Group Head of Business Solutions

Group Head of Business Solutions | Genuit Group Leeds | Competitive Executive Package

Genuit Group is a leading, listed manufacturer of sustainable water and climate management solutions, operating across multiple divisions and brands with a significant UK manufacturing footprint. As the Group accelerates its digital transformation agenda, Elevation Recruitment Group has been retained to appoint an exceptional leader to a newly prominent, Group-level role: Group Head of Business Solutions

Reporting directly to the CIO, this is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of Genuit’s technology and transformation strategy. You will own the consolidation, adoption, and optimisation of the Group’s core digital platforms - retiring legacy solutions, driving full utilisation across all business units, and creating a unified, high-performance digital environment.

Beyond platform consolidation, you will be the champion of Genuit’s data and AI ambitions - harnessing data to unlock commercial value and leveraging AI-driven automation to deliver measurable business benefit. This is a role for a leader who is as comfortable in the boardroom as they are in the detail: a credible, energising presence who can influence at Group and Divisional level and inspire teams to embrace change.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leading the team responsible for managing and evolving business IT solutions across the Genuit Group

Driving the transition of ERP and core business applications from programme delivery into BAU, ensuring full adoption

Building and managing a robust helpdesk and solution evaluation framework, including third-party software governance

Partnering with Group functions and Divisional leadership to co-design and deliver transformational solutions

Championing the data strategy through process and solution design, enabling sharper, faster business decisions

Partnering with the Group’s lean practice to integrate technology and automation into end-to-end process improvement

Supporting and aligning with the IT PMO and embedded IT Business Partners across the business

Contributing as a senior member of the Group IT leadership team to the broader digital transformation of the business

Ensuring security and regulatory compliance across all business solutions

Providing inspiring, developmental leadership to the Business Solutions team

You will be a proven senior IT leader with a track record of driving real change in complex, multi-site or group-structured organisations. Specifically, you will bring:

SAP S/4HANA and Workday HCM leadership experience - essential

Significant experience in ERP and MES in a manufacturing environment

Demonstrable expertise in consolidating business solutions onto centralised platforms

Strong technical knowledge across relevant toolsets - ERP, Power BI, Oracle, SQL, CRM

Experience of business process improvement frameworks such as Lean or Six Sigma

Substantial programme and transformation leadership capability

Proven ability to lead and influence in a matrix / Group organisation structure

A passionate change leader with both technical and behavioural change management experience

Exceptional stakeholder management skills at Executive and Board level

Why This Role?

Genuit Group is at a genuinely exciting inflection point in its digital journey. This role offers the platform, the mandate, and the executive support to make a lasting impact - not just on IT, but on how the business operates and competes. If you are the kind of leader who thrives on complexity, drives clarity, and brings people with you through transformation, this is a rare opportunity.

This is a retained assignment managed exclusively by Elevation Recruitment Group.

For a confidential conversation, please contact Emma Noble, Senior Business Director – Technology & Transformation at Elevation Recruitment Group.