At Kingfisher, we're very fortunate that the company prioritise investment in IT Systems & Infrastructure. Which means for me and my team, the variety of work is vast and there's always something new to learn. As an organisation, we're constantly innovating and embracing change which can impact our ways of working, content and people. To manage a team through this can be challenging but change can be vital, especially with our current economic landscape. My role enables me to try and really understand how the team are feeling, to represent them and to help through the change management process. To know what is happening in the organisation, what budgets we're working with and to be able to scale the team size to be able to competently deal with the demand. At Kingfisher, we also have many opportunities to be part of a variety of different networks. I'm part of the Group Functions People's Forum, representing Group Technology, and I love being able to escalate questions and concerns to senior leadership and represent my peers.

I've worked on some brilliant projects where the benefits realisation has been considerable and achieved all the goals. I've also been able to speak up, be heard and effect positive change in the organisation which has benefited colleagues salaries and benchmarks. But I think I'm most proud of the really high engagement scores my team consistently feedback in our company engagement survey, which tells me how happy they are, how much they enjoy working for Kingfisher, and that they'd recommend working here. The past few years have been a really challenging, and difficult, time for many companies and colleagues; to be able to successfully navigate our way through all those challenges including onboarding new colleagues remotely where they feel part of the team from day 1 is something I will always be really proud of.