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Eastbourne, England, GB

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, GB

• Plumbase is a >£250m turnover National Plumbers Merchant with 160+ locations across the UK. On 1st October 2019, UK Plumbing Supplies Ltd (UKPS) acquired the business from Grafton Plc, who operated a fully centralised.
• Create and run a decentralised Plumbase IT organisation providing a high-quality service to the business.
• Review, update and re-implement IT policies and operating processes.
• Own and manage all IT suppliers and contracts.
• Develop and maintain IT Operating Budget.
• Develop and evolve Business focussed IT Strategy and roadmap.Key Achievements include:

Wolverhampton, GB

• Responsible for all technology in use in the UK business and for the development of the strategic technology roadmap. Focus was on ERP Strategy, Online and e-Commerce and process automation technologies as part of a.
• Single point of technical authority for all systems used in the UK.
• Developing technical solutions aligned to the business strategy.
• Software selection.
• Maintaining an in-depth knowledge of the business current and target operating model and processes, and a clear understanding of immediate and future technology requirements.
• Working closely with the Group IT to determine and implement the technological strategies, and to set and enforce the technical standards to be employed across the Group and in the UK.

Wolverhampton, GB

• Reporting to the Managing Director, with overall responsibility for leading the UK wide IT function, including:
• Delivery of IT services, development, and support to Brammer UK, Buck & Hickman, Brammer Ireland and Brammer Iceland / Norway.
• Building and Line Management of a 35 strong department covering Service Desk & Infrastructure support, Business Systems, e-Commerce & Technical Integrations, and Master Data Management Teams
• Leading the design and implementation of strategic systems projects.
• Ensuring the alignment of IT services to business strategy through key UK stakeholder management
• Ownership of relationship with all IT suppliers (Systems and Infrastructure

Wolverhampton, GB

Reporting into the Head of Group Systems and Infrastructure, and line managing a small team of Developers and Business Support Analysts, with responsibility for the delivery of key IT projects and the support, maintenance, and development of key bespoke systems.

Wolverhampton, GB

Reporting into the Business Systems manager, with responsibility for the development and maintenance of bespoke windows/web based software primarily using Microsoft technology including VB/C#.NET, MS SQL; inheriting a considerable estate of bespoke solutions developed in a mixture of VB, ASP, SQL and MS Access. Heavily involved in early implementations of.

Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

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