About the role:
Head of Engineering
Holland & Barrett International is committed to becoming the world's leading health and wellness business. With a focus on innovation and growth, we aim to be the number one wellness brand globally. Technology plays a pivotal role in our journey, driving our transformation into a leading omni-channel retailer. We're investing in cutting-edge technology to enhance the retail experience, increase convenience, and deliver personalized solutions to our customers.
Position
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Engineering to support our Supply Chain engineering team and drive our engineering initiatives forward. This role will be instrumental in developing scalable, stable, secure, and resilient applications that enhance the end to end supply chain experience through internal tooling, automation, and full-stack engineering practices.
As the Head of Engineering at Holland and Barrett, you will embark on an exciting journey as the visionary leader of our dynamic engineering teams, guiding them towards achieving our ambitious goals. You will champion the development and implementation of cutting-edge engineering solutions, partnering with the Head of Product for Supply Chain and our business partners that propel us towards our company objectives, driving innovation at every turn.
You will deeply understand our company direction and translate them into actionable technical requirements, paving the way for transformative solutions. Cultivating a culture of relentless improvement and forward thinking within our engineering teams, you will ensure creativity and innovation flourish in a fast-paced environment, while also influence our Product and Business partners in delivering the highest value outcomes.
These are some of the essential duties and responsibilities for the role of Head of Engineering. However, this list is not exhaustive, as the position is evolving alongside our company's growth
- Flexibility in adapting to various technologies and willingness to learn new tools and methodologies.
- You'll lead software engineering managers and teams, driving our technology strategy.
- Mentoring team members will be key, fostering a culture of accountability, customer impact, and business improvement.
- Collaborating closely with Product & Data teams, you'll ensure effective problem-solving and alignment of outcomes.
- Play a strategic role in providing direction that will align supply chain initiatives with our goals for customer success
- Fostering an Engineering Excellence culture, you'll support teams' success and stay updated on emerging technologies.
- Promoting collaboration across departments and stable processes, you'll empower team members for overall success.
Key requirements:
What we're looking for:
- Strong technical expertise in engineering, with previous hands-on experience across a broad tech stack.
- Proven ability to drive engineering culture and innovation within an organization.
- Persuasive personality with excellent influencing skills to foster a culture of innovation and thinking differently.
- Experience in consulting on quality aspects, ensuring code quality and problem-solving skills meet industry standards.
- Strong experiencein driving agile practices and the ability to transform legacy working methods.
- Supply chain experience, particularly in supply and demand management, forecasting, and distribution center operations.
- Commercial forecasting experience, with the ability to balance supply and demand against financial forecasting.
What we offer:
- Bonus Potential: Earn up to a 33% bonus.
- Learn and grow your skills with some of the best in the industry at H&B.
- We provide the best tech equipment to help you produce your best work.
- Health Discounts: Enjoy a 25% discount on all product ranges to support your healthy lifestyle.
- Recognition: Your hard work won't go unnoticed with our Colleague Recognition Scheme.
- Benefit from a company contribution of up to 7% towards your pension.
- Take care of your wellbeing with 33 days of holiday per year.
- Private Medical Care: Comprehensive coverage for you and your spouse.
- Life Insurance: Coverage up to three times your salary after six months of service.
- Car Allowance: Additional support for your travel needs.
- Epic Extras: Access exclusive benefits, free advice, and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
- 24/7 Confidential Support: Free, confidential advice and colleague welfare services available anytime.
Application Details:
At Holland & Barrett, we've embraced hybrid working, splitting our time between our Nuneaton and London offices and the convenience of working from home. You'll learn more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later in the recruitment process.
If you are ready to combine your passion for wellness and technology, and possess strong engineering expertise, we would love to hear from you.
Thank you for your application, please bear with us, we're doing our best to get back to everyone. If you have not heard back from us within 10 days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
About H&B
Holland & Barrett is one of the nation's most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors.
Bucking the current trend of high street retailers, we forecast significant growth and expansion plans in the coming years, with considerable investment going into all areas of the business. We certainly embrace change and drive speed in everything we do. Every day presents a different challenge, but every day is also filled with fun, teamwork and passion to succeed and surpass every expectation.
We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.
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