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Our team is looking for a motivated and experienced IT Transition PM in Athens to support our client on a European institution project. As an IT Service Transition Manager, you will play a key role in leading the controlled, compliant, and low-risk transition of services into and out of the client’s delivery model. You will coordinate complex transition activities across multiple stakeholders, ensuring operational continuity, service readiness, and successful knowledge transfer without disruption to business operations. You will work closely with internal teams, suppliers, incumbent providers, and client stakeholders to ensure services are transitioned efficiently, transparently, and in line with governance and operational requirements.
Job Responsibility:
Lead end-to-end service transition activities, including transition planning, mobilization, onboarding, operational readiness, and service handover
Own and maintain the Transition Plan, including scope, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, assumptions, resource planning, and acceptance criteria
Establish and manage transition governance, including reporting cadence, stakeholder reviews, escalation management, workshops, checkpoints, and decision forums
Coordinate transition-in and transition-out activities across multiple teams, suppliers, and stakeholders in complex multi-vendor environments
Ensure operational readiness through validation of processes, tooling, support models, SLAs, KPIs, reporting mechanisms, and service acceptance criteria
Drive knowledge transfer activities, including documentation quality assurance, runbooks, inventories, shadowing/reverse-shadowing sessions, and formal sign-offs
Identify and manage transition risks, issues, dependencies, and change impacts, ensuring mitigation plans are implemented and tracked
Support service stabilization and hypercare activities following go-live or handover phases
Ensure compliance with governance, security, contractual, and operational requirements throughout the transition lifecycle
Requirements:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
8-10 years of experience managing complex IT service transitions, mobilizations, or transformation programs within large enterprise, regulated, or governance-driven environments
Strong experience in transition-in, transition-out, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer management
Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, suppliers, incumbent providers, and cross-functional teams in international or multi-vendor environments
Solid understanding of IT service management principles, operational governance, and managed services delivery models
Strong capability in risk, issue, dependency, compliance, and change management
Experience defining and managing transition governance structures, reporting mechanisms, and service acceptance processes
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and organizational skills
Relevant certifications or methodologies such as PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, and/or ITIL are highly valued
Experience working within international organizations is considered a strong advantage
Fluent in English (written and spoken)
What we offer:
Health insurance for the employee and one dependent family member (100% paid by NTT DATA)
Meal vouchers of 120€ per month (x12)
Corporate mobile phone: subscription & device
Teleworking equipment allowance
Udemy Account
Access to Open Up mental health service
28 days of paid annual leave consisting of your legal holidays and compensation days
Hybrid working model
Flexible working hours
Casual clothing
Training path and access to learning opportunities
Yearly performance reviews
Mentorship program
Talent Friends referral bonus
Access to a platform with certified psychologists & mental health workshops