Change Analyst


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Recruiter

Kingfisher

Listed on

22nd September 2022

Location

Southampton

Salary/Rate

Competitive

Salary Notes

Competitive

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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We're Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçta?. We're made up of 79,000 passionate people, with 1,302 stores which operate in 10 countries. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. That's where you come in! When you become part of our team, you'll see the impact you have in every decision you make. At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. If you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us. 

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles. Want to apply as a job share, or propose a way of working that isn't the traditional 9am - 5.30pm, Monday through to Friday? We're all ears.

We are seeking a highly motivated and analytical thinker to become our Change Analyst who will be responsible for ensuring that Changes that are deployed into the production environment follow all agreed processes.

Ensure the prescribed change process is followed (e.g. Receive, log, filter, categorise and allocate an initial priority to, in collaboration with the initiator, all Requests for Change (RFC) returning incomplete or incorrect RFC to initiator.)

Validate initial prioritisation and categorisation of RFCs.

Liaise with all necessary individuals to coordinate the building, testing, and implementation of changes as per the Forward Schedule of Changes.

Ensure correct approvals are attached on RFC's

Be vigilant in the monitoring of all changes from the build to the test stages.

Ensure an adequate review takes place of each change - before, during and after.

Chairs the Change Advisory Board (CAB) & Change Advisory Board/Emergency Committee (CAB/EC).

Impact analysis of RFC's

Implementation and significant milestone planning with Change Requestors

Prepare and deliver communications of impacts

Validate the configuration items are recorded/updated properly

Propose process improvement - provide input to policies and processes

Measuring and reporting on service through appropriate statistical reporting.

User training/education and support

Experience in leading structured ITIL processes in a large corporate environment, especially change management, and ideally with configuration management

Experience of service management and customer facing experience within multinational companies, preferably with IT operations in multiple countries and exposure to large and complex IT environment

Good knowledge and practise of an ITSM tool, and how ITIL processes are implemented

Experience in retail or similar industry with a Digital dev-ops approach

Experience of administrating an effective change management process utilising appropriate technology

Proven ability to influence and build effective working relationships with customers, peers, and external providers and ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language

Able to work in a diverse, multinational teams and to influence others to achieve positive outcomes

International orientation - prepared to travel internationally, work experience in an international context (preferable)

Strong experience in ServiceNow ITSM tool or equivalent

Ability to understand large IT infrastructure and application environments

Can influence peers and seniors within the organisation and excellent team working

Service ethos, using influencing skills to enable appropriate and timely implementation of change.

Quality orientation and attention to detail whilst delivering tight deadlines

Project planning experience (or similar) ability, able to work well with deadlines

Broad perspective of the IT function and the application of information technology for business benefit

Awareness of tools, suppliers, and market direction of change management related technologies

Our Benefits;

Flexible/hybrid working.

Comprehensive healthcare plans.

PTO and family leave.

Retirement plans.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our global business. In return, we provide an inspirational working environment, a competitive benefits package and opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Interested? Great, apply now!

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