1 to 25 of 44 Strategic Thinking Jobs in West Yorkshire

AI Architect

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
agentic systems; choose platforms and patterns teams can reuse; and hold the line on quality, governance, and operational readiness. The role requires strategic thinking and strong business acumen. We are a fast moving, constantly developing business with an evolving technology platform within a very fast-moving requirement environment. … considered, flexible, well-versed in technological trends and pathways, familiar with a variety of business concepts and a strong communicator of strategic and operational IT planning and activity to a non-technical audience. Key Responsibilities Be an active part of the company’s technology and AI vision and support ...

Enterprise Systems Advisory Lead

Location
Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Payroll, and Corporate Applications evolve to support both Liberty Blume and our growing customer base. This is a highly visible leadership role that combines strategic thinking, enterprise architecture, business development, and advisory delivery. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, HR, Technology, Procurement, and Operations … leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve automation, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes. Partner with business leaders, system owners, and customers to translate strategic goals into technology roadmaps and transformation plans. Lead Enterprise Systems advisory engagements, providing strategic guidance and architecture governance across programmes and initiatives. Support solution ...

Sr. Manager, Tech., Insights & Analytics

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
across global real estate, facilities management, and capital project delivery. This role ensures that leadership has accurate, timely, and decision‐ready insights to guide strategic investments, portfolio optimization, and execution performance. Operating as the enterprise data and insights owner, this role drives end‐to‐end data strategy—from systems … architecture to analytics, dashboards, and external insights—supporting RE/FM/Government Services governance, site construction, renovations, expansions, and strategic capital projects. Scope of Role Enterprise scope: Global Real Estate, Facilities Management, and Capital Project Delivery Functional scope: Digital systems, data strategy, analytics, reporting, external insights Geographic reach ...

IT Senior Project Manager

Location
Bradford, 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 ...

Product Manager

Location
Ilkley, England, United Kingdom
stakeholder feedback, support backlog management, and help coordinate successful product releases. You'll develop your product management skills while gaining exposure to both strategic thinking and day-to-day product delivery. Success in this role means becoming a trusted member of the product team, helping deliver features … stakeholder management skills Previous experience within a B2B SaaS environment Experience owning and driving product backlogs, user story creation, and prioritisation activities Strong analytical thinking, organisation, and problem-solving skills Exposure to customer discovery, user research, or product analytics tools Experience contributing to product launches or feature releases Relevant ...

Seinor Technical Architect

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
design solutions that improve productivity, strengthen security and support DWP's ongoing digital transformation. This is a role where you'll influence strategic decisions, shape future technology direction and help deliver modern digital services at an extraordinary scale. Whether your focus is collaboration platforms and document management solutions … services, AI-powered productivity tools, information governance and future ways of working. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to combine strategic thinking with technical expertise while delivering meaningful outcomes that improve services for both colleagues and citizens. Location You'll join ...

Senior Solutions Architect (Data & AI)

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
recognised technical specialisation that makes you a force multiplier across your team and region. You operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise, strategic account planning, and executive influence. The Impact You Will Have Drive the technical and consumption strategy for the organisation's most complex customer engagements, directly … influence Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders on long-term data and AI strategy Experience leading competitive displacements and complex enterprise evaluations Strong strategic thinking — connecting technical architecture decisions to business outcomes and revenue impact Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative ...

IT Solution Architect

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
applications, POS and data teams to ensure solutions are fit for the future. Evaluate vendor and third-party solutions for technical suitability, integration and strategic fit. Support major transformation initiatives, including POS, data, network and business mobilisation programmes. Champion best-practice architecture and build strong relationships across ...

ERP Analyst Team Lead

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
have:* Extensive knowledge of Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials, with the ability to translate business requirements into practical system solutions* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills, combined with a delivery-focused approach* Proven stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills, working effectively across Finance, IT, and business teams ...

Product Manager

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
leading cross-functional teams, mentoring less experienced colleagues, and working closely with stakeholders to align on priorities and commercial goals. You’ll balance strategic thinking with hands‐on delivery—from shaping product vision and guiding design, to managing backlogs and overseeing launches. Success in this role means creating ...

Reporting Accountant SME (24-Month FTC)

Location
Castleford, England, United Kingdom
Ability to simplify complex reporting requirements. Collaborative and influential across multiple business functions. Continuous improvement and automation mindset. Strong attention to detail balanced with strategic thinking. Delivers reporting solutions that support both operational effectiveness and compliance requirements. Additional Information: Posted: 28/07/2026 Closing date for applications ...

Head of Design

Location
Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
business, you will play a key role in setting creative direction, developing talent and ensuring consistently high standards across client projects. This is a strategic leadership position for someone who can bring together different creative disciplines, challenge thinking and deliver work that combines creativity with commercial impact. … campaign-led work. Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams, bringing together different skill sets to deliver outstanding work. Confident presenting creative concepts and strategic recommendations to senior clients and stakeholders. Strong commercial awareness, with experience managing budgets, resources, project delivery and team utilisation. The ability to balance creative ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - 600 per day + None
wider risks & implications. - Commercial skills - uses an understanding of the cost base in own area to improve profitability/develops and monitors engineering budget. - Strategic thinking skills - develops strategy and long term plans and objectives for own area/re-designs processes & ways of working to meet long ...

