Technical Specialist – Corporate Package: Salary starting from £65,000 30% company performance bonus Contract Type: Full-Time and Permanent Location: Whitbread Court, Dunstable and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office. Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and some of the UK’s favourite restaurants, processes nearly £2 billion in transactions each year and employs around 40,000 people. As our new Technical Specialist – Corporate, you’ll play a pivotal role in being the expert for Whitbread on our non-Fusion Corporate Technology supporting Supply Chain, Procurement, General Council and Property. You will be leading, designing and configuring the technology solutions in place making sure they are performant, secure and scalable With over 1,800 WAN links, 3,000 switches, and 40,000 access points, our network is as vast as our brand. You’ll work with leading technologies like Juniper, Cisco, Meraki, and HP Aruba. Why You’ll Love It Here Healthcar e: Individual & Family BUPA healthcare 10% matched pension Discounts : Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand What you’ll be doing: Work with key stakeholders across our business and Whitbread technology to develop and maintain our Technology, focusing across the whole product lifecycle, and including day-to-day operations, cost of ownership and future development. Collaborate with the Business users to understand, refine and adapt how we use technology across Support Centre to drive productivity and efficiency, to helpsupport our wider business objectives Review the performance of the platforms in production, and work with architecture and engineering to drive performance improvement plans, compliance activity and ensure overall platform resilience. What you’ll need: Strong technical knowledge of cloud services and applications. Hands-on experience with troubleshooting, deployment, and configuration. A proven track record of successful project implementations. Experience of MS365 suite and of working with Microsoft Needs to stay current with industry trends and certifications. Adapts quickly to new technologies, tools, and frameworks. A strong problem-solving mindset, identify root causes, develop solutions, and improve system efficiency Ability to lead a technical team, providing guidance on best practices and system design. Strong collaboration with business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions while managing multiple priorities and projects. Highly experienced with Supplier and Service Management. Experience of developing technology platforms, including technical architecture, estimation, planning, nonfunctional requirements, and Continuous Improvement activities using modern agile techniques. 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.