Role: Change and Release Manager REF 81844
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Southport - travel as required (minimum of twice per month) Potential on-call/out of hours working – to a minimum (during deployments) – Not necessarily called on-site
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Change and Release Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHANGE AND RELEASE MANAGER
- leading and managing the Release Management process and allocated staff and workload for the assigned services, ensuring that standards and timescales are met, whilst demonstrating value for money
- •organising team engagement with Incident Management during major incidents, ensuring that appropriate release management representation is made on technical bridge calls when required.
- Managing patterns or trends of non-compliance of the Release assurance policies and processes, by engaging at a senior level with Business Portfolios, Suppliers, Transition or Project Managers where necessary
- Engaging with service transition teams to define processes for interim operating model capabilities for those assigned to release management.
- Setting the strategy for the Operational Release Management team, deciding areas of focus and priority, ensuring that processes are well-documented and reflective of best practice, and agreeing templates and frameworks for process variations.
- Support Portfolio stakeholders in all programme delivery activities.
- Provide inputs to help develop delivery strategies, scheduling delivery.
- Manage program/portfolio schedule.
- Plan and organise Go / NO-GO meetings and help achieve decisions.
- Update business stakeholders on progress and everything related to delivering the project.
- Manage portfolio delivery pipeline.
- Organise and contribute to CAB (Change Board)
- Review resource and skill availability to ensure effective delivery.
- Co-ordinate with different project managers, delivery teams and help resolve queries, blockers.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE CHANGE AND RELEASE MANAGER
- experience of developing, implementing, and adhering to ITIL v3 / v4 management processes and procedures
- performing a similar role within the Civil Service or at other organisations
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to communicate effectively and professionally.
- proven ability to lead and manage large teams.
- proven ability to build and manage relationships with suppliers and senior stakeholders.
- excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- deeply customer-focused
- Excellent document writing and presentation skillset
- Proven ability to influence Service Architect & Design function to develop robust plans focused on service introduction and releases to minimise disruption to operational services
If you are a Change and Release Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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