Status: Closed
The Role; IT Manager (& M365 lead)
Client: Edinburgh Instruments Ltd (part of Techcomp Europe)
Location: Livingston, West Lothian
Package: Comeptitive salary plus excellent benefits package including performance bonus, pension, private medical insurance, permanent health insurance plus flexi-working around core hours
Techcomp Europe (TEU) is part of the Hong King headquartered global Techcomp Instrument Ltd (TIL) Group, consisting of a group of scientific instrument manufacturing businesses. TEU has offices and production sites in five European countries (UK, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania) plus Sales & Support offices in the US & UAE. We employ circa 275+ people. Our TEU headquarters are at our main campus site in Livingston, a few miles West of Edinburgh. A significant number of our employees work here (nearly 200) across our four units (which we own) all located within close proximity to each other. Our Livingston campus houses our two UK companies, and support hubs for our European based companies. Functions here are: Office of the CEO TEU, R&D, Production, Installation, Service & After Sales, Sales, Finance, Marketing, IT and support services. • www.techcomp-instruments.com
For 50 years, Edinburgh Instruments have been providing customers at leading-edge research institutes, academic and industrial facilities with high-end, high-value scientific instrumentation. •We are a £20m turnover business; a manufacturer of Fluorescence and Raman molecular spectroscopy systems. Our sister business Edinburgh Sensors manufacture Gas Sensors for the environmental and horticultural markets globally. Products combine customisation, user-friendliness and high performance and are experiencing higher than ever demand. We employ circa 150+ people at our premises in Livingston. www.edinst.com
The Role: TEU is experiencing transitional change as a global business, and a welcome consequence of this is the collaboration of the support functions within the Group. EI has historically operated on a stand alone basis, but is now leading the transformation of a matrixed Group structure. Our new IT Manager will be responsible for the administration of the EI technology and management information systems, in addition to having an input into our technology strategy of the future. We are focused on fully utilising our M365 applications across the business, and a significant part of this role will be about making this happen. Our culture change is more than hardware & software applications, its about the people agenda, and so a significant part of this role will be about enabling, training, best practise awareness and supporting our employees as transition. Employee engagement will be one of your key measures of success. Key Responsibilities include:
• Driving the use of M365 applications to improve collaboration across projects and between sites including the use of SharePoint
• Driving digital strategy
• Input into our technology strategy including assisting the formulation and implementation of a technology roadmap for the business
• Cybersecurity
• End User Compute (EUC) facilities
• Application management
• Vendor management and control of IT budgets
• Project manage migrations of business management software such as ERP and CRM (in collaboration with the Group ERP lead)
• Ensure all relevant regulations (e.g., software licencing laws) are followed
• Driving best practice of IT systems throughout the organisation
• M365 & SharePoint – provide user training, advice, support to our employees – bring our employees with us on our journey of change!
• Be curious & innovative – drive best practice, tell us where we could better utilise our systems, help us be more IT efficient
The Candidate