About the Role
DP World London Gateway is seeking an IT Systems Team Manager to lead the systems powering their terminal operations, ensuring world-class performance, reliability, innovation, and business continuity.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the delivery, performance, and continuous improvement of critical operational systems, including Terminal Operating Systems (TOS), business applications, integrations, and databases.
- Leading and developing a multi-disciplinary Technical IT Systems Team including Development, BA, TOS, and Database Admin.
- Driving operational excellence across TOS, applications, databases, and integrations.
- Overseeing system enhancements, testing, commissioning, and change management.
- Delivering business-critical IT projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Building strong relationships with operational stakeholders, vendors, and senior leadership.
- Supporting UK-wide standardization and collaboration between London Gateway and Southampton.
Requirements
- Must hold the right to work in the UK.
- Must meet the medical fitness requirements for the role.
- Must not have any unspent criminal convictions (DBS checks are carried out).
Skills
- Proven leadership experience within IT Systems, Terminal Operating Systems, Applications, and Technology Operations.
- ESSENTIAL Knowledge of Terminal Operating Systems (Navis experience desirable).
- Strong understanding of IT environments, system design, application architecture, and databases.
- Knowledge of software development practices, CI/CD pipelines, and source control.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, integrations, and databases.
- Experience managing technical teams across multiple disciplines.
- Background in logistics, maritime, industrial, manufacturing, or operational environments.
- Strong stakeholder management, project delivery, and problem-solving capabilities.
Location
- Stanford le Hope
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced IT Systems Leader
Salary/Compensations
- Market competitive compensation package
About the Company
- Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
- With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.
- We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
- We’re reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
- WE MAKE TRADE FLOW To Change What's Possible For Everyone
