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We are looking for Transition Lead to join our team, providing best in class transition of new services and onboarding of new customers to PMC’s Managed Services Division. This is a newly created role in the team so you will be expected to work with PMC’s Service Delivery Managers, Service Assurance Manager, Service Desk Managers, Team Leads and other senior staff to understand the needs of each transition, deliver a programme of works that lives to these needs and generate an iterative approach to improving these processes each time they are used. Whilst this is not a line management position at the current time you will be expected to matrix manage the workload of technical resources assigned to your transitions for the appropriate amount of time they are working on that transition in collaboration with their existing line managers. During periods where there is limited transition work to be performed, the Transition Lead will shift their focus to quality assurance for existing live services, working closely alongside various PMC support teams to perform procedural reviews and identify improvement areas. The role reports into our Head of Service Design