Delivery Manager - Data Centre of Excellence

at  Whitbread

Delivery Manager – ATE (Data Centre of Excellence) (Technology), Full-Time, Permanent, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, LU5 5XE (Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days in the office)
As the Delivery Manager – ATE (Data Centre of Excellence), you will play a pivot role in maintaining the reliability and integrity of our pricing system (ATE) by managing the backlog and data delivery workstreams for our pricing system from Release/Sprint Planning, Product Enhancement through to Governance and Compliance to ensure operations and optimising overall service quality.
Whitbread are the owners of Premier Inn, and some of the UK’s most loved restaurants. With a website that handles nearly £2billion worth of transactions per year and a business that employees around 40,000 people, this role will offer you a genuine challenge to keep our customers and colleagues’ data secure.
The core purpose of the role is to manage delivery of the Product Backlog and data delivery workstreams of strategic projects/programmes for our yield management product, i.e., Automated Trading Engine (ATE) to ensure availability of product for pricing runs in a timely fashion.

Salary: £69,000pa-£75,000pa, plus a car or car allowance and up to 30% company performance-based bonus
Contract Type: Full-Time and Permanent
Location: Dunstable, Bedfordshire (LU5 5XE) and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days in the office

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Healthcare: Individual and Family BUPA healthcare
• Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand

Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/

What you’ll be doing:

• Overall responsibility for the successful initiation, release planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of Data backlog items/project workstreams
• Day to day engagement with stakeholder groups across Functions, Brands, IT SMEs and external IT Suppliers to ensure all parties are aligned on expectations, timelines and delivery status.
• Ensure compliance with IT and business governance standards.
• Finance and project reporting to keep stakeholders at all levels engaged and onboard.
• Evaluate progress of the releases on a frequent basis and make timely interventions as needed to drive down risk and manage issues/ dependencies
• Own the discovery activity to shape options for future capabilities
• Manage third-party supplier deliverables to time, cost and quality

What you’ll need:

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Project management practices and methodologies
• Ability to manage multiple backlog items, assign and manage work activities, meet deadlines and develop comms/reporting in a timely and effective manner.
• Project planning, budget planning and resource management
• Engineering processes and practices to build products with sound and measurable instrumentation
• Agile delivery methodologies such as SAFe
• Engineering background of developing business critical products and platforms

Be part of our Information Technology Team at Whitbread
Keeping up with new platforms and real-world technologies allows us to get closer to our audience than ever before. Our dynamic ATE Team are subject experts and a team who are passionate about what they do.
We encourage your application. Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcomes your application whatever your background or situation.
Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQIA+ community (those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary or those who use a different LGBTQIA+ term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. Speak to us about workplace adjustments, part-time and flexible working. Where possible we will support this