We’re looking for a Technical Product Lead to help shape and deliver technology products that support our hotel and restaurant operations.
Working closely with the Technical Product Manager, you’ll turn product strategy and business priorities into a clear roadmap, prioritised backlog and actionable delivery plan. Acting as the day-to-day product owner, you’ll ensure new capabilities are successfully designed, delivered, adopted and continuously improved
Role: Technical Product Lead (F&B)
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Location: Whitbread Court, Dunstable
Level: 4
Why You’ll Love It Here
- Healthcare: Family BUPA healthcare
- 10% matched pension
- Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand
- Annual Incentive of up to 20% Bonus
Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/
What you’ll be doing:
You’ll own and prioritise the backlog for a defined portfolio of Hotels & Restaurants technology products, translating roadmap objectives into clear epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria. You’ll lead product refinement, planning, acceptance and review activities, while managing priorities, dependencies, risks and trade-offs across multiple products and delivery cycles.
Working closely with Engineering, QA, Release, Service, Operations, Delivery and Business Change teams, you’ll ensure new capabilities are successfully designed, delivered and adopted. You’ll also make sure service readiness, security, resilience and the transition into BAU are considered throughout delivery.
Following release, you’ll monitor product performance, usage, adoption and value, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. You’ll also support suppliers and technology partners to deliver against agreed priorities, quality standards and business outcomes.
What you’ll need:
- Experience as a Product Lead, Product Owner, Business Analyst, Delivery Lead or in a similar technology delivery role.
- Strong experience managing product backlogs and translating business outcomes into clear delivery requirements.
- Confidence working with technical, operational and business stakeholders in a complex environment.
- Excellent prioritisation, communication and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to balance customer value, operational impact, risk, cost and delivery capacity.
- Experience in hospitality, retail, travel or another multi-site, customer-facing organisation would be advantageous.
Be part of our Technology Team at Whitbread
Through collaboration, passion and hiring the smartest minds, our Technology team builds products and services that are used by 38,000 of us at Whitbread and millions of guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £2 billion in transactions per year, applications that are scalable across our 1,200 hotel and restaurants, devices that enable our teams and guests to have a seamless experience, all whilst keeping data secure. Together we’re building the hotel of the future
Skills Required
- Experience as a Product Lead, Product Owner, Business Analyst, Delivery Lead, or in a similar technology delivery role
- Strong experience managing product backlogs and translating business outcomes into clear delivery requirements
- Confidence working with technical, operational and business stakeholders in a complex environment
- Excellent prioritisation, communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to balance customer value, operational impact, risk, cost and delivery capacity
- Experience in hospitality, retail, travel, or another multi-site customer-facing organisation
What We Do
Whitbread is a UK hospitality company that owns and operates Premier Inn, the country’s largest hotel brand, alongside restaurant brands including Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Bar + Block, Cookhouse and Pub, and Table Table. Its business spans more than 1,200 hotels and restaurants across the UK, with a growing hotel presence in Germany and the Middle East, serving millions of guests through recognizable hospitality brands.
