Group Technology

Location

London | United Kingdom

Job description

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. 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. And that’s where you come in.

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.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

Working in a fast-paced environment that values innovation, we are looking for a highly motivated Service Owner who will be accountable for IT services that are critical to our business. The person will be highly focussed on customer service with a demonstrated track record of both managing internal and external suppliers and in building relationships with senior business partners. Working with Delivery stakeholders, they will be able to acquire and interpret relevant data to understand service priorities and to improve the operational efficiency of services, adding additional value within to the business functions.

• Ownership of a set of IT Services delivered to business functions, ensuring integrity is maintained and performance managed.
• Conduct IT service reviews with business functions and service providers, ensuring vendors achieve the required targets.
• Assume responsibility for the achievement of all business facing IT service measures ensuring agreed business outcomes are achieved.
• Take accountability for raised issues and Managed Incidents, ensuring prioritisation of technical resources to achieve desired outcomes.
• Clearly understand the business priorities and drivers, ensuring roadmaps for IT services are aligned accordingly.
• Ensure new Services are introduced effectively with appropriate monitoring, metrics and support in place.
• Protect services by managing risks, approving changes and planning releases.
• Work with Delivery stakeholders to foster and maintain a service culture and continuous improvement ethos.

• Experience of service management and customer facing experience within multinational companies
• Experience of Service Introduction and Delivery Management in a multi-supplier outsourced environment, through an appropriate set of agreed service levels and a suitable service monitoring and reporting framework
• Proven track record of continuous service improvement.
• You will have an ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, peers and external providers, turning technical information into business language and vice versa.
• Proven ability to influence and build effective working relationships with customers, peers, internal and external providers
• Demonstrated ability and certification in best practices or methodologies such as ITIL, Six Sigma, ISO20000
• Experience of Product & Platform Agile delivery frameworks and Dev/Ops models
• A tenacity to deliver with the resilience to deal with difficult situations

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher  here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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