Change and Release Lead

We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Change and Release Manager

Location: Hybrid (1-2 days in Spalding office)

Contract Type: Permanent

Business Area: Bakkavor Ltd – IT

Salary: Competitive

Why join us?

We’re proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience. As a valued Change and Release Manager, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do

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.   

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’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

• Bonus up to 10%

• A stakeholder pension scheme
• Personal accident Insurance
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Employee assistance programme

• A range of voluntary benefits

• Holiday purchase scheme
• Additional life assurance
• Dental & hospital cash plans
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools
• Affordable loans via your salary
• Proud to be and loyal service awards. 

• Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!