleague and business outcomes. About you We're seeking an experienced product leader who combines strategic thinking with strong delivery focus and a passion for using data to solve real business problems. You’ll bring: Significant experience in Product Management ...

Lead Product Manager - Data

Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
complex data and technical concepts into clear business value and actionable product plans. Prioritise product roadmaps and backlogs based on customer impact, business value, strategic alignment and delivery capacity. Partner with Data Engineering, BI, Governance, Architecture and Delivery teams to shape and deliver high-quality data products. Influence senior … leverage data, analytics and AI to improve customer, colleague and business outcomes. About you We're seeking an experienced product leader who combines strategic thinking with strong delivery focus and a passion for using data to solve real business problems. You'll bring: Significant experience in Product Management ...

Data Architect

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
future.We challenge where it matters and own the outcome.As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary expertscombine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.Our clients adapt and transform, and together … frameworks Infrastructure & DevOpsconcepts andtooling, Semantic models and metrics layers Datagovernance tooling As a Principal Consultant, you will be expected to: Operate at a strategic and leadership-focused level Handle complex client challenges, lead teams, and take ownership of end-to-end assignment delivery Play arole in business growth through ...

Lead Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
TPXImpact Holdings Plc
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90,000
negotiate between needs of technical and non-technical stakeholders Requirements definition and management ability to advise on requirements management approaches and coordinate requirements prioritisation Strategic thinking ability to contribute to the development of strategies and policies Technology systems analysis ability to lead the analysis of IT system capabilities ...

Director of Business Architecture and Strategy

Hiring Organisation
Speedy Hire
Location
Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
senior operational leaders and the Board, you will be responsible for defining and delivering Speedy Hire's Target Operating Model (TOM) and translating our strategic ambitions into sustainable organisational capability. This is a highly influential, enterprise-wide role with responsibility for our business architecture and strategic change agenda. … processes make it easier and more efficient for customers to do business with us. Represent Speedy Hire's operational, digital and transformation capabilities within strategic customer engagements, bids and major account discussions. Lead, develop and inspire multidisciplinary teams across Business Architecture, Project Delivery, Business Analysis and Change Management, creating ...

Assistant Manager, M&A Technology

Hiring Organisation
Deloitte
Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
contracts and IT qualitative information.Supporting the development of key documents for a transaction e.g., Transitional Service Agreements, status reports, SteerCo reports and papers addressing strategic issues.Identifying IT synergies, one-off costs, ongoing costs either within a larger team or as an advisor on smaller engagements.Developing your expertise in reporting … senior executives, facilitating large workshops, benefits tracking, changing control and stakeholder management.Developing your consulting skills in strategic thinking, programme, and change management.Drawing on knowledge and experience across all aspects of IT in business, providing insightful, deal-relevant points of view and recommendations based on robust analysis.Taking ownership ...

Innovation Project Manager

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
about converting those ideas into meaningful outcomes. As an Innovation Project Manager, you will be responsible for taking innovative concepts, emerging technologies and strategic opportunities and transforming them into structured, well-governed initiatives that deliver measurable business value. In some cases, your role will be to prove an idea … innovation investments while ensuring initiatives are delivered responsibly, securely and sustainably. What You'll Be Doing Lead the delivery of innovation initiatives aligned to strategic business objectives. Manage projects through the complete lifecycle, from idea generation and proof of concept through pilot, production delivery and operational handover. Apply ...

Solution Architect

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators … believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer‐centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech‐driven world. Join our Digital & Data team working alongside ...

Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
PA Consulting
Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators … DescriptionWe believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world. Why consider joining our Digital & Data ...

Innovation Project Manager

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
about converting those ideas into meaningful outcomes. What You'll Be Doing Innovation Project Delivery Lead the delivery of innovation initiatives aligned to strategic business objectives. Manage projects through the complete lifecycle, from idea generation and proof of concept through pilot, production delivery and operational handover. Apply the most … measurable success criteria. Facilitate workshops, demonstrations, steering groups and decision-making sessions. Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and ensure initiatives remain aligned to strategic objectives. Innovation & Change Enablement Support experimentation and innovation while maintaining delivery discipline and governance. Coordinate pilots, testing activities and user feedback loops. Partner with ...

Principal Data Management Lead

Hiring Organisation
The Very Group
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
closely with business and technology stakeholders to improve trust, consistency and accessibility of enterprise data.Champion strong data ownership and stewardship models across business domains.Influence strategic programmes and transformation initiatives to ensure Data Management requirements are embedded from the outset.Support the identification and remediation of data-related risks, control weaknesses … levels.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and pragmatic approach.Experience supporting business transformation, change initiatives and continuous improvement programmes.The ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery.A passion for improving trust in data and helping organisations become more data-driven.Some of our benefitsFlexible, hybrid working model ...

Principal Data Management Lead

Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
business and technology stakeholders to improve trust, consistency and accessibility of enterprise data. Champion strong data ownership and stewardship models across business domains. Influence strategic programmes and transformation initiatives to ensure Data Management requirements are embedded from the outset. Support the identification and remediation of data-related risks, control … problem-solving skills, with a proactive and pragmatic approach. Experience supporting business transformation, change initiatives and continuous improvement programmes. The ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery. A passion for improving trust in data and helping organisations become more data-driven. Some of our benefits Flexible, hybrid ...

Senior Speech Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Barclays
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
their usage. Analysis and monitoring of data usage patterns to identify opportunities for data optimisation and improvement, in partnership with the Data Base Administrator. Strategic architecture definition and product selection. Production of logical designs in relevant subject area (technical, data, operational), showing for example: processes, objects, data flows, inputs … assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. The successful candidate can be based in Northampton (Pavilion Drive) or Knutsford (Radbroke Hall ...

Senior Demand Planner

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum Brands (UK) Limited
Location
Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
sharing best practice and supporting the development of others. You will bring a proactive, analytical and continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. 4–6 years' Demand Planning experience. Strong S&OP experience. SAP, SAP S/4HANA ...

Senior Speech Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Barclays
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
developers.You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.The successful candidate can be based in Northampton (Pavilion Drive) or Knutsford ...

Solution Architect

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world. Our teams operate globally from offices across ...