Head of Enterprise Solutions
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- £58.3K–£63K
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- United Kingdom
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- Hybrid
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Contract: 35 hours per week (hybrid, 2 days a week in the office)
Salary: £58,300 - £63,000 per annum
Location: Burford OX18 4PF
Closing date: Thursday 3rd December 2026
Interview date: 1st interview 10th December, 2nd interview 17th December.
We’re recruiting a Head of Enterprise Solutions! In this role you’ll take the strategic reins of our digital platforms, enterprise applications, and emerging tech. It’s an opportunity to define and shape a resilient, forward-thinking technology landscape, based around Microsoft solutions, that directly empowers our colleagues across the UK to make an even bigger impact for the animals and people who need us most.
More about the role
Joining our Information Services leadership team and reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, you will provide the strategic vision, governance, and delivery roadmap for our entire enterprise application portfolio. You will lead and inspire a high-performing team covering business partnering, solution delivery, platform services, and automation. From translating complex operational needs into joined-up system architectures to championing application rationalisation, you’ll ensure our core technology is scalable, cost-effective, secure, and genuinely easy for our people to use.
Innovation is right at the top of the agenda. You’ll lead the way in evaluating and safely embedding automation, artificial intelligence, and digital workplace tools to remove everyday friction and streamline operations. Alongside driving internal transformation, you will oversee strategic supplier partnerships, commercial negotiations, and service resilience, ensuring we extract genuine value from every technology investment while keeping our data safe and compliant. Whether you are setting long-term platform strategies or deputising for the CIO, your work will be central to how Blue Cross innovates and grows.
About you
You are an experienced, commercially savvy technology leader who thrives in complex environments and knows how to turn big-picture strategy into real-world, practical delivery. Rather than sitting solely in the technical detail, you excel at building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across diverse business areas, acting as a credible partner who demystifies technology and connects digital roadmaps with overarching strategic goals. You bring an open, collaborative approach to problem-solving and aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo or make brave, sensible decisions that lead teams positively through change.
People leadership is where you shine. You take genuine pride in mentoring, motivating, and developing multi-disciplinary teams, fostering a continuous-improvement mindset and a supportive, inclusive culture. Balancing competing operational demands with long-term strategic projects comes naturally to you, underpinned by strong commercial acumen and sound governance. Above all, you are drawn to purpose-driven work and bring empathy, integrity, and energy to an organisation where your technical leadership directly supports pets and people every single day.
This is a hybrid role and you must be able to work from our Burford office in Oxfordshire twice a week.
Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- Significant experience leading technology, digital or enterprise solutions functions within a complex
- organisation.
- Proven experience developing and delivering technology strategies and roadmaps aligned to
- organisational objectives.
- Significant leadership and people management experience, including developing high-performing
- teams.
- Experience leading technology-enabled change and transformation initiatives.
- Significant experience of supplier, contract and commercial management.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, cloud technologies, technology governance and
- information security.
- Experience building effective relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing strategic
- decision-making.
- Ability to demonstrate, understand and apply Blue Cross values and behaviours.
Desirable Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- Relevant professional qualification in technology, architecture, programme management, service
- management, business analysis or a related discipline.
- Experience managing substantial technology budgets and investment decisions.
- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 and related technologies.
- Experience leading large-scale technology or organisational transformation programmes.
- Experience within the charity, not-for-profit or public sector.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management and integration
- technologies.
- Understanding of data governance, analytics and information management principles.
- Experience implementing automation, artificial intelligence or digital workplace productivity
- solutions.
Using AI in your application
We’re happy for you to use AI tools to help you prepare your application, for example to organise your thoughts, improve clarity or check spelling and grammar. However, your application must be an honest reflection of your own skills, experience and achievements, and AI should not be used to write your application for you or create examples that aren’t your own.
We’re happy for you to use AI tools to help you prepare your application, for example to organise your thoughts, improve clarity or check spelling and grammar. However, your application must be an honest reflection of your own skills, experience and achievements, and AI should not be used to write your application for you or create examples that aren’t your own.
Please read our guidance on using AI when applying to Blue Cross before submitting your application.
How to apply
The process will include:
- First stage interview – 10th December 2026 - Competency based interview
- Second stage – 17th December 2026 – Presentation and interview questions
Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Blue Cross benefits
Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.
In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.
Our generous benefits package includes:
- Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
- Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
- Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
- Health cash plan
- Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
- Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
- Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
- Life assurance
- 20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Recognition scheme
- Annual volunteer days
- Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers
To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.
