Digital & Technology Business Partner
Yeo Valley Organic
We are looking for a Digital & Technology Business Partner to act as the strategic interface between IT and the wider business, ensuring that technology investments, services, and initiatives align with Yeo Valley’s strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
* Lead the strategic engagement between IT and assigned business functions, building strong trusted partnerships across operations, supply chain, finance, HR, and commercial teams.
* Own the end‑to‑end demand and prioritisation process — from capturing new ideas through to evaluation, alignment, and approval — ensuring initiatives are strategically sound and value‑driven.
* Champion the alignment of IT investments and projects with business goals, ensuring the IT roadmap directly supports Yeo Valley’s wider strategy and operational plans.
* Provide leadership and clarity to business stakeholders on IT priorities, delivery progress, and value realisation.
* Influence and support senior stakeholders to make well‑informed investment decisions, balancing innovation, risk, and practicality.
Lead cross‑functional prioritisation discussions to ensure technology resources are focused on initiatives with the greatest benefit, impact, and readiness.
* Support the development of business cases, including definition of expected benefits, costs, and success measures.
* Work closely with IT delivery, data, and architecture teams to ensure that proposed solutions meet business needs, adhere to enterprise standards, and deliver intended outcomes.
* Identify and champion opportunities for innovation, simplification, and automation across business processes.
* Drive a culture of partnership, transparency, and shared accountability between IT and business teams.
* Ensure clear, two‑way communication between IT and business stakeholders, translating technical progress into business value and ensuring business feedback informs IT planning.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
* Previously held business‑facing IT role such as IT Business Partner or Relationship Manager.
* Strong understanding of how technology can enable business change – ideally within a manufacturing, FMCG or supply chain environment.
* Experience with IT demand management, business case development, and benefits realisation.
* Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
* Ability to balance strategic alignment with operational delivery.
Desirable Qualifications
* Experience with ERP systems (ideally IFS), data & analytics initiatives or digital transformation.
* Familiarity with IT governance and agile delivery approaches.
* Understanding of continuous improvement and lean principles.
Benefits
* Competitive holiday allowance
* Non‑contributory pension scheme
* Life cover
* Healthcare cash back plan
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
* Preferential rates with partners
* Learning and development opportunities
* Free parking, top‑of‑the‑range PPE and locker access
Employment Details
* Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
* Employment type: Full‑time
* Job function: Business Development and Sales
* Industries: Food and Beverage Services
We are not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.
Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.
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