Head of Digital Delivery

Are you passionate about working in digital delivery, ensuring strategic vision and delivery aligns with corporate objectives and business needs? Do you relish the opportunity to deliver an ambitious digital programme and transformation of the IT digital delivery function? If this resonates with you then our Head of Digital Delivery role could be the next exciting chapter in your career.

What's it all about?

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering the strategic digital vision and roadmap, ensuring increasingly efficient and effective delivery of a growing pipeline of digital products and services that drive modernisation into our platforms and processes.

The ideal candidate will have robust digital delivery experience, with a strong technical background such as software development or architecture, and is now leading digital delivery within ecommerce, through a team of technical specialists.

You will enjoy being hands-on by staying close to the day to day delivery activities whilst ensuring you balance your time effectively between strategy, engagement of senior stakeholders, and delivery of multiple digital tracks, ensuring strong and appropriate governance is in place.

As well as the above, amongst other things you will be involved in demand management, quality, finance management, reporting, continuous improvement, supplier management, agile effectiveness, procurement, risk management and security and compliance.
Why Travelodge?
We believe in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can be their true self and belong. We work hard to improve the diversity of our teams and celebrate our differences. And we care about our colleagues' wellbeing, so we ensure there are plenty of resources available so everyone can look after their emotional, physical, financial and work wellbeing. We call this "Better Me".

You are a driven individual with passion, gravitas and credibility within digital delivery. You have significant experience of managing large, complex, multimillion pound agile digital e-commerce programmes including cloud-based websites and apps integrating into third party systems and cloud data stores.

You are strategic, curious and commercial with experience of high volume B2C transactional platforms underpinned by technical proficiency leading DevOps, automation, CI/CD and cloud.

You have a strong record of transforming/transitioning digital delivery functions to a more mature, agile, efficient, automated delivery model. You have managed offshore teams before as well as experience of managing suppliers and engaging stakeholders to board level., You will ideally come from a hospitality, travel or FMCG/retail background but that is not essential.

• Salary £95,000 - £110,000 depending on experience


• Hybrid working - a minimum of 60% of your time should be spent in the office, but you're welcome to come in every day if you prefer!


• 50% personal discount for hotel bookings and great friends and family discounts too!


• Contributory pension scheme


• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with length of service


• Annual bonus (discretionary)


• A focus on learning and career development