- Manage the lifecycle of RFCs, ensuring all entries in the Change Management System are complete, accurate, and appropriately authorised.
- Engage with business and IT stakeholders to understand change drivers, assess impacts, risks, and feasibility, and secure buy-in for planned changes.
- Provide clear, consistent communication throughout the change process to ensure all parties are kept informed of progress and outcomes.
- Prepare and facilitate Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, ensuring proper documentation of decisions, actions and follow-ups.
- Oversee the deployment of changes across development, testing and live environments, spanning BAU activities and strategic initiatives.
- Support Release Management processes and ensure effective alignment with Change Management controls.
- Maintain and circulate the Forward Schedule of Change (FSoC), ensuring transparency and effective planning.
- Participate in Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs), capturing lessons learned from failed or high-impact changes.
- Produce regular KPI and compliance reporting to support governance and continuous improvement.
- Deliver training and guidance to new joiners on change management procedures and tooling.
- Support quarterly control assessments and compliance submissions (e.g. J-SOX).
- Contribute to ongoing process refinement as part of the team's continual service improvement (CSI) efforts.
- Coordinate service transition plans, ensuring all activities and controls are completed before go-live.
- Promote a risk-aware, compliance-focused culture aligned with regulatory and operational best practice.
- Demonstrable experience in IT change and service transition, ideally within a regulated environment such as insurance or financial services.
- Understanding of ITIL principles with certification in ITIL v3 (Release, Control & Validation or Service Transition) or ITIL v4 equivalent.
- Familiarity with the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and project delivery frameworks.
- Broad understanding of infrastructure components including servers, storage, networking (LAN/WAN), cloud platforms, and virtual desktops.
- High degree of accuracy, organisation and attention to detail.
- Clear and confident communicator with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Resilient and adaptable, able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, change-driven environment.
- Proactive and delivery-focused, with a strong sense of accountability.
- Collaborative mindset with the confidence to challenge constructively and negotiate outcomes.
- Professional approach with a sound understanding of operational risk and service continuity.