ABOUT YOU:

You are a detail-oriented and proactive environment manager with strong technical and organisational expertise. You have a solid background in managing pre-production test systems, coordinating with delivery teams, and ensuring optimal use of infrastructure to support major change programs.
You thrive on solving complex scheduling and capacity challenges and are known for maintaining a high standard of reliability and consistency across testing platforms. Your communication skills allow you to work seamlessly across multiple functions, from IT to business stakeholders, ensuring test environments meet all project requirements.
You’re passionate about quality, efficiency, and process improvement—and you bring a practical mindset to driving best practice adoption across global teams. If you’re looking for an opportunity to take ownership of environment strategy at a global level, this role offers the scope and influence to make a meaningful impact.

• Own and manage the scheduling, currency, and technical health of RS Group’s test environments.
• Act as the key liaison between testing teams, technology leads, and project stakeholders to optimise environment usage and reduce bottlenecks.
• Partner with Heads of SAP, Functional, Digital, and Non-Functional Testing to deliver seamless end-to-end testing experiences across the group.
• Establish strong partnerships with the OCIO, architects, business analysts, and delivery teams to align environment plans with project requirements.
• Ensure patching, data integrity, version control, and tooling align closely with live production systems.
• Track and shape demand for environments based on project forecasts, proactively identifying scheduling conflicts and capacity gaps.
• Define and monitor KPIs for environment performance, availability, and usage.
• Embed a culture of accountability, best practice, and service excellence in environment management.
• Continuously seek out opportunities to improve performance through automation, tooling, and enhanced collaboration.
• Bring external insights and innovations into the RS testing estate by staying engaged with industry trends and best practices.
• Ensure environment-related risks and issues are proactively managed, with minimal disruption to critical project milestones.Proactively identify IT service gaps and contribute to improvement efforts and advocate for advance sharing and knowledge of IT processes, frameworks, roles, and capabilities across testing and environment management.