Overview
IT Business Partner – Peterborough
Job Title: IT Business Partner
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
Are you a commercially minded technology leader who thrives at the intersection of business strategy and IT delivery? Do you enjoy influencing senior stakeholders, challenging the status quo, and turning technology capability into real business value?
Our Business Technology Services (BTS) team is looking for a Business Partner to act as a trusted bridge between BTS and our Business Units. In this role, you’ll work closely with BU CIOs and leadership teams to enable transformation, shape technology roadmaps, and ensure our services and solutions genuinely support business ambition across the ABF group.
What you’ll be doing:
- Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with assigned Business Units, acting as their primary point of contact into BTS
- Proactively drive business technology change, challenging existing ways of working and identifying safer, smarter, and more effective solutions
- Represent BTS within Business Unit technology leadership forums, while advocating BU needs and priorities within BTS governance and planning
- Influence and help shape the BTS strategy and roadmap to align with Business Unit objectives and enterprise-wide programmes
- Work closely with BTS Product Managers to understand current services and emerging capabilities, ensuring these are clearly communicated and effectively adopted within BUs
- Lead business engagement on key strategic initiatives, ensuring high-quality outcomes and a positive end-to-end experience
- Provide delivery assurance across the project and change portfolio, identifying risks, managing dependencies, and supporting continuous improvement
- Oversee BTS service performance and costs for Business Units, supporting transparency and value through an informed understanding of charging models
What you’ll bring:
- Proven experience acting as a change agent, delivering sustainable business and technology transformation
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels
- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts in clear, credible, and accessible language
- A pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset, comfortable challenging constructively and navigating competing priorities
- Strong understanding of business processes across multiple functions, alongside awareness of modern technology trends
- Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure and fast-moving environments, making sound decisions when required
- Cultural awareness and adaptability, with the resilience to succeed in a diverse, global organisation
- A collaborative, courageous, and trustworthy approach, aligned to ABF and BTS values
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.
About the Company
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 careers@abagri.com
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
