Change Control Lead/Governance Lead/Senior Change Manager is required for a huge business/IT change and transformation programme working for this household name based near Old Street in East Central London.

The successful applicant will be required to perform a bottom up review of existing change management processes and re-draft/create new processes and procedures, chair CAB meetings, direct change control relating to the wider change group, run workshops educating others around change standards, control all governance and deputise for the overall Programme Manager as required.

Applicants applying must have demonstrable experience as a Change Management Lead Practitioner working within a busy PMO office supporting major business change or IT programmes to qualify. Please note that is a fairly senior role which is considered slightly higher level than a Change Manager due to the additional responsibilities and senior interface required. An ex-PMO Manager or Project Manager who has then moved into leading a Change and Governance area would be a good fit, assuming there is plenty of experience on managing the Change and Governance aspects.

Business Development Manager - IT Managed Services
Type: Permanent
Location: High Wycombe

Established in 1992, Allied Worldwide Ltd is a Global provider of IT managed services in over 49 countries. We work to provide solutions for Businesses within IT

Purpose of the role
We are looking for a Business Development Manager to work within our successful and expanding sales team.  In this newly created role reporting directly to the Global Sales Director and supported by a team of Internal Sales Executives and Administrators, you will be responsible for achieving revenue and gross margin targets predominantly through new business wins. With a proven track record in selling outsourced and managed IT support solutions to the corporate marketplace, the successful candidate will work closely with delivery functions in ensuring successful execution of projects, and build a personal sales pipeline for long term success.

This excellent opportunity will see you working within a dynamic, demanding and fast paced environment. Your role will become very rewarding and integral to the constant growth at Allied Worldwide. You must show yourself to be determined and resilient, with excellent people skills with the ability to influence senior internal and external stake holders.

The successful candidate will have strong organizational/multi-tasking skills, and be willing to work the hours needed to succeed in a highly goal orientated, quarterly-driven business environment and be able to work within an Agile environment

Key Responsibilities

• Selling within the managed services team, managing the complete sales cycle on deals between £150K and £3M in value.
• Your target will be revenue between £1.5M and 2M in year 1 per annum depending upon your experience.
• Selling outsourced managed support services: resourcing; service-desk solutions; desktop managed services; server support; WINTEL; maintenance (break-fix); global co-sourcing and NOC/off-site solutions.
• Gravitas to liaise with C-level executives operating in large, international blue chip organizations.
• You will be instrumental in generating leads and building a sales pipeline taking qualified opportunities from RFP stage and manage them through to closure.
• You will receive support from our global service delivery & bid teams, however your role will involve you managing directly the bid process and leveraging support from each area to support your winning solution and proposals.
• Maintain and manage personal pipeline using CRM
• Create and deliver sales plans and monthly reports in a timely manner.

Experience required

• Exceptional track record in over achieving sales targets
• Ability to identify client issues/needs and translate into compelling IT solutions to address clients requirements
• Experienced professional with at least 4-5 years working in a client facing field sales role
• Must be self sufficient and self motivated
• Ideally from a Managed Services background, Outsource or people solutions background
• Experience in selling IT managed support solutions to the corporate sector within the UK and international context - EMEA/US/APAC regions
• Ability to produce compelling proposals and presentations, along with exceptional communication and planning to ensure deadlines are met
• Computer literate with strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to engage, motivate, influence and negotiate at all levels
• Excellent commercial negotiation skills and business acumen

Unix Infrastructure Team Leader

About us
LV= is the UK's largest friendly society. Today, we have more than four million customers, of which over one million are members. Our mission is to help people look after what they love, whether that's their family's financial security, their home, their retirement, their car, even their pets.

We're famous for providing a first-class service for our customers, as well as a great place to work for our people. We have over 5,500 employees across the UK and with ambitious growth plans for the future; we're committed to behaving like a mutual while performing like a PLC.

About the role
As Unix Infrastructure Team Leader you will provide leadership to, and hold day to day responsibility for, the Unix Infrastructure team.  You'll ensure the team provides a customer focused second and third line infrastructure support service, resolving technical issues and delivering technical projects.

Pivotal to the role is the ability to design and execute the UNIX server strategy which will be based upon high availability, disaster recovery and efficient server admin.  Providing practical input to the evolution of the technologies implemented.

Just as importantly you will advise teams and areas across the business on technical issues and translate business requirements into technical solutions. You'll ensure that any service failures are dealt with in the most efficient way, reducing any disruption to the business to a minimum.  What's more, you will work closely with a number of external service providers in order to maintain successful commercial relationships, ensuring consistency of approach to technology deployment, within budget and on time.

About you

To be successful within this role you will be able to demonstrate a proven track record within technical team leadership of a Unix team in a mission critical environment, coupled with substantial technical experience in deploying and administering a wide variety of Unix systems, implementation of commercial and open source products.

You'll possess the ability to work with multiple technologies such as firewall, storage and network protocols and have the ability to grasp new technologies quickly to determine if appropriate.  In addition to this, you'll have good working knowledge of working with software change control systems and change control of technical environments.

Just as importantly you'll have the ability to write technical documentation and investment proposals for presentation to IT management and other technical teams, as well as the ability to interface with the business to assist in the understanding of detailed technical information.

You will also possibly have a degree, HND or equivalent in Information Technology.

About the rewards
We want you to love what you do. That's why we've put together a benefits package that recognises and rewards a job well done. We'll give you a competitive pension, an annual bonus scheme, 30 days' holiday (with the option to buy and sell days every year) private medical insurance as well as a flexible benefits package. There's also the option of 25% off our general insurance products, including home and car.

Interested?

Then head to our careers pages for more information and to apply online.

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LV= is an equal opportunities employer.