Technology Business Partner

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Peterborough
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ABF Business Technology Services
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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Technology Business Partner

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)

Are you an experienced technology leader or strategic business partner with a passion for connecting business strategy to technology outcomes? Do you thrive on building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, shaping technology demand, and driving meaningful change across complex organisations?

Our team is looking for a talented Technology Business Partner to join a growing and evolving function. In this role, you will work closely with Business Unit CIOs, technology leaders, and senior stakeholders to align business priorities with technology capabilities, ensuring investment, change initiatives, and service strategies deliver measurable value. You'll act as a trusted advisor, influencing decision-making, shaping future roadmaps, and helping deliver technology-enabled transformation across the organisation.

What you'll be doing:
- Build and maintain trusted strategic relationships with Business Unit CIOs, IT leaders, and senior stakeholders, acting as the primary point of contact between Group Services and assigned business units.
- Develop a deep understanding of business strategies, priorities, risks, investment plans, and transformation objectives to ensure technology initiatives support organisational goals.
- Shape, qualify, and prioritise technology demand, ensuring initiatives are aligned to clear business outcomes, value drivers, and strategic objectives.
- Maintain visibility of business technology roadmaps and work with Product Managers to align future technology capabilities and service offerings to business needs.
- Facilitate prioritisation and trade-off discussions where competing demands, funding constraints, or resource limitations exist.
- Provide commercial insight and guidance on technology investment decisions, helping stakeholders understand costs, value, service consumption, and return on investment.
- Lead Quarterly Business Reviews and provide strategic governance across key initiatives, ensuring programmes remain aligned to agreed business outcomes.
- Support the successful adoption of technology and transformation initiatives by identifying risks, dependencies, stakeholder impacts, and change readiness requirements.
What you'll bring:
- Significant experience in a Technology Business Partner, Business Relationship Manager, IT Business Partner, Technology Leadership, or similar strategic stakeholder-facing role.
- Proven ability to build credibility and influence senior stakeholders, including CIOs, technology leaders, and business executives.
- Strong understanding of business processes and how technology can be leveraged to drive operational and commercial outcomes.
- Experience shaping technology demand, investment decisions, portfolios, roadmaps, and technology-enabled transformation programmes.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to articulate value, costs, risks, and investment trade-offs.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for diverse audiences.
- Experience operating within complex, multi-stakeholder environments and managing competing priorities effectively.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge constructively, influence decision-making, and drive alignment across teams.
- A collaborative, resilient, and forward-thinking approach, with a passion for delivering business value through technology.
Location

Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture.

Associated British Foods Business Technology Services are continually reviewing our benefits to ensure our staff feel rewarded…

Associated British Foods is a global giant when it comes to the world of food processing and retail. Our ingredients division is the world’s second-largest producer of both sugar and baker’s yeast and our grocery brands occupy leading positions across the globe meaning that, in the UK, nine out of ten households use our brands.

Associated British Foods Business Technology Services (BTS) was first established in 2008 to deliver a centralised IT infrastructure and service to our fellow ABF businesses. We have now grown and operate in over 185 locations spread across 23 countries supported by a fantastic team of nearly 200. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and we’re looking for people who are eager to join us in supporting and delivering this vision.

We want you to be a part of our future and to support you, so below are a handful of some of our benefits that are offered to our employees.

AB Foods BTS match up to 10% pension (contributory)
Up to 10% Bonus
Opportunity to buy up to 5 days holiday per calendar year
Discounts on ABF products such as Twinings, Silverspoon, Pataks and Ryvita
24/7 free and confidential access to an Employee Assistance Programme to support you as and when necessary
Free lunch option available every day
Access to a staff shop with discounted ABF brand products

We’re looking for dedicated and conscientious people who embrace and live our values. If you are an individual who thrives in a collaborative, trusting and pioneering work environment, ABF could be the right company for you.

All recruitment activities into our ABF BTS team are supported by our AB Agri business.

Making your application

Ready to apply? Great! Simply register your details and upload your CV via our careers website – it usually takes just a few minutes. Please do not delay making your application. In the event of a high candidate response to this vacancy we may close the application period before the date shown and without notice.

So that we can support you to perform at your best, please let us know of any adjustments that may be required throughout the recruitment process by emailing [email protected]

As part of your application, we ask you to answer some equal opportunities questions that help us to monitor how inclusive our recruitment process is and identify areas we can improve in. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions with no impact on your application.

ABF BTS recruitment is supported by our AB Agri group and we politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We have a PSL and do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Taylor Waldon via [email protected].

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