Platform Delivery Manager

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Platform Delivery Manager
Liverpool

The Delivery Manager – Technology Platforms performs a critical role in leading the delivery of the Princes Group technology strategy.

This role offers the opportunity to devise and deliver the evolution of technology platforms across the enterprise.

Reporting to the Head of IT - Technology, this role will have primary responsibility for the delivery and integrity of IT platform solutions across the Group. The role will build key partnerships across IT delivery, IT operations, IT security, and business teams.

The role will hold line management responsibility for a team of two Platform Engineers, an Infrastructure Engineer and an Infrastructure Architect. The post holder will also act as a further senior technical point of escalation for the direct reports, guiding them with handling priority incidents that have been escalated from the internal support teams.

The role will support and develop the Technology strategy in conjunction with the Head of IT - Technology to ensure that there is a consistent & professional approach to delivering technology projects and a strong focus on regular delivery of preventative maintenance activities.

The role forms part of a business which recognises the need for change with major growth ambitions and as part of which is highly likely to expand both in the UK and overseas. The role will need to be flexible and provide support as required to capitalise on whatever opportunities arise.

The role requires expert level understanding of general technology, End User Computing, systems, Infrastructure, data and processes across multiple system platforms.

• 6000 users globally
• Royal Liver Building Head Office
• 15 UK Manufacturing sites
• 16 European Manufacturing sites
• 2 Mauritius Manufacturing sites
• 350+ servers
• 150TB+ data storage
• Internal contacts can include members of the organisation at all levels, from junior staff to Chief Executives. Regular contacts will be Senior Managers and both Departmental and Group Directors. External contacts will include representatives from our key technology partners who provide equipment, service and support. These contacts will be for the negotiation of contracts and services, as well as resolution of day-to-day issues and the definition of future strategy

Technology Advancement – Progress investigations and proof of concept development into new technology that may be an advantage to Princes. Build business cases for investment in platform solutions. Stay abreast of technology developments and present opportunities to the wider Princes IT Teams and Business.

Product Delivery Management – define product and solution roadmaps, coordinate Business and IT resources, determine suitable product life cycles, perform competitive analysis and product selection processes, making decisions about product capabilities and priorities.

Project Delivery – Drive the team to develop and manage key business platforms, providing expert-level technical implementation knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality key system platforms on time and in-budget through to the point of transition to internal support teams.

Line Management – Line management of a team of Engineers who hold a dual project delivery/support escalation responsibility, as well as an Infrastructure Architect. The post-holder will have a…