Commercial IT Lead

Location: Mountsorrel

Commercial Systems Lead

Project Falcon | Tarmac📍 Hybrid Working | Quorn, Mountsorrel (2 days per week on-site)

Shape the Future of Commercial Systems at Tarmac

Are you an experienced systems delivery leader who thrives on translating business needs into powerful technology solutions?

We're looking for a Commercial Systems Lead to play a pivotal role in Project Falcon, one of Tarmac's most significant transformation programmes. In this role, you'll lead the delivery of Commercial domain solutions, ensuring business requirements are transformed into scalable, high-quality systems that support the future of our organisation.

Working closely with Commercial, Technical, Integration and Delivery teams, you'll be the crucial link between business ambition and technical execution, helping drive successful programme outcomes while maintaining robust governance, quality and solution integrity.

What You'll Be Doing

As Commercial Systems Lead, you'll take ownership of stream-level solution delivery for the Commercial workstream, ensuring solutions are designed, configured, integrated and delivered in line with approved programme standards.

Key responsibilities include:

✅ Converting approved Commercial requirements into functional specifications, technical designs and delivery plans.

✅ Leading solution design activities and maintaining the Commercial systems baseline.

✅ Coordinating configuration, development and integration work across internal teams and strategic partners.

✅ Assessing change impacts, managing dependencies and ensuring end-to-end traceability from requirement through to deployment.

✅ Defining and managing interfaces across enterprise platforms including SAP ECC, Salesforce and other business-critical systems.

✅ Facilitating solution workshops, balancing business needs with platform capabilities and programme standards.

✅ Supporting testing activities across system, integration, performance and security testing phases.

✅ Driving defect triage and resolution, ensuring issues are understood, owned and successfully remediated.

✅ Producing and maintaining high-quality technical documentation, support artefacts and solution records.

✅ Supporting programme readiness, cutover activities and successful go-live execution.

✅ Enabling smooth service transition and knowledge transfer into BAU support teams.

✅ Managing risks, issues, dependencies and progress reporting through programme governance.

What We're Looking For

You'll be a technically credible individual with strong stakeholder management skills and a proven track record of delivering complex enterprise systems change.

You'll bring:

Experience leading systems delivery within Commercial, Customer, Sales, Pricing, Order Management or related domains.
The ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions and delivery roadmaps.
Considerable knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, data flows and system interfaces.
Experience coordinating suppliers, system integrators, developers, analysts and technical specialists.
A structured approach to governance, traceability, risk management and quality assurance.
Excellent communication skills with the confidence to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience supporting testing, deployment, service transition and operational readiness activities.
The ability to balance business priorities with technical architecture and programme standards.

Desirable Experience

Experience with one or more of the following would be highly beneficial:

SAP
Salesforce
Order Management platforms
Logistics or transportation systems
Large-scale transformation programmes
Manufacturing, distribution, construction materials or other operationally intensive industriesQualifications

Degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Relevant certifications such as ITIL, Architecture, Integration, Programme Delivery or platform-specific certifications are advantageous.

Why Join Tarmac?

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of a major transformation programme, helping shape the technology landscape that will support…