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Allied Bakeries is home to Kingsmill, a top ten UK grocery brand, as well as a number of other well known household brands such as Burgen, Allinson and Sunblest. We operate in 19 sites across UK and Ireland with over 4,500 people ensuring that we deliver our great products to a broad range of customers, day in day out to every postcode in the UK! We’re proud to be a part of Associated British Foods (ABF) plc. - a £13.4bn FTSE 40 diversified international food, ingredients and retail group working in 50 countries worldwide. Whilst this scale sounds impressive, we're not stopping there - we have ambitious plans to grow our business. We have a clear and consistent business strategy and we are part way through a significant change to our business and our culture. We are making significant investments into our plant, brands and our people which are all about growing our business. Our people already make a huge difference – and will be the key to our future growth. We are incredibly passionate about our business and we are always thinking about how we can do things differently to improve. Our business isn’t for the faint hearted – it's pacey, relentless and demanding; our people take a positive attitude and operate in a friendly and open way. We take massive pride in what we do, and how we operate. We want people to develop their careers with us and find that the more you put in, the more you get out. www.alliedjobs.co.uk www.alliedbakeries.co.uk www.abf.co.uk www.abf-grocery-grads.com

1 job(s) at Allied Bakeries

Application Services Manager
Allied Bakeries Bootle L30 6TG, UK
Oct 09, 2018
Full time
Our Information Services (IS) team are based out of our Shared Service Centre in Liverpool and we are looking for an Application Services Manager to join the team. So who are we?  We're the people who make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Burgen, Allinson and Sunblest. We're a part of Associated British Foods (ABF) plc, a major international business with a turnover of £12.3bn and close to 106,000 employees working in 47 countries. The role: The prime responsibility of this role is to support and develop IS services used by the organisation and to ensure that application services are monitored and supported at all times, then as required manage incidents to resolve user issues and resource projects designed to upgrade them. This is an excellent opportunity for a manager with proven experience of managing a multi skilled team of development and support staff to make a difference to our transforming team. We need someone who is keen to input new ideas and innovative ways of working into the organisation. One aim is to move towards a DevOps method of working and experience in this area will be valuable although not essential. This role is focussed on managing a technical applications development and support resource pool, both on and off-site and is not a SDM role, although working in partnership with the SDM will be essential to success. You will work as part of a wider Application Services Management team to ensure services are delivered through utilisation of specific knowledge and development of technical skills across the team. This role requires you to be skilled in stakeholder management within IS and with external stakeholders. Key Accountabilities: Through a good understanding of ITIL best practice you will ensure process and control exists and is applied for all major processes, including incident, change, release and problem management.   Definition and support of 3rd Party Vendor Service and Operational Level agreements and related reporting measures, providing an effective interface between users and providers.   Working with your own and other Support and Development teams to ensure the design, set up, testing and deployment of new functionality as part of the IS strategy via a robust Change and Release process.   Direct and co-ordinate the activities of the team, ensuring the right level of capability exists to meet current and future business needs. Resource management within the team for project and BAU work is a key requirement of the role. Skills: To be successful in this role you must have a great understanding of ITIL, application landscapes and resourcing in practice, with sound leadership skills. As well as being skilled in negotiation and stakeholder management, you will be comfortable managing relationships at all levels and will possess good communicate skills.  With people at the forefront of your approach, we are looking for clear evidence of team leadership and development across similar roles. To support all this you will also need a good technical understanding of application and to a lesser extent infrastructure services and the complexities of them.