Information Technology Business Partner

Elevation Recruitment Group; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevation Recruitment Group are partnering with a major UK manufacturing group to establish a high-profile Business Partnering function. This pivotal role reports to the CIO, sits on IT and divisional leadership teams, and focuses on turning technology into measurable business value across the division.

The successful candidate will bring a strong manufacturing background and a process-first, BA-style approach, shaping opportunities, building business cases and guiding initiatives through

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential.
• Understanding of how technology supports manufacturing operations.
• Background in IT, business analysis, solution or operations with a BA-style approach.
• Experience in large, complex federated or matrix organisations.
• Strong governance, business case development and change management.
• Excellent communicator capable of influencing at all levels.
• Energetic, self-starting and pragmatic.

Responsibilities

• Act as the strategic link between Group IT and the Division.
• Identify opportunities where technology adds value and turn into actionable statements.
• Collaborate with technical and architecture colleagues to shape solutions.
• Build business cases and guide initiatives through governance and delivery.
• Contribute to divisional technology strategy with the CIO.
• Champion SAP and Workday across the division.
• Partner with Group Business Services to uncover efficiency opportunities.
• Be visible on site in Doncaster and travel as needed.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

IT / Business analysis background

Solution mindset

Tools

SAP

Workday

Job description

Elevation Recruitment Group are working with one of the UK's leading manufacturing groups. The business is growing, acquisitive and investing heavily in digital transformation. It is now setting up a Business Partnering function, and you'll be there from the start, helping to shape how technology drives value across its largest Division.

The role

You'll be the strategic link between Group IT and the Division. You'll report to the CIO, with a strong dotted line to the Divisional MD, and sit on both the IT Leadership Team and the divisional Senior Leadership Team.

This isn't a support role or a project management role. It's for someone with a solution mindset and real commercial and operational insight, who can spot where technology can solve a business problem and turn it into real results. You will:

• Get to know the division's operations, strategy and priorities in depth, from the boardroom to the shop floor
• Identify opportunities where technology can improve efficiency, process and performance, and shape them into clear problem statements
• Work closely with technical and architecture colleagues to shape solutions before they go to design authority
• Build business cases and guide initiatives through governance, approval and delivery, so that value is realised
• Help shape the divisional technology strategy alongside the CIO
• Champion Group standards and platforms such as SAP and Workday across the division
• Partner with the Group Business Services function to uncover efficiency opportunities

About you

• You have a strong background in a manufacturing environment. This is essential.
• You understand how technology supports manufacturing operations. You don't need to be a hands-on techie.
• You come from an IT, business analysis, solution or operations background. A process-first, BA-style approach works especially well here.
• You have experience in a sizeable, complex business, ideally a federated or matrix organisation.
• You're confident with business cases, change requests and formal governance.
• You're an excellent communicator who can influence without authority and is equally comfortable with MDs and shop-floor teams.
• You're energetic, self-starting and solutions-focused, the kind of person who rolls their sleeves up and gets on with it.
• You're happy to be visible on site in Doncaster and to travel to other group locations as needed.

Why join?

• A newly created, senior and highly visible role with strong backing from the top
• A seat at the table on both the IT and divisional leadership teams
• Real scope to develop as the Business Partnering function grows
• An open, collaborative culture that trusts its people to deliver
• Exposure to major transformation programmes across a leading UK manufacturing group