Freeman Clarke
Freeman Clarke the leading supplier of Fractional CTO’s, CIO’s and CISO’s (Principals) to ambitious mid-market companies. We are sector agnostic working with companies whose revenue is typically between £10m & £150m and above. We also work with fast-growth and externally backed start-ups.
The Opportunity
Freeman Clarke offer the opportunity to grow a portfolio career working with fast-moving medium sized businesses that changes daily and provides an opportunity to work across various sectors and environments.. Working fractionally provides the ability to remove the corporate shackles and offer valued and trusted independent, impartial advice and guidance to company boards and owner/managers enabling them to be successful.
The Candidate
You should be a CTO or CIO with in-depth corporate/enterprise experience across multiple sectors,. You'll perhaps already be working independently with one or more clients or have left corporate life recognising that you want to do something for yourself, but still within the IT andTechnology and business leadership space.
The Capability and Experience
Freeman Clarke Principals provide independent, trusted and impartial advice, guidance and direction at board level. You must be excited by the entrepreneurial, passionate world of fast-paced, constantly changing, mid market businesses. Specifically, you need to be capable of:
- Quickly understanding businesses and creating IT strategies relevant to fast-growth company boards and CEOs
- Create and nurture relationships with CEO’s and other board members
- Providing senior leadership to the internal IT Management team
- Creating a vision and strategy for the client to realise their short, medium and long term objectives and potential
- roject management and post project benefits realisation
- Developing and enhancing communications between IT teams, suppliers and your clients
- Aligning business functions to the technology roadmap you create
- Working across the entire IT spectrum including infrastructure, business systems and online.
You must have extensive and demonstrable experience of:
- Managed technology budgets that represent a significant proportion of the company’s overall spend profile, including cost management and business case creation.
- Solid understanding of financial principles, including budgeting, cost-value analysis, and ROI.
- End to End supplier contract negotiations and outsourcing
- Creating and implementing IT strategies that solve business problems and create new opportunities
- Align technology with business goals and demonstrate the value of technology to stakeholders.
- IT operations and projects direction and management, projects recovery and creating and maintaining stability and security
- Coaching, Mentoring, development and performance management of IT and non IT client employees
- Implementation and management of standards, processes, policies with experience of compliance and auditing
- Management of business and technology risk including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
You should be:
- Entrepreneurial – able to work with us to win your own clients, and able to help your clients grow their own businesses along with identifying further opportunities for growth or even expansion of the initial proposition
- Have a passion for technology as an enabler of 21st Century business
- A natural communicator, able to create trust and to converse as easily with the board as well as the technicians.
- Passionate about Continual Professional Development, consistently learning new skills and increasing knowledge across technology
- Innovative in your delivery of objectives, aware of and identify current and future advancements to enhance your clients
- Commercially aware, understand industry trends and changes to further improve your clients
- Sharing, consistently collaborating and knowledge sharing with your peer group
- Passionate about providing value through better use of technology within SMEs.
- Able to understand and work within the SME environment recognising and adjusting for the differences to large corporates.
- Adaptable to the constant changing landscape and requirements of growing, mid-market businesses
- Able to influence, direct, advise and mentor CEO’s and board members
- Demonstrate the ability to move beyond the initial engagement and identify areas that can further improve your clients business and retain them for the long termCurious, you should be intrigued working within a diverse client base and motivated to understand their sector and products thus increasing your own knowledge base.
- Open and honest, energetic, relevant and willing to go the extra mileCreative and proactive, able to ensure the right thing is done for the client.
Requirements
Freeman Clarke expect CIO’s and CTO’s to have the following skills & experience:
- Significant Director/Board level experience within the corporate or enterprise space
- Experience of leading and managing all sectors of IT as well as other business areas including finance, marketing and HR
- Experience of implementing new initiatives and enhancements within the tech space to increase revenue or streamlining process
- Experience in a variety of industry sectors
- Be creative, curious and excited about opportunities within sectors you have not previously worked in
- Board level working, meetings, presentations and discussions
- Excellent verbal, written, and active listening skills
- Outsourcing and supplier management
- Budget and cost management
- The ability to work independently within your clients and work well with your wider regional team
Experience in the following areas is also desired:
- Previous experience of consulting with smaller businesses, fast-growth companies and start-ups