Technology Planning & Delivery Manager

Alliance Pharma PLC; Chippenham; Hybrid; GBP 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

10 days additional holiday

Zusammenfassung

Alliance Pharma PLC, Chippenham, Wiltshire, is seeking a Technology Planning & Delivery Manager to lead the consolidated technology roadmap, demand management and governance across multiple domains within the Group IT function.

You will partner with senior stakeholders, translate strategy into delivery plans, drive complex projects from concept to implementation and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading technology delivery, programmes, portfolios or business systems teams.
• Strong experience with ERP, digital, data, reporting or automation platforms.
• Expertise in demand management, prioritisation, roadmap planning and resource allocation.
• Strong project and portfolio governance skills, including risk, dependency and stakeholder management.
• Experience operating within Agile, PRINCE2, ITIL or similar delivery frameworks.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience leading teams through change and driving organisational adoption.
• The ability to translate business challenges into practical technology solutions.
• A track record of delivering technology initiatives on time, within budget and with measurable business impact.

Aufgaben

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary technology delivery function, ensuring resources are aligned to business priorities.
• Own and manage the technology demand process, balancing business requirements with delivery capacity.
• Maintain oversight of the technology portfolio, identifying risks, dependencies, competing priorities and capacity constraints before they impact delivery.
• Drive complex technology projects and transformation initiatives from concept through to successful implementation.
• Establish and lead effective project and portfolio governance across the Group IT function.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable technology roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Collaborate with engineering and Centre of Excellence teams to maintain a clear, consolidated technology roadmap.
• Ensure requirements, testing, deployment and change management activities are effectively coordinated.
• Oversee second-line support for key business technology platforms, driving continuous improvement and service excellence.
• Embed consistent ways of working, governance standards and knowledge management practices across technology teams.
• Act as a trusted technology partner, providing challenge, guidance and leadership to ensure successful outcomes.

Kenntnisse

Technology delivery leadership

ERP & data platforms

Demand management

Portfolio governance

Delivery frameworks

Stakeholder management

Change management

Tools

ERP systems

Jobbeschreibung

Chippenham, Wiltshire (Hybrid 2 days a week onsite)
Contract: Permanent
Reporting to: Associate Director of Business Technology & Data

Are you an experienced technology leader who thrives on bringing order to complexity, balancing strategic planning with hands-on delivery, and turning business priorities into successful technology outcomes?

We're looking for a Technology Planning & Delivery Manager to join our Group IT function and play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our technology portfolio across the business.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead technology planning, governance, project delivery and operational support, while partnering with senior stakeholders to ensure technology investments drive real business value.

The opportunity

As our Technology Planning & Delivery Manager, you will own the consolidated technology roadmap, ensuring demand is effectively prioritised, resources are aligned, and projects are delivered successfully across multiple technology domains.

Working closely with business leaders, Centres of Excellence and engineering teams, you'll provide the leadership, structure and governance needed to transform ideas into outcomes.

This role combines strategic thinking, portfolio management, stakeholder engagement and operational leadership, making it ideal for someone who enjoys working across both business and technology landscapes.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary technology delivery function, ensuring resources are aligned to business priorities.
• Own and manage the technology demand process, balancing business requirements with delivery capacity.
• Maintain oversight of the technology portfolio, identifying risks, dependencies, competing priorities and capacity constraints before they impact delivery.
• Drive complex technology projects and transformation initiatives from concept through to successful implementation.
• Establish and lead effective project and portfolio governance across the Group IT function.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable technology roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Collaborate with engineering and Centre of Excellence teams to maintain a clear, consolidated technology roadmap.
• Ensure requirements, testing, deployment and change management activities are effectively coordinated.
• Oversee second-line support for key business technology platforms, driving continuous improvement and service excellence.
• Embed consistent ways of working, governance standards and knowledge management practices across technology teams.
• Act as a trusted technology partner, providing challenge, guidance and leadership to ensure successful outcomes.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience leading technology delivery, programmes, portfolios or business systems teams
• Strong experience working with ERP, digital, data, reporting or automation platforms
• Expertise in demand management, prioritisation, roadmap planning and resource allocation
• Strong project and portfolio governance skills, including risk, dependency and stakeholder management
• Experience operating within Agile, PRINCE2, ITIL or similar delivery frameworks
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Experience leading teams through change and driving organisational adoption
• The ability to translate business challenges into practical technology solutions
• A track record of delivering technology initiatives on time, within budget and with measurable business impact

At Alliance, you'll be joining a collaborative and ambitious business where technology is a key enabler of growth and transformation. You'll have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, lead meaningful change programmes and work alongside talented colleagues across multiple functions and geographies.

If you're passionate about technology delivery, stakeholder partnership and driving business value through innovation, we'd love to hear from you.

• We also offer great benefits including the opportunity to buy an additional 10 day holiday, and you get to work with some great people who really do put the customer at the heart of everything we do.