Radius, the global fleet and connectivity leader headquartered in Crewe, boasts a team of 2,800 employees across 18 countries providing market leading products across six core business units: Radius Fuel Solutions, Radius Telematics, Radius Insurance, Radius Vehicle Solutions, Radius Connect and Radius Charge.Roles and Responsibilities:• Developing and owning an IT strategy based on current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems as related to the needs of the business.• Managing the annual IT budget, regularly reviewing and reporting on actual vs budgeted spend throughout the financial year. Identifying and implementing cost optimisation opportunities.• Leading and managing a highly skilled team of IT professionals, driving high standards and continuous professional development. • Working with business unit executives and management teams to define technology-based solutions for improving efficiency and effectiveness.• Analysing and predicting trends and developing technology roadmaps designed to maintain high performance, stability, resilience, security and cost effectiveness.• Proactively researching and recommending courses of action to prevent problems and to maintain high service levels.• Establishing metrics, key performance indicators and service level agreements that accurately instrument the performance of the wider IT department.• Directing the preparation, dissemination and enforcement of information technology standards, resulting in efficient and cost-effective infrastructure and data services.• Ensuring policies and processes are developed and implemented according to applicable regulations and standards such as PCI compliance, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus.• Managing multiple vendor relationships with strategic technology partners.

• Overall responsibility to serve as the strategic interface with assigned business units for the purpose of solution discovery, service management, risk management and relationship management.• Working with senior level management, business units and corporate staff executives to develop a technology strategy that is integrated with IT and across all business units.• Serving as the business relationship link between business units and IT at various organisational levels.• Communicating decisions, priorities and relevant project information to appropriate levels of staff regarding business unit requests and projects and initiatives.• Proactively sharing knowledge of technology risks and opportunities to build competitive advantage and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business units.• Partnering with business leadership and other key stakeholders to define opportunities and identify and prioritise projects based on predefined criteria.• Serving as a “trusted advisor” and being the primary IT point of contact to business line executives and managers, representing IT in promoting IT services and capabilities.• Serving a lead role in enabling the business to achieve their objectives through the effective use of technology.• Building and maintaining strong relationships with business partners and acting as the liaison between IT teams and the business partner.• Communicating business needs with appropriate IT groups to gain alignment between business needs and technical capabilities.• Maintaining up-to-date awareness of the current and future directions of the industry and associated technologies, and, where appropriate, making recommendations for implementation of new/upgraded systems and technologies.• Monitoring and managing financials for areas of responsibility.

• Creating and maintaining all project management documentation throughout the project lifecycle including business cases, project schedules, budgets, project execution plans, risk assessments and lessons learned.• Managing virtual project teams across multiple regions and time zones establishing clear vision and direction and creating a high performing environment.• Ensuring project success by identifying strengths of team members, encouraging knowledge transfer and improving team morale through global collaboration.• Mentoring peers by providing advice and guidance both on an informal day to day basis and through a formal Quality Assurance process.• Assessing and prioritising projects in the global project portfolio based on alignment with the global IT strategy and the overall corporate strategy.• Responsible for tracking and maintaining project budgets, often for large complex global projects with budgets in excess of £1 million.• Regular forecasting and reporting to project sponsors and steering committees using methods such as Earned Value Management.• Stakeholder management through engaging stakeholders across all levels of the business and developing appropriate plans and strategies leading to stakeholder satisfaction.

IT Project Manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East responsible for managing in-region projects with regional based project teams of 5 – 10. Completing budgets, risk assessments and project execution plans and gaining formal approval from the project sponsor to proceed. Accountable for change enablement throughout the project lifecycle and carrying out engagement management through liaising with both IT and business stakeholders.

Third tier systems analyst for server related issues including file and print, network attached storage, server migrations, WSUS, Symantec Anti-virus, data replication and backup. Global Server Standards Lead in charge of developing global server images and implementing server standards. VMware Technical Lead for Europe Africa and Middle East regions.

Second line desktop and network support providing hands-on and remote support to offices in the UK and across the Europe Africa and Middle East region. Responsible for the configuration and support of Blackberry mobile devices across the region, PC/Laptop builds and application installation and configuration in a Windows 2000/2003 Server environment with Windows XP clients.

Providing 1st line desktop and network support, resolving queries logged through the customer support desk or escalating to tier two teams. Use of the Remedy system to log all incidents and requests logged with the customer support desk.

Providing IT Support to employees both office and field based, working in a helpdesk environment resolving queries as a first point of contact or escalating the call to other members of the team. Creating and maintaining user accounts through the use of Active Directory and Exchange 2000.