IT Change and Release Manager
Job Description
Location: Remote (some travel to site as required)
Contract Type: Permanent
Business Area: Bakkavor Ltd – IT
We’re the biggest name you’ve never heard of. You’ve probably eaten our food – you just didn’t realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.
Change and Release Manager
In this busy and exciting role you will be accountable for managing Change Control, including daily Change Schedules and CAB and working with delivery teams to ensure product change/release is appropriately managed in line with corporate standards.
You will also be responsible for successful Release, applying the process, systems and functions required to make new and changed services available for use. This includes assessment, planning and design of release packages, major system Release schedules.
Working with business and technology stakeholders at all levels you will be accountable for the successful execution of the Change Control Process and Release Management Process.
About you
Ideally, you will be educated to bachelor degree level and be holding a relevant professional qualification or alternatively a relevant IT apprenticeship qualification at Level 4 and RITTech, with additional experience.
You will have significant practical knowledge of Change, Release and Configuration Management systems ideally within a manufacturing environment. Monitoring of technology risks will be key, as will a demonstratable experience of working with stakeholders at all levels.
You will be able to evidence practical involvement in all stages of the project delivery life cycle from feasibility through to support and will have an in depth understanding of risk test management activities.
If you have excellent communication skills with substantial experience in dealing with internal and external users and a passion for IT service delivery, this could be the perfect role for you.
What you can expect from us
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension, bonus, private medical insurance, and other flexible benefits – alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to deliver outstanding quality, service, and value to our customers. We’re proud to be the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK. And we’re proud of the hard work, quality focus and loyalty of our people. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.