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IT Product Specialist
Planning & Operational Excellence
Location: Spalding – Hybrid working
Contract Type: Permanent
Business Area: Bakkavor Ltd – Group IT
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 plus bonus scheme and private healthcare
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an IT Product Specialist to join our IT team based in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
This is a senior role operating within Group IT - which will deliver subject matter expertise and undertake responsibility for the management, development, and implementation of products / services - through their full life cycle from inception, growth, maturity and decline to retirement.
The role scope relates to the Planning/OE product pillar within a specific sub-domain in Group IT, as specified above.
As an experienced technical specialist, the Product Specialist acts as a product champion, providing advice and direction in specialist areas within specific product of a wider domain. This specialism typically includes product development activities that include design, deployment of software product configurations into new or existing software environments / platforms, testing and user training.
In this busy and exciting role, you will work closely with key internal, business, and external stakeholders to understand business requirements for the delivery of ongoing value within your relevant products.
Maintaining a deep understanding of products and building awareness of emerging technologies and products available in the sector will be top of your agenda, as will contributing to planning processes to evolve products and ensure services are understood to inform the strategy for Business Systems and Group IT.
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What you’ll receive
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
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Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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