Head Of Delivery

Yeo Valley Farms (Production) Ltd; Highbridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK dairy producer is seeking a Digital Transformation Leader to guide the delivery of technology projects to align with business strategies. You will manage cross-functional teams, oversee project prioritization, and ensure quality in delivery. Ideal candidates will have experience in leading large-scale projects and possess strong communication skills. The role offers competitive benefits including a non-contributory pension scheme and opportunities for learning and development.

Benefits

Competitive holiday allowance

Non‑contributory pension scheme

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering large-scale technology projects.
• Ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of application architecture and integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital and technology delivery from initiation to service handover.
• Oversee project sequencing and prioritization to align with business needs.
• Champion delivery quality and set standards for performance.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

What will I be doing?

To lead the successful delivery of digital and technology change across Yeo Valley — ensuring every project and programme delivers high-quality, value-driven outcomes that align with our business strategy and ways of working.

You’ll own the end-to-end delivery of new technology solutions, advance the sequencing and prioritization of the delivery portfolio, and ensure that all solutions meet business, architectural, and quality standards. As a senior leader in the IT function, you’ll provide direction, structure, and confidence to our digital transformation journey — enabling Yeo Valley to grow, simplify, and innovate through technology.

We will need you to work closely with IT Business Partners and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment between business priorities and the delivery pipeline as well as lead supplier and partner relationships to ensure cost‑effective, high‑quality delivery and ongoing performance management. Do you have a passion for supporting talent development across project management, solution architecture, and delivery disciplines—coaching and mentoring your team members?

Your responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of all digital and technology projects and programmes, from initiation to handover into service.
• Head the project delivery function, including internal and contract Project Managers, ensuring consistent standards, governance, and capability across the team.
• Own and maintain the application roadmap, ensuring it aligns with Yeo Valley’s five-year business strategy and broader IT architecture vision.
• Oversee all technology delivery sequencing, ensuring projects are prioritised and scheduled in alignment with business priorities, dependencies, and resource capacity.
• Own the overall Digital & Technology Architecture, ensuring solutions are well designed, scalable, and aligned with enterprise principles.
• Champion delivery quality, owning the definition and enforcement of delivery standards, testing, and assurance across all programmes.
• Monitor portfolio performance and value delivery, ensuring projects deliver measurable benefits and lessons learned are captured.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the delivery and architecture teams.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

• Delivering large‑scale technology and digital transformation projects from concept to completion.
• • Managing multi‑disciplinary delivery teams (internal and external).
  • Programme and project management, including portfolio planning and sequencing.
  • Understanding of application architecture, software delivery, and integration.
  • Leading cross‑functional initiatives across operations, supply chain, and corporate functions.
  • Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills at all levels.

Desirable

• Background in manufacturing, FMCG, or supply chain environments.
• Familiarity with ERP systems (ideally IFS), WMS, MES, and broader digital technologies.
• Understanding of agile and hybrid delivery methods.

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1900 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following:

• 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 our partners
• Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Additional information

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away — and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley does not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.