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Technical Implementation Manager

United KingdomUnited Kingdom·Birminghammid
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Quick Summary

Overview

Client Facing Role, Automotive Technology Scale Up Salary range: up to £70,000 Location: London/Birmingham Travel: Regular travel to partner sites expected (approximately 25-40%),

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Responsibilities

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Requirements

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  • Capture, structure, and validate customer requirements, translating them into well-defined delivery roadmaps

  • Own the integration roadmap across multiple concurrent customer programmes, balancing priorities across delivery teams

  • Run regular roadmap review sessions with customers and internal stakeholders, surfacing risks early and managing scope clearly

  • Maintain a clear view of the product backlog and delivery pipeline, working with engineering leads to sequence work effectively

  • Lead the delivery of key technical integrations, including OEM system connections, DMS platforms, finance provider APIs, 3rd party data providers and inventory data feeds

  • Own the customer onboarding journey from contract signature through to go-live, coordinating across product, engineering, and customer teams

  • Produce and maintain integration specifications, technical scoping documents, and delivery plans in close collaboration with engineering

  • Identify and resolve technical blockers, escalating where needed and keeping all stakeholders aligned throughout

  • Serve as the primary conduit between customers and our engineering teams, ensuring requirements are understood, well-scoped, and delivered to specification

  • Support engineering teams in managing priorities, balancing customer demand against platform development goals

  • Facilitate reviews, standups, and retrospectives where customer context is required, ensuring delivery cadence is maintained

  • Track project health across delivery milestones, proactively communicating status, risks, and decisions to all parties

  • Work closely with the commercial team to define scopes of work & delivery plans

  • Ensure that project scope is clearly bounded, change-controlled, and commercially accountable, managing out-of-scope requests professionally

  • Contribute to pre-sales processes by providing technical scoping, delivery timelines, and effort estimates for new business proposals

  • Support strategic account reviews by providing delivery performance data and forward-looking roadmap input

  • Build trusted, expert-led relationships with technical and operational contacts at customer organisations across OEMs, dealer groups, and leasing companies

  • Act as an escalation point for delivery issues, handling complex conversations with composure and a solution-first mindset

  • Proactively communicate project updates, milestone achievements and risks, always maintaining confidence and clarity

  • Champion the customer perspective internally, ensuring the voice of the customer shapes product and delivery decisions

  • 5+ years in a technical project management or delivery management role within automotive technology, automotive SaaS, or digital retail

  • Proven experience managing complex technical integrations. Ideally involving OEM systems, DMS platforms, finance APIs, or inventory data

  • Knowledge of API architecture, data integration patterns, or web platform delivery

  • Strong understanding of the automotive digital retail landscape and the ecosystem of systems that support vehicle sales and leasing

  • Demonstrable track record of delivering multi-stakeholder programmes on time and within scope, in agile delivery environments

  • Exceptional requirements management skills: able to translate ambiguous customer needs into structured technical briefs

  • Commercially literate: able to work with scopes of work, change requests, and delivery plans in a contract-aware environment

  • Strong communicator with the ability to build credibility with both technical engineering teams and non-technical customer stakeholders

  • Highly organised with a disciplined approach to documentation, milestone tracking, and risk management

  • Experience working with European automotive OEMs, dealer networks, or leasing providers

  • Familiarity with agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and tools such as Jira, or equivalent

  • Background in or exposure to e-commerce platforms, digital retail configuration tools, or vehicle finance systems

  • Experience in a high-growth scale-up environment

We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Birmingham, United Kingdom
On-site at the office
Who can apply
GB

Listing Details

First seen
June 4, 2026
Last seen
July 31, 2026

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drivvnTechnical Implementation Manager