Technology Business Partner

At Weetabix, we believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, stronger decisions, and a more inclusive workplace for everyone. We're committed to building an organisation where people from all walks of life feel they belong, where different voices, experiences, and backgrounds are valued and respected.

Closing date: 28th July

Interview process: TEAMS followed by Face to Face at our site in Burton Latimer.

Working pattern: You'll spend three days a week in the office, creating great opportunities to collaborate, strengthen team connections and build high-impact working relationships face to face. We're happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Just let us know how we can support you.

Weetabix is on an exciting growth journey, and many of the opportunities we are recruiting for are newly created roles. These positions reflect our investment in people, capabilities and innovation as we continue to build for the future.

The Recipe (About the Role)

As a Technology Business Partner, you will act as the key link between business functions and technology, translating strategic goals and operational priorities into outcome-focused, technology roadmaps. You will evaluate options, build robust business cases, and oversee delivery and ongoing guidance through internal teams and external partners, prioritising standard solutions before considering customisation. You will own data-led resolutions, process standardisation, and the adoption of modern, scalable platforms, helping the organisation grow its brands through the effective use of advanced technologies.

Over the next three to five years, you will play a critical role in accelerating digital enablement across the organisation, improving process maturity, driving automation and evaluation, reducing technical debt, and embedding strong change and adoption practices that scale with continued growth.

• Act as the key technology partner for business areas, comprehending goals, obstacles and priorities to shape high-value solutions.
• Gather and prioritise requirements, constructively testing to align with best practice, feasibility and business value.
• Translate needs into clear solution options, including process improvement, configuration, integration or custom development, with defined costs, risks and timelines.
• Develop business cases and recommendations with clear benefits, success measures and return on value.
• Maintain a technology roadmap and outcome-focused backlog, aligned to business priorities and delivery capacity.
• Manage priorities and stakeholder expectations, overseeing delivery through to high-quality user acceptance testing and formal sign-off.
• Oversee application lifecycle management, including upgrades, optimisation and retirement, ensuring systems remain effective.
• Coordinate application help, driving timely incident resolution and owning root cause evaluation for recurring or high-impact issues.
• Maintain clear documentation and communicate system changes, releases and updates to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage third-party suppliers, driving service quality, performance and value.
• Drive adoption of systems and best practice through training, guidance and structured change approaches.
• Enable user-led automation and development within governed standards, ensuring security, consistency and data quality.
• Promote standardisation and simplification through greater use of core platform capabilities and reduced customisation.
• Improve data quality and visibility to advocate performance tracking and forecasting.
• Identify opportunities for automation and use of artificial intelligence to improve productivity and service delivery.
• Advocate scalable, integrated solutions through clear integration approaches and future-ready design.
• Build digital capability across the business, developing strong user communities and consistent ways of working.

The Ingredients (What we need from you)

• Proven experience in technology business partnering or product and solution ownership within fast-paced, matrixed environments such as Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG).
• Technical subject matter expertise aligned to relevant business functions and systems, with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) essential.
• Good knowledge of core business processes, including Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report and Plan to Produce, with ability to map and improve processes.
• Hands-on experience gathering requirements and writing user stories, assessing solution options, coordinating user acceptance testing and managing release and change governance.
• Experience managing suppliers and partners, including service level standards, and resolving incidents and problems within an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework.
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to prioritise work, communicate clearly and deliver high-quality documentation at pace.

Your Bowl of Perks (Benefits)

• Competitive salary & Annual Flexible benefits.
• Annual bonus.
• Double-matched pension scheme (up to 12% from us).
• 25 days annual leave increasing with service.
• Annual Salary review.
• Healthcare plan.
• Discounted Weetabix products.

To support our employees, we also offer:

• Continued investment in your personal development.
• We believe in balance, whether it's for family, rest or simply time for you. As well as your holiday entitlement, you can purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave.
• Access to 24/7 counselling service (via Grocery Aid partnership).
• The freedom of Flexible Work Opportunities.
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave.
• Additional Time Off for Fertility Treatment and Neonatal Care.
• Working Parents Support Group.
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy.

Please note: We benchmark roles based on your skills and experience, so we do not advertise fixed salary ranges. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position; therefore, we are seeking candidates who do not require sponsorship. We utilise our Preferred Agency Supplier Partners as and when we require additional support.