DC Thomson

Dynamics Team Lead & Business Central Functional Consultant

DC Thomson  •  Gateshead, GB (Hybrid)  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

Job Title: Dynamics Team Lead & Business Central Functional Consultant
Location: Gateshead, UK (Hybrid; 2 day per week in Gateshead office; occasional travel to client sites)

Synergi, part of DC Thomson media company, are currently recruiting for an experienced Dynamics Team Lead & Business Central Functional Consultant to join our growing team in Gateshead.

This is a great opportunity to join a leading Microsoft Solutions Partner and apply leadership skills and your keen desire to deliver the highest quality solutions and support services to high profile and household brand name customers.

The Dynamics Team Lead & Business Central Functional Consultant will deliver commercially successful Microsoft Dynamics Business Central engagements for clients while building a high-performing, scalable capability within the Dynamics practice. This role is a blend of client-facing functional expertise (60%) with accountable team leadership (40%) to ensure consistent delivery quality, strong utilisation, and measurable customer outcomes.

The successful candidate will turn business strategy and sales pipeline demand into effective delivery capacity, aligning skills, resource deployment and solution design to maximise revenue, margin and client value. The Dynamics Team Lead & Business Central Functional Consultant will establish standards, accelerate adoption of data, automation and AI-enabled capabilities, and drive repeatable best practices across a portfolio of clients.

Core Dynamics offerings within Synergi includes applications such as Business Central, Sales, Customer Insights, Service and Field Service plus the PowerPlatform.

Key Responsibilities Include:

A typical list of end-to-end project delivery functions that you would be required to perform includes scoping works, solution design, data transfer, configuration, UAT and training, plus go-live support directly with end users at all levels.

  • High-Quality Client Delivery - Deliver Business Central solutions that meet defined business outcomes, ensuring projects are completed to scope, quality, time and budget, with measurable client value and satisfaction.
  • Commercial Performance & Utilisation - Achieve and sustain ~60% billable utilisation while contributing to accurate estimations, effective scope control, and delivery margin through strong commercial awareness and decision-making.
  • Team Leadership & Capability - Build and lead a high-performing team with clear objectives, active development plans, and aligned skills deployment, ensuring capability is scaled in line with pipeline demand.
  • Solution Design, Data & Automation Integration - Design and oversee solutions that incorporate Business Central, Power Platform, data structures and automation opportunities, ensuring scalable, efficient and insight-driven outcomes for clients.
  • Delivery Governance & Quality Assurance - Establish and enforce consistent delivery standards, peer review processes and governance controls to ensure repeatable, high-quality outputs across all engagements.
  • Practice Growth & Innovation Contribution - Support practice growth by identifying new opportunities, contributing to propositions, and embedding best practice, reusable assets and emerging capabilities (including AI-enabled features) across the team

Requirements

Experience:

  • Business Analysis - Applies structured analysis to complex client requirements, translating business needs into scalable Business Central solutions aligned to commercial outcomes.
  • Consultancy - Provides trusted advice to clients and internal stakeholders, shaping solutions, influencing decisions and ensuring alignment between technology and business value.
  • Change Management - Leads controlled implementation of changes across projects, ensuring risks are managed and business transitions are effective and adopted.
  • IT Strategy & Planning - Contributes to practice-level planning, aligning delivery capability, pipeline demand and technology direction, including data and automation strategy.
  • Systems Design - Designs integrated Business Central and Power Platform solutions that meet functional, data and process requirements.
  • Application Support - Ensures stability and performance of live solutions, supporting clients through issue resolution and continuous improvement.
  • Learning & Development Delivery - Develops team capability through coaching, knowledge sharing and structured learning aligned to evolving technology and client needs.
  • Risk Management- Identifies, assesses and manages delivery and commercial risks across projects and team operations.
  • Data Analytics - Applies data analysis techniques to support reporting, insight generation and improved client decision-making; identifies opportunities to embed analytics into solutions.
  • Emerging Capability: AI & Automation - Applies practical understanding of AI-enabled features within Business Central and Power Platform to improve efficiency, insight generation and process automation in client solutions.

Skills:

Essential

  • Business Central

Desirable

  • Dynamics, Power Platforms, SharePoint

Qualifications

Essential

  • MB (Microsoft Business) 800 – Business Central Functional

Desirable

  • Any Dynamics Certifications

Behaviours that will help this role succeed:

Think Customer

  • Designs and delivers solutions anchored in clear customer outcomes, not just technical requirements
  • Anticipates client needs and identifies opportunities to add value or improve performance
  • Uses data, insight and feedback to continuously enhance client experience and outcomes

Get it Done

  • Takes decisive action to deliver results, balancing pace with quality and commercial impact
  • Holds self and team accountable for meeting utilisation, delivery and performance targets
  • Proactively resolves issues, removes blockers and ensures commitments are met end-to-end

Succeed Together

  • Builds strong, trusted relationships across teams, functions and clients in a matrix environment
  • Shares knowledge, assets and best practice to improve collective performance
  • Creates an inclusive, high-performing team where everyone contributes and succeeds

Keep Growing

  • Actively develops own capability and that of the team in evolving technologies, including data, automation and AI
  • Seeks feedback, reflects on performance and drives continuous improvement
  • Encourages experimentation and learning to enhance delivery excellence and innovation

To apply for this role, please follow our online application process and submit a CV and cover letter.

Closing date for applications: 29th June at 12:00noon

DC Thomson

About DC Thomson

DC Thomson is a family-owned business headquartered in Scotland, with a presence in London and across the globe. A 200-year-old company that is purpose led and future focused. And our purpose is clear: to champion, entertain and bring together our communities.

We are home to some of the UK’s best loved media brands that have been the voice of our communities for generations – from the iconic Beano, Stylist and People’s Friend to the UK’s biggest puzzle brand Puzzler and a portfolio of regional newspapers and radio stations including two of the top three best-selling regional dailies in the UK - The Press and Journal and The Courier. We have a thriving genealogy community (Findmypast), a trusted technology solutions business (Brightsolid) and a global marketing agency (Fifth Ring). From our long-established media brand, Energy Voice, an influential authority in the global energy conversation, we launched E-FWD, a membership organisation where the industry’s forward thinkers are coming together to drive the movement to secure, clean energy.

We have the influence and ambition to make a real difference towards tackling the critical issues of our time. Assets and knowledge built over decades of supporting high growth, innovative businesses allow us to make bold, long-term visionary decisions. DC Thomson is backing businesses that are making an impact in energy transition, water technology, the circular economy and food security amongst others.

Philanthropy and supporting the communities we live and work in is part of DC Thomson’s DNA, both through our brands and the Thomson family trust – The Northwood Charitable Trust.

At DC Thomson, we are modernising and ambitious, investing in technology and talent, and building brands for the digital age.  A trusted partner that is driving positive change, inspiring innovation, and fuelling growth and success and a transformative business where people, partners and communities feel part of something extraordinary.

Industry
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Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Dundee, GB
Year Founded
1905
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