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About the Role
Blume is seeking a Technology Strategy Lead to define and drive the company's technology vision, supporting its next phase of growth. This high-impact individual contributor role involves translating market trends and emerging technologies into actionable strategies, acting as a trusted advisor to the executive team. The role also plays a key part in strategic transactions like mergers and acquisitions, ensuring technology strategy aligns with business growth and transformation objectives.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive Blume's long-term technology strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business growth objectives and priorities.
- Identify emerging technology trends, particularly AI and machine learning, translating opportunities and risks into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Partner with Ventures and Innovation teams to evaluate, trial, and scale new technologies and proof-of-concepts.
- Conduct market, competitor, and partnership analysis to inform strategic decisions, including build vs. buy, investment, and sourcing strategies.
- Produce compelling executive briefings, board papers, and presentations that influence decision-making and align stakeholders around a shared vision.
- Facilitate strategic discussions, providing data-driven insights and recommendations to support executive leadership decisions.
- Collaborate with teams across Technology, Product, Finance, Operations, and Corporate Strategy to ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable business value.
- Support technology investment planning, business cases, supplier negotiations, and resource allocation, ensuring investments align with strategic objectives and growth ambitions.
- Play a key role in transformation programmes, mergers and acquisitions, helping shape technology strategy to support business growth and integration activities.
Requirements
- Significant experience developing and shaping technology strategy within corporate strategy, management consulting, technology leadership, product strategy, or a similar environment.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders by creating clear, actionable technology strategies that drive business decisions and outcomes.
- Strong understanding of emerging technologies, particularly AI, with the ability to assess market relevance, maturity, opportunities, and risks.
- Excellent strategic thinking and analytical skills, capable of turning complex information into clear recommendations and business value.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
- Demonstrated success operating in a senior individual contributor role, influencing stakeholders and driving alignment without direct authority.
- Experience working in fast-paced, growing organisations, with the adaptability and commercial mindset this requires.
- Experience working within hybrid delivery models, including onshore, offshore, and nearshore teams.
- Exposure to mergers and acquisitions, including technology due diligence, integration planning, and transformation activities.
- Previous experience within a leading strategy consultancy or in-house strategy function.
- Technical experience earlier in your career that provides a strong foundation for technology evaluation and decision-making.
- Experience developing AI strategies or assessing AI-related investments, partnerships, and opportunities.
- Knowledge of the technology, software, digital services, or adjacent sectors.
Skills
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Strategic Thinking
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
- Presentation Skills
Location
- London Kings Cross
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days in office
- 2 days remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree-qualified in a relevant discipline
- MBA or postgraduate qualification advantageous
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + Bonus
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave + buy 5 days
- Wellbeing and mental health benefits (Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover, dental insurance)
- Matched pension contribution up to 10%
- Life assurance & income protection
- Exclusive Virgin Media O2 products, employee discounts and cashback offers
- Access to electric car scheme
- 24 hours paid volunteering leave
About the Company
- #LibertyBlume a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions.
- Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions.
- Join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow!
Equal Opportunity
- Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates.
- We’re eager to hear from you, no matter your background.