Technology Platforms Strategy & Innovation Director - brambles

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model .

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the development of forward-looking platform strategies by integrating industry trends, emerging technologies, and business priorities into a coherent direction.
• Provide independent architectural oversight across end user, edge, cloud, and network platforms to ensure consistency, scalability, and resilience.
• Partner with digital, cyber, and operational teams to shape technology solutions early in the lifecycle, improving design quality and reducing downstream risk.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, commercially relevant narratives that support executive understanding and informed decision-making.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with vendors, partners, and industry networks to bring external innovation and insights into the organisation.
• Influence cross-platform alignment by ensuring initiatives are coherent, interoperable, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Produce high-quality strategic artefacts, including technology strategies, options analyses, and investment cases, to support leadership forums.
• Enable stronger risk awareness and mitigation by applying architectural judgement and challenge across technology and resilience initiatives.

The Technology Strategy & Innovation Lead is a senior leadership role within the Technology Platforms organisation, created to add critical technologist capacity, strategic depth, and architectural oversight to the leadership team.

This role does not own platform delivery. Instead, it provides senior technical leadership, early-stage engagement, and strategic orchestration across Technology Platforms, Cyber, Digital, and Supply Chain—working earlier in the lifecycle to shape direction, influence design, and improve outcomes.

The role exists to ensure Technology Platforms has:

• A stronger seat at the enterprise table
• Earlier, higher-quality engagement in Digital and Supply Chain-led initiatives