Senior Account Manager - Health

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
support meaningful conversations and account planning. Contribute to bid responses and commercial shaping for a defined value range of opportunities (and support larger strategic pursuits led by the Client Partner). Staffing & Onboarding Forecast capability demand across call-off contracts and ensure the pipeline aligns with the roles ...

Senior IT Manager

Location
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Industry background? We’re flexible. What matters most is your ability to combine strong technical understanding with outstanding leadership skills, someone who can balance strategic vision with practical delivery and foster a culture of trust, growth, and excellence. If you’re passionate about leading people, influencing technology direction … Proven experience leading IT teams and managing infrastructure operations Strong technical understanding of Microsoft technologies and cloud platforms Ability to balance technical insight with strategic thinking Excellent communication skills for board-level engagement What’s on Offer: Basic salary up to £75,000 plus bonus An exceptional benefits ...

People Business Partner-3 month FTC

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
experienced HR professional who thrives on partnering with leaders, influencing change, and creating people solutions that drive business performance. You'll combine strategic thinking with hands‐on delivery, supporting everything from workforce planning and organisational development to employee engagement, talent development, inclusion, and people analytics. … passionate about helping people and businesses thrive together, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll be doing to make a difference: Strategic People Partnership Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, ensuring people strategies support business growth, innovation, and transformation. Partner with managers on workforce planning ...

Data Market Architecture & Decision Framework Consultant

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£400.00 - £800.00 per day
informed brand and marketing decisions. The Company They are a specialist consultancy that helps organisations launch, grow, and strengthen brands through a combination of strategic thinking, market insight, and creative expertise. Their approach blends quantitative and qualitative research to support evidence-based decision making. As part … models, market frameworks, or decision-making methodologies. Proven capability in building scalable blueprints, frameworks, or operating models for business use. Experience challenging and validating strategic approaches through research, testing, and structured analysis. Strong understanding of marketing, brand performance, and commercial decision-making processes. Ability to translate complex analytical concepts ...

Product Director: Social Care & Education

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
lead the successful delivery of customer value across multiple products and markets. This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who combines strategic thinking with strong execution. You will influence senior stakeholders, balance commercial opportunities with customer needs, and ensure product investment decisions deliver measurable outcomes. What … provide clear performance reporting Influence senior leaders on trade-offs, priorities and investment decisions Ensure products meet regulatory, compliance and governance requirements Lead strategic partnerships and cross-functional collaboration Build product capability, leadership succession and high-performing teams Promote responsible adoption of AI, supported by appropriate governance and oversight ...

Head of PMO

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
project delivery. You will create consistency across our portfolio, increase confidence in the information used for decision-making and evolve the PMO into a strategic capability that improves outcomes for customers and the business. What you'll be doing Establish the Foundations Define common portfolio reporting, governance and control … senior stakeholders and influencing decisions Excellent people leadership and capability development skills Experience with portfolio financials, capacity planning, risks and dependencies Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution Experience with Power BI, advanced Excel, PSA/PPM tools, Jira, Confluence, Precursive, OpenAir or MS Project would ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
StepChange Debt Charity
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
cloud-native architectures will enable you to drive quality and consistency across the engineering function. You'll thrive in an Agile environment, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on technical delivery. Whether you're mentoring engineers, leading architectural decisions, improving development processes, or modernising legacy applications built on Angular ...

Business Development Director - Commercial Fleet

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
spectrum. This candidate will oversee the strategy as it pertains to managing business in the commercial fleet sector for both enterprise and strategic customers, in specified territories\*. The company is at a key inflection point in Solera’s long-term Fleet strategy. The role incumbent will also have ...

Lead Enterprise Architect

Hiring Organisation
Softcat
Location
Leeds, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
future technology landscape. Working closely with senior technology and business leaders, you will ensure technology investments, transformation initiatives and architectural decisions remain aligned to strategic priorities whilst enabling teams to deliver at pace. You will provide leadership to a team of Senior Solutions Architects aligned to key transformation portfolios … standards. Experience shaping technology strategy and roadmaps. Strong stakeholder management skills, including senior executive engagement. Experience leading architects or architecture communities. Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery support. We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing ...

Head of PMO

Hiring Organisation
System C
Location
Leeds, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
project delivery. You will create consistency across our portfolio, increase confidence in the information used for decision-making and evolve the PMO into a strategic capability that improves outcomes for customers and the business. What you'll be doingEstablish the FoundationsDefine common portfolio reporting, governance and control standardsImprove project … expertiseConfidence working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisionsExcellent people leadership and capability development skillsExperience with portfolio financials, capacity planning, risks and dependenciesAbility to balance strategic thinking with operational executionExperience with Power BI, advanced Excel, PSA/PPM tools, Jira, Confluence, Precursive, OpenAir or MS Project would be beneficial ...

Digital Java Developer Lead

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
including out of hours support as and when required Collaborate with large teams of Software Engineers and key technical decision makers to define the strategic vision for our products Lead the Software Engineering community to deliver the strategic vision Develop our Software Engineering capability by rewarding high performers … bring insight and expertise to how user needs have changed over time and ensure these are met across a variety of channels. Applies strategic thinking in how to provide the best service for the end user. Considers the political strategy and implications of any analyses and insights. Able ...

IT Director

Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
team and Board to ensure technology decisions support wider business priorities. The Person We are looking for an experienced technology leader who can combine strategic thinking with strong operational understanding .. You are likely to bring experience across several of the following areas: Technology strategy and architecture. Legacy ...