Responsible for shaping Whitbread’s strategic IS roadmap, focused on their Restaurants division. Working closely with the IS and Business Leadership teams ensuring a clear understanding of the commercial drivers, business cases, technology approach and interdependencies for each initiative within Whitbread’s programme.Key Responsibilities:• Converting the developing commercial strategy into a structured, sequenced roadmap of IS projects• Implementing processes to manage the flow of lower-level change requests into IS, ensuring these are evaluated and prioritised to enable the delivery teams to flow effectively• Offering thought leadership in the innovative use of technology to deliver the business plan• Managing the development of robust business cases for all IS related programmes• Providing constructive challenge to business leaders on the most effective use of IT spendKey areas responsible for:• Product Master Data Management • Supply Chain management including on site stock and waste• EPOS and core site strategy

Responsible for the management and definition of the Business Change demand pipeline across the Margin area of M&B, incorporating Project Management, Requirement definition and Change Management activities across the overall change programme. Key Projects include:• Delivery of PIM / MDM solution STEP• Delivery of a Data Governance Programme• EPOS rollout to over 1500 outlets – leading the Product Data integration and migration• SharePoint delivery to provide Management Information reporting to over 1500 Outlets• Product Lifecycle review