IT Manager

Location: Peterborough
Salary: £75,000 - £80,000 Annual
Job Type: Perm
Sector: Technology
Date Posted: 29 September 2026
Reference: 55511

About The Role

  • Perm
  • Peterborough
  • £75,000 - £80,000 Annual GBP / Year

The One Group

Job Title: IT Manager

Location: Lincolnshire (On-site)
Salary: £75,000 – £80,000
Benefits:

·       Up to 20% annual bonus

·       £7,200 car allowance

·       8% pension

·       Life insurance

·       Private medical (family cover)

 

Is this the kind of move you’re looking for?

If you’re currently in a senior IT leadership role where you’re still close to the detail, still solving real problems, and still influencing direction  but you’re starting to feel like you want more ownership, more visibility, and more say in how IT is shaping the wider business, this could be a strong next step.

This role suits someone who enjoys being both strategic and operational, not removed from delivery, but close enough to it that you can genuinely influence outcomes.

You’ll be joining a business where IT is already part of the senior conversation, not an afterthought, and where you’ll have direct access to the executive team to shape priorities, investment, and a long-term digital roadmap.

At the same time, this isn’t a “boardroom-only” role you’ll still be close enough to the infrastructure, systems, and team to understand what’s really happening day-to-day and step in where needed.

If you like environments where you can see the impact of your decisions quickly, influence change across a wider business, and lead both people and technology, this will likely feel like a natural fit.

 

The Role

We’re supporting a well-established UK organisation with a multi-site footprint to appoint a senior IT Manager responsible for ownership of IT across the group.

This is a broad leadership role sitting just under executive level, accountable for both the strategic direction and operational delivery of IT, infrastructure, and systems.

You’ll lead a small internal IT team and act as the key point of accountability for IT across the business.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead IT across a multi-site UK organisation

  • Own and deliver the IT and digital strategy roadmap

  • Manage and develop a small IT team

  • Oversee infrastructure, service delivery, and operational IT

  • Act as escalation point for key technical issues where required

  • Work closely with senior leadership on budgeting and investment planning

  • Drive improvements in data, reporting, and system integration

  • Support ongoing transformation across core business systems (including ERP environments)

  • Influence and gain buy-in across operational and leadership stakeholders

  • Contribute to wider automation and digital improvement initiatives

 

What You’ll Likely Bring

  • Experience in IT leadership roles (IT Manager / Head of IT level)

  • Strong infrastructure and operational IT background

  • Comfortable balancing strategy with hands-on delivery

  • Experience in multi-site operational environments (desirable)

  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability

  • Ability to translate IT strategy into real-world delivery

  • Budget and vendor management experience

  • ERP exposure helpful, not essential

  • A leadership style that combines credibility, calm influence, and pragmatism

 

Why This Role Stands Out

  • Real ownership of IT across a full multi-site operation

  • Direct access to executive leadership and decision-making

  • A live transformation agenda — not a maintenance role

  • A genuine mix of strategy, influence, and operational involvement

  • Visible impact across systems, data, and business performance

  • Opportunity to shape how IT evolves over the next 3–5 years

 

Interested?

If you’re looking for a senior IT leadership role where you can genuinely influence direction, shape change, and stay close enough to the detail to see real impact, this is worth a conversation.

 

To apply for this job email your details to jtate@theonegroup.co.uk

About The ONE Group

The ONE Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy with offices in Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, and Hertfordshire.

We recruit across Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing, Scientific, Sales, and Marketing, with consultants who specialise in their sector rather than trying to cover everything. This focused approach allows us to provide deeper market knowledge, stronger networks, and better hiring outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Our expertise spans permanent, contract, and senior-level appointments. Most importantly, the majority of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, reflecting the long-term relationships we build and the trust we earn through consistently delivering results.

What Happens Next

1

One of our consultants will review your application within one working day.

2

If your experience looks like a fit, we'll be in touch for a quick conversation to understand what you're looking for.

3

From there, we'll talk you through the role properly, prepare you for interview, and stay alongside you through to your start date.

4

Whatever happens with this role, we'll keep your details on file, with your permission, so we can flag other opportunities that suit you.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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