ITIL Change & Release Manager
At a glance
Manager-level DevOps & Release role at Computacenter. Hatfield · no salary stated · we estimate £53,281–£65,000 across the United Kingdom.
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What you'll do
- Agree each release’s scope with customer teams and secure internal support commitments for delivery
- Track change requests and releases, keeping approvals, progress, corrective actions and service improvements current in the management system
- Assess production impacts and scheduling risks, resolving approval, documentation and timing disputes before implementation
- Coordinate with incident, problem and configuration management, and keep change policies and process documentation current
- Share schedules, meeting notes and performance reports, including exceptions for high-impact, aborted or unauthorized changes
What you bring
- At least three years of professional experience, with an IT background or a completed technical degree
- IT infrastructure and IT service management knowledge, plus basic process-flow analysis and improvement experience
- ITIL V4 Foundation certification or experience working as a process manager
- You can work independently, present measurable performance information and build relationships across service teams and customers
Who this fits
This role suits someone who can coordinate change and release work across customers, internal support teams and service management. You can be based in Nottingham or Hatfield, and must already hold or be able to obtain security clearance.
From the employer
Location: GBR - CC Hatfield Adm, GBR - CC Nottingham | Job-ID: 220870 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Information Technology
Life on the team
ITIL Change & Release Manager
Nottingham or Hatfield Considered
Candidates - will require the ability to gain (or already have Security Clearance)
The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of the Change & Release Service to specific customers. Ensuring efficient and prompt handling of all Changes & Releases in a client’s infrastructure and to minimize the Risk and Impact to their estate by using standardized methods and procedures.
What you’ll do
- Define the scope and contents of each release with the relevant customer business, ensuring that agreement and commitment is provided by internal support teams to effectively support its delivery.
- Gather information and track status of all change requests and release implementations
- Ensure all Requests for Changes are registered.
- Ensure all logged Request for Changes, are promptly and correctly approved by authorized approvers.
- Ensure all Change Requests & Releases are kept up to date on the Tool Management System with progress that occurs, including any actions to correct problems and/or to take opportunities to improve service quality.
- Ensure the change and release policy and processes are adhered to in the release of all changes into all environments.
- Understand and analyse any impacts of, including scheduling risks, all projects that will introduce change to the production environments
- Mediate all conflicts regarding scheduling, lack of approval or lack of documentation prior to implementation of the change
- Coordinate with Incident Management, Problem Management and Configuration Management to ensure correct and consistent data is provided to the Change and Release Management processes
- Ensure process, procedure and work instruction documentation for Change and Release Management activities are correct and up-to-date
- Distribute the change and release schedules and pipelines within agreed timeframes
- Communicate technical change and release activities and impact to the business; providing performance data reporting, issues and review follow-up; and performing other duties as required such as ITIL process implementation support
- Produce and distribute weekly change and release meeting minutes
- Provide regular, robust and accurate reporting on change requests and release including exception reporting on high impact, aborted and unauthorised changes.
What you’ll need
- At least 3 years of professional experience from several years of experience in the IT environment or a completed technical degree
- Ability to build and maintain good relationships with all levels of service management, the customer and Computacenter’s internal service providers
- Skills in the areas of IT Infrastructure Services and IT Service Management (ITIL)
- Basic experience in the analysis, design and optimization of process flows
- Ability to present performance measurably
- Basic knowledge of common service management tools
- ITIL V4 Foundation certification or experience as a process manager
- The ability to work independently
About us
We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.
We’re a place where you can belong
With over 21,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.
You’ll see this reflected in our recruitment process too. We aim to provide fair access to opportunities and an inclusive, barrier‑free experience. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the skills and experience we need.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme. If you opt in and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you’ll be guaranteed an interview, and we’re happy to support any reasonable adjustments. Please let us know when you apply.
If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!
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