Senior Systems Lead

• Join a world class and fully immersive, design led Country Estate.

• Influence the future of ERP, warehouse, product and customer platforms.

• Receive brilliant benefits and perks.

The Newt in Somerset is far more than a luxury hotel – it’s a fully immersive country estate. Guests stay within a working landscape of gardens, farmland, orchards and heritage buildings, all restored to an exceptional standard. Food is a real standout, with a true farm to table approach where much of what’s served is grown or produced on the estate itself. Combined with world class gardens, a luxury spa, and a strong sense of sustainability and craftsmanship, The Newt offers a uniquely British, modern luxury experience that stands apart from traditional five star hotels.

What you'll be doing

As we're also growing a multi-channel food production and retail business - and we’re ready to modernise how our core systems work end-to-end.

We’re looking for a senior, engineering-minded leader to design and deliver our operating architecture across projects such as ERP, warehouse systems (WMS), product master data and a wholesale/B2B portal. This is a player-coach role leading a small team (developer + process engineer + systems/data assistant) and partnering closely with food operations, central finance and commercial teams.

Key tasks:

• Design and own the operating architecture across commerce systems.
• Lead ERP optimisation and workflow transformation.
• Establish and govern product master data as a controlled business asset.
• Deliver and maintain robust system integrations (e.g. ERP to WMS).
• Improve warehouse execution through systems and process enhancements.
• Develop and evolve wholesale, B2B and POS platforms.
• Lead, manage and develop a small, high-impact team.
• Drive system adoption and ensure sustainable change across the business.

Project Examples — the types of work you'll lead include (but are not limited to):

• Improve and govern product master data across all food and non-food product lines, establishing a single trusted source of product information.
• Modernise food production unit systems — reviewing how orders are created, processed and dispatched both internally and to external wholesale clients.
• Build modern reporting capabilities by connecting directly into the Sage database with a user-friendly reporting interface, removing reliance on manual spreadsheets.
• Design and deliver reliable integration between Sage ERP and our warehouse management system (WMS).
• Review and upgrade our point-of-sale (POS) solutions, ensuring software is current and well-integrated with back-office systems.
• Establish a scalable data structure (data warehouse/reporting layer) to support day-to-day operations and decision-making.
• Build and iterate a custom wholesale/B2B portal for our growing trade customer base.

What experience you'll need to apply

• Proven experience transforming ERP environments, with food manufacturing a bonus.
• Experience integrating ERP and WMS systems.
• Sage X3 experience or other versions of Sage ERP (this is essential).
• Real experience transforming ERP environments and integrating ERP + WMS.
• Proven ability to remove manual/spreadsheet processes and make change stick.
• Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and getting hands-on.
• Process Intro systems deep dive on-site ops visit practical case study final.
• SQL and BI skills.

What you'll get in return for your experience:

The ability to truly shape the systems for a world class site, enjoy a wide range of superb benefits in wonderful surroundings.

A salary of up to £85,000 per annum, dependant on experience, with a bonus scheme and comprehensive benefits including:

• Peace of mind with Employee Life Cover, providing your nominated loved one with 2x your salary.

• Support from our Employee Assistance Programme, including unlimited 24/7 remote GP appointments for you and your family.

• Look after your wellbeing with complimentary access to our Spa and swimming pools and our exclusive benefit of 50% off Spa Treatments.

• Stay in shape with complimentary use of our gym and wellbeing classes. • Access to our Cycle to Work scheme, supporting wellbeing and sustainable commuting.

• Complimentary staff meal when onsite – crafted by our dedicated kitchen team, often featuring fresh produce from our estate.

• Enjoy shopping in both our shops on estate and online with 30% discount for all our colleagues and free delivery for any online purchases.

• Complimentary garden membership for The Newt and our partner gardens, including the Eden Project, Kew Gardens and The Lost Gardens of Heligan.

• We value your hard work and recognise your achievements through our colleague recognition programme – Newt Awards, with the opportunity to achieve amazing rewards, including a complimentary Hotel Stay.

• Discover exclusive perks with discounted hotel stays for staff, accompanied by a 30% discount at our restaurants.

• A team that knows how to have fun with regular team engagement activities, including Fun Squad events.

• Up to 30 days annual leave each year for our full-time team.

Please note the role is on site Monday to Friday, it would be recommended that you live within fairly easy reach of Bruton, Somerset.

What’s next:

Send your CV to Roy Bennett at ADLIB recruitment by applying to this advert. Roy is working in partnership with The Newt on this vacancy.