Business Assurance Manager

GB Recruitment (England, Scotland, Wales); Daventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car allowance

26 days annual leave

Pension scheme with employer contrib.

GP consultations

Job summary

DHL in Daventry is seeking a Business Assurance Manager to lead assurance activities across warehouse management systems, automation and operational change programmes. You will own UAT, integration testing and OAT, ensuring evidence-based readiness and sign-off before live deployment.

You will build governance frameworks, drive end-to-end testing across WMS/WCS and automation, and guide a team of testers while collaborating with technology, operations and vendors.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in logistics, warehousing, supply chain operations, systems implementation or business assurance.
• Proven leadership of complex UAT programmes for WMS implementations, upgrades or releases.
• Demonstrable experience testing customer-owned WMS platforms, including customer‑led UAT, defect management, business acceptance and sign‑off.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the UAT and Operational Acceptance Testing strategy, standards, governance and delivery framework.
• Lead end-to-end testing for WMS implementations, releases, upgrades and operational change, including customer-owned platforms.
• Ensure complete traceability between requirements, test scenarios, evidence, defects, acceptance criteria and sign-off.
• Lead acceptance testing for warehouse automation and material handling solutions, coordinating WMS, WCS, automation and operational integration.
• Plan test environments, data, resources and activity against programme milestones, including peak and exception scenarios.
• Govern defect triage, prioritisation, ownership, escalation and closure, maintaining controlled and auditable evidence.
• Establish governance forums, decision rights, responsibilities, escalation and sign‑off across all parties.
• Translate technical issues into clear operational, customer and commercial impacts for senior stakeholders.
• Provide independent readiness and go‑live recommendations, constructively challenging gaps in evidence, ownership or delivery.
• Lead, coach and develop UAT Test Leads and Test Analysts colleagues across direct and matrix teams.
• Standardise testing tools, templates and reusable assets, using lessons learned and performance data to improve quality and cycle efficiency.
• Maintain delivery plans, dependencies, RAID, decision records and evidence repositories within agreed resource and cost parameters.

Skills

Leadership

UAT testing

WMS

Automation testing

Stakeholder management

Governance

Job description

Grade: RCS J Contract Type: 12 Month Secondment/FTC Location: Daventry - CV23 8BQ - Hybrid with travel to sites required Are you an experienced business assurance and testing leader who can bring structure, evidence and confidence to complex operational change? We are looking for a Business Assurance Manager to lead assurance activities across warehouse management systems, automation, and operational change programmes. In this high-impact role, you will be accountable for User Acceptance Testing (UAT), integration testing, and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT), ensuring solutions are fully evidenced, risk assessed, and approved before deployment into live operations. You will lead a team of testing professionals and act as the principal assurance interface across DHL operations, technology and business teams, programme delivery partners, and third-party vendors. You will provide independent, evidence-based recommendations on operational readiness and go-live acceptance, establish clear governance and decision‑making frameworks, and ensure risks, defects, and acceptance decisions remain controlled, transparent, and effectively managed throughout the delivery lifecycle. A TYPICAL DAY MAY INVOLVE

• Define and maintain the UAT and Operational Acceptance Testing strategy, standards, governance and delivery framework.
• Lead end-to-end testing for WMS implementations, releases, upgrades and operational change, including customer-owned platforms.
• Ensure complete traceability between requirements, test scenarios, evidence, defects, acceptance criteria and sign-off.
• Lead acceptance testing for warehouse automation and material handling solutions, coordinating WMS, WCS, automation and operational integration.
• Plan test environments, data, resources and activity against programme milestones, including peak and exception scenarios.
• Govern defect triage, prioritisation, ownership, escalation and closure, maintaining controlled and auditable evidence.
• Establish governance forums, decision rights, responsibilities, escalation routes and sign‑off authority across all parties.
• Translate technical issues into clear operational, customer and commercial impacts for senior stakeholders.
• Provide independent readiness and go‑live recommendations, constructively challenging gaps in evidence, ownership or delivery.
• Lead, coach and develop UAT Test Leads and Test Analysts colleagues across direct and matrix teams.
• Standardise testing tools, templates and reusable assets, using lessons learned and performance data to improve quality and cycle efficiency.
• Maintain delivery plans, dependencies, RAID, decision records and evidence repositories within agreed resource and cost parameters.

THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO

• Significant leadership experience in logistics, warehousing, supply chain operations, systems implementation or business assurance.
• Proven leadership of complex UAT programmes for WMS implementations, upgrades or releases.
• Demonstrable experience testing customer-owned WMS platforms, including customer‑led UAT, defect management, business acceptance and sign‑off.
• Experience of automation commissioning and acceptance testing, including WMS, WCS and automation integration.
• Strong experience operating in complex, customer‑facing programme environments involving multiple functions and external vendors.
• A track record of establishing effective governance, decision rights, accountability, escalation and sign‑off arrangements.
• The confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders, resolve ownership gaps and drive timely decisions.
• Experience of providing independent, evidence-based readiness recommendations to senior governance forums.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, resource planning and managing concurrent workstreams.
• UK and Ireland operational experience; exposure to multi‑site or regional implementations would be advantageous.

WHY JOIN US?

• Company car allowance
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice

WHO WE ARE

We're the global leaders in supply chain management with 188,000 people in over 50 countries. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more. At DHL, we're all about creating a workplace where everyone's skills and experiences matter, and where you can be your true self every day. As proud supporters of the Armed Forces Covenant, we value the skills and experience of ex‑service personnel and are dedicated to helping our veterans find jobs.