IT Manager - YPO

IT Manager

Salary: £64,917.00 per year, Senior Leadership Team (SLT1a)

Contract: Permanent, full-time, Monday to Friday

Hours: 37 hours’ per week, flexible schedule

Location: Hybrid working from our Head Office, Wakefield WF2 0XE

Benefits: 28 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, plus 3 discretionary closedown days and Local Government Pension Scheme

Being the IT Manager at YPO means providing pro-active leadership and motivation to a team of dedicated industry professionals, each striving to deliver the best service and product to every YPO employee and customer.

“If you're looking for a stimulating, friendly and rewarding working environment, then YPO could be the place for you.”

You will apply previous experience managing a large multidisciplinary team within a customer centric organisation to oversee all aspects of IT service delivery, while executing effective management strategies to monitor output and performance. Your knowledge of project implementation and professional IT skills will allow you to locate, analyse and solve complex technical issues.

Demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills, you will be confident in building relationships and gaining trust from your team, as well as other Senior Leaders, Directors and Head of Departments. You will be able to take complex methodology and systems analysis and present this to both the layperson and the IT professional.

You will be the type of manager who is visible and supportive within the workplace, proactively speaking and engaging with your team and customers, with a ‘lead-by-example’ ethos. You will pride yourself on your time management, being well organised and planning for every eventuality that may arise.

You will be empowered to self-manage, to make change, run with creativity, innovate and inspire, with continuing support and mentoring from a dedicated Senior Leadership team. At YPO, money generated through the services and products provided goes back into the community. This belief in putting the customer and community first is what motivates the teams every single day.

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification here.

“Our mission is to help the public sector achieve the best possible value when buying products and services across the UK.”

YPO believe that achieving this value is an incredibly stimulating and rewarding purpose, and the increasingly diverse team is dedicated to achieving this for clients and the community.

YPO champion public value, helping education and public sector organisations get the most from their resources. What sets YPO apart is the public-ownership model, which sees every penny of profits given back to customers and local communities. As the largest formally constituted local authority purchasing consortium in the UK, YPO achieve an annual turnover greater than £1 billion.

The YPO range includes around 30,000 products and 100 frameworks, from pens and paper, computers and furniture, to food and insurance. Employees see working at YPO as a stimulating environment with a rewarding work ethic, as well as a place to build friendships and feel secure in their career.

For further details on YPO, including service frameworks and products, please visit www.ypo.co.uk.

Grow with YPO

In return for your commitment, YPO are proud to offer a salary of £64,917.00 per year, along with optional enrolment into a Local Government Pension Scheme.

You will receive 28 days’ holiday per year, plus bank holidays, as well as a discretionary 3 days’ close down. To support a health work-life balance you will also receive a range of flexible working options, including working from home and the office, as well as a flexi-time scheme which allows flexible working hours and time-accrual.

Apply

If you feel like this role could be right for you, we would love to hear from you.

To submit an application, please send a short supporting statement as well as a CV to Bradley on bradley.naylor@northyorks.gov.uk.

To have a confidential and informal discussion about this role, please call Bradley on 07815644909.

Interviews are planned to take place throughout the recruitment process, and we reserve the right to remove this vacancy before the proposed deadline in the event of the position being filled, or a high number of applications are received. We therefore recommend contacting us or submitting an application ahead of the stated deadline.