Why Greencore?

We are a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We supply all of the major supermarkets in the UK. We also supply convenience and travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice and other retailers. We have strong market positions in a range of categories including sandwiches, salads, sushi, chilled snacking, chilled ready meals, chilled soups and sauces, chilled quiche, ambient sauces and pickles, and frozen Yorkshire Puddings.

In FY22 we manufactured 795m sandwiches and other food to go products, 127m chilled prepared meals, and 249m bottles of cooking sauces, pickles and condiments. We carry out more than 10,600 direct to store deliveries each day. We have 21 world-class manufacturing units across 16 locations in the UK, with industry-leading technology and supply chain capabilities. We generated revenues of £1.7bn in FY22 and employ approximately 14,000 people.

We work hard to ensure that Greencore is a great place to work and our people truly are at the core. We’re committed to ensuring all our colleagues have development plans and strive to provide inspiring leadership – in fact, in the past year we’ve seen an 11% increase in the number of colleagues who would recommend Greencore as a place to work. Why not come join us?

IT Business Partner @Greencore

This is a brilliant opportunity to serve as the strategic interface within an assigned business area, for the purpose of technology strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management and overall relationship management. You will build strong working relationships with senior leaders to inspire, innovate and ultimately prioritise a backlog of activities to maximise Greencore investment in IT.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own business area stakeholder management, developing key relationships to be able to influence, support and challenge when understanding functions priorities
• Accountable for IT service outcomes and prioritise problem management activities to improve performance
• Build alignment using roadmaps to ensure project priorities are clear and these flow through the IT delivery processes effectively
• Define the scope and requirements of initiatives identified in the Roadmaps to work with IT architects on and build approach plans and Capital Proposals (scope, benefits, cost and timeline) which can be transitioned into the IT delivery team for execution
• Deploy process and procedures in support of business change associated with the IT initiatives to help ensure adoption of the change and realisation of benefits
• Represent Group IT in business function leadership forums
• Manage the cost effectiveness of IT services to the business by identifying and delivering saving opportunities while staying aligned to the overall agreed technology roadmap, ensuring savings are made in line with budget
• Support the achievement of our sustainability plan through leading with a sustainability mindset
• Support the achievement of our Inclusion and Diversity aspirations through role modelling and personally leading and hiring inclusively, embracing and encouraging diversity
• Implement and ensure compliance with our data management and governance policies, procedures and/or guidance governance approaches so that associated risks are mitigated and managed

What we’re looking for:

• Educated to Degree level typically variety of different types of project experience, breadth working cross functionally, experience of agile project management
• High level of technical understanding to interpret technical issues for the business and sustain credibility with IT
• Understands, explains and presents complex technical roadmaps, priority planning and estimations to both technical and non[1]technical audiences at all levels up to the highest in a persuasive and convincing manner
• Ability to translate business vision into executable IT / Business deliverables that can be delivered incrementally to maintain pace and manage the level of business change
• Stakeholder Management skills, anticipates and tailors’ approach to individuals, tenacious in the face of setback, and able to build support and influence through both formal and informal channels
• Demonstrates sound practical knowledge of business processes, business requirements elicitation, process redesign and change management
• Demonstrates sound practical knowledge of technical disciplines e.g. process re-design, systems development, and service / project delivery
• Ability to translate business needs into compelling IT visions to generate commitment, and then transition into IT application solutions
• Experience handling a remote and/or distributed team. Anticipates and understands the strengths and gaps of the team and takes action to ensure success and supports development & succession for the future

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Annual Target Bonus
• PSP Target Bonus
• Car Allowance
• Pension up to 8% matched
• PMI Cover - Spouse
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

 Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.