Role Title: Transition Manager
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid - 1 day a week in London
Rate: £730 - Umbrella only
Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?
Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.
Key Skills/ requirements
- Practical experience of successfully managing a variety of transition projects using a variety of methodologies, including business change and IT projects, covering the entire project lifecycle. This experience should include a selection of the following:
- Practical experience of working in a project delivery environment, providing leadership and clarity of planned deliverables, and required work packages to project team and key stakeholders.
- Experience of engaging and coordinating delivery directly with strategic partners and suppliers
- Experience in Microsoft office tools including project management software
- Ability to effectively manage and deliver results through others
- A methodical thinker who understands how projects and programmes align to strategic plans
- Essential qualifications: Recognised change and project management practitioner qualification, PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM Practitioner or relevant consolidated change management experience
- Essential technical knowledge: Experience of collaborating effectively with suppliers and other project or programme teams who deliver using agile methodologies (e.g., Lean, Agile, Scrum).
- Experience or working in an 'outsourced business' environment
- Practical experience of delivering projects in the financial services sector
Key Deliverables -
- Planning and managing the delivery of NS&I and Partner activities/ Deliverables
- Reporting updates to the Programme Manager and other governance forums
- Managing the transition project on a day-to-day basis, to the agreed methods and standards
- Be a key decision maker, ensuring successful delivery within the agreed tolerances
- Identify, log, manage and report on assumptions, risks and dependencies
- Ensure project benefits are baselined and reviewed throughout the project lifecycle
- Collaborate with Business Change and Service Transition teams to maintain alignment with the programme objectives and deliverables
- Ensure projects are suitably sunded and budgets baslined, forecast, and maintained
- Project and financials reporting to required business standard
- Conduct and commission, if required expert reviews/analysis of project deliverables
- When required, manage any third-party supplier relationships to ensure deliverables are fully met
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
