chief information officer job

Our client is a leading international oilfield services contractor. The group’s activities are centred on its two operating subsidiaries that provide drilling and related well and facilities engineering services to the global energy industry. Headquartered in Aberdeen, with a hub office in Europe, the group has a cumulative turnover of over $1.5bn and employees a total workforce of some 9,000 spread globally. Due to recent growth a need has now arisen to create a new position of Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Reporting to the board, the CIO will be accountable to refine and lead the group-wide strategy and delivery of information technology. The successful candidate will act as the board’s key information and technology advisor and will ensure the group’s IT effectively supports operations and corporate functions, enabling it to manage future change.

The Role: • Maximise the return provided by the group’s investments in technology and business systems. • Build a team culture and bring cohesion to the function. • Establish key working relationships with peers and in particular, quickly build credible relationships with the board. • Build and strengthen a customer service ethos within the team to gain credibility with the wider business and increase service levels to stakeholders. • Initiate an organisational analysis to identify the best functional model and people development needs within the function. • Initiate a drive to improve the desk-support function with particular emphasis on remote-user sites. • Develop a short to mid-term strategy to address key change and restructuring initiatives as required.

The Requirement: • Ideally has worked in the energy or engineering-based manufacturing sectors with a demonstrable career of success; B2B experience as opposed to B2C. • Senior IT leader/CIO with a career of breadth in the function. • Has led multi-country and multi-site teams • Able to communicate technical concepts and processes in a non-technical way. • Managed a regional or a global IT function in a business or business unit of least $1bn annual revenues. • Depth in at least two or more areas of IT infrastructure management (telecom, desktop maintenance, server, help desk management, etc) and/or was a programmer. • Managed large implementation projects covering both ERP (at least one of them should be SAP) and major line of business applications. • Has successfully led a large change programme, and delivered operational results (for example; organisational re-alignment, financial management and accountability, developed an application roadmap, developed an IT growth strategy, supported geographical expansions, customer service levels and IT acquisition integration). • Possesses a strong operational and financial background, as well as business process knowledge.