Transition Manager

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

• Responsible for managing large scale, complex or specialist transition and transformation projects, or the major streams or towers in a very large programme.  Also responsible for providing defined deliverables to specification, within agreed cost and timescales, meeting the necessary quality standards.
• Responsible for the on-boarding of a new customer/service including any service take on, contract novation, TUPE.  Also responsible for complex stakeholder management and expectation setting, controls of budgets, resourcing, staff development/management and defining service acceptance criteria.
• Working within the agreed revenue and expense budget targets, you will optimise the effective use of all allocated resources and thereby ensure cost effective services to the customer and maximise profitability to SCC.
• Drive the Continual Service Improvement of the Transition Management processes working across strategic functions to drive consistency and leverage new ways of working.
• Maintain and build professional relationships, while also having effective communication with all parties involved in the project, ensuring expectations and acceptance criteria are agreed upfront and continually managed throughout the engagement.
• Manage the service exit transition requirements of end of contract customers.
• Provide regular progress reporting to Portfolio and Project Lead regarding progress of transitions, call out any RAID observations and manage these through to closure.
• Overall responsibility of the P&L of the engagement; ensure budgetary information is accurate, change controls are raised in a timely fashion and any financial risks are raised as soon as they are realised.
• Assesses and prioritises stakeholder’s requirements and manage their expectations.
• Manages financial P&L performance (cost and margin) on a project.
• Understands and presents information contained within financial reports and adjusts project Accordingly.
• Is responsible for ensuring risks are being actively managed in risk register and challenges on risk mitigation plans.
• Updates the project plan upon reflection of risks and issues.
• Updates the project schedule upon reflection of updated project plan, risks, and issues.
• Efficiently escalates engagement issues that enables effective mitigation plans.
• Deliver clear and concise stakeholder management, internal and customer facing, including Project Board creation, liaising with other key SCC service providers and 3rd party organisations.

• Demonstrates a high level of competence in IT (Information Technology), or related industry, with proven skills in delivering all aspects of complex engagements, on-time, to budget, and to quality. 
• Ability to forecast project budgets and deliver against forecast with clear communication and escalation where budget will be breached.
• Strong ability to run several simultaneous complex engagements in a fast-paced environment to a successful completion.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to present confidently in several different internal and client situations.
• Strong internal and external stakeholder management.
• Demonstrates team leadership to the project team, lead, manage, and mentor project team to ensure effective and efficient operation of IT project delivery.
• Strong relationship building, communications and management skills both with internal and external stakeholders.
• Must be able to obtain the Government and/or Police Security levels required in order to meet the operational requirements of the role (no caveats) and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users. Able to articulate clearly to all project stakeholders.
• Report writing skills need to be high; able to demonstrate the proper use of grammar, eloquent writing skills, and show a well thought through report that has a logical flow, is accurate, contains the relevant data, is focused, and is easy to read.
• Organised and structured approach to project documentation and project artefacts.
• Able to extract key information and formulate a planned method of service or project delivery, with a strong attention to detail and quality.
• Exposure to a managed services environment such as (but not limited to); Hardware Support Services, Service Desk Services, Procurement.