Product Lead
4 weeks ago
Location: Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK – Hybrid (open to flexibility)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive plus £8,400 car allowance, pension, family healthcare and bonus up to 20%.
Hours/Shift pattern: Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours Why join us?
We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Product Lead, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too. What we do
We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. About this role
As our Product Lead, you'll be the strategic mastermind behind our IT applications. You'll ensure the seamless delivery of essential non-Vision projects, maintain our existing product ecosystem, and keep our business running smoothly. Your efforts will guarantee that our products remain high-performing and readily available to our customers. When not focused on our established IT products, you and your team will channel your expertise into Project Vision. You'll be instrumental in defining, building, and testing the target state architecture centered around the SAP S4/HANA ERP platform.
At Bakkavor, we're embarking on an ambitious journey with Project 'Vision'. Our aim? To create a world-class SAP S4/HANA solution that revolutionises the customer and colleague experience, sparks technological innovation, and integrates solutions to future-proof our operations. This transformative project necessitates a fresh approach, prompting a dynamic overhaul of our Business Systems organisation.
As part of the Group IT Business Systems team, you'll foster an environment that challenges conventions and continuously seeks innovative opportunities. You'll lead by example, mentoring and managing a team of IT professionals to deliver high-quality, strategic solutions through the full project management lifecycle. Key role responsibilities
Design and implement effective IT application and integration solutions meeting requirements and standards. Act as a trusted advisor, building and maintaining relationships with IT leaders and business executives. Develop a clear understanding of business needs and ensure cost-effective IT service delivery. Respond with agility to changing business priorities. Collaborate with external vendors and partners, managing relationships and ensuring high-quality service delivery. Evaluate proposals and oversee vendor performance. Work with third-party solutions providers and developers for technical configuration/customisation. Ensure solutions meet customer needs and provide a great user experience. Work with support organization to troubleshoot incidents and escalations, providing resolution to break-fix issues. Resolve complex issues and manage user relationships and delivery. Proactively reduce support work volume by identifying and improving common/recurring issues. Engage with business units, IT teams, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and gather feedback. Manage expectations throughout the delivery cycle and communicate progress effectively. Work with IT senior leadership on service portfolio and governance to prioritise resources. Leverage influencing and negotiation skills to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions for business goals. About youWe’re seeking an experienced leader with significant FMCG/CPG business experience. Your IT knowledge and skills will be exceptional, with a proven track record of successfully delivering IT projects. You will possess excellent stakeholder engagement skills. You will be someone who listens, and offers opinion and guidance in a coherent, constructive, and persuasive manner. Business stakeholders and colleagues will value your opinion. You’ll be decisive and pragmatic; someone who is able to solve complex problems at pace, and in a collaborative way.
You will have detailed knowledge and experience that spans a wide range of business operations and processes including finance, procurement, and supply chain management. We’d like to see
Extensive experience in major IT-enabled change delivery Strong knowledge and skills in core business processes and operations Experience in the FMCG/CPG industry Extensive ERP experience, with breadth and depth across ERP systems Proficiency with SAP S4/HANA Understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban project management methodologies Proven team leadership and project delivery team capabilities Inspirational leadership with a "Thinking Big" mindset Skilled in influencing and ‘taking people with you’ Ability to drive high-quality delivery at a fast pace Experience working with 3rd parties and system integrators Good understanding of the design, build, test, and deploy stages of major IT project delivery Excellent relationship management, strong influencing, and communication skills What you’ll receiveAs an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards, and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You’ll enjoy:
Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover) Cash allowance (car) Free CarparkingPlus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team
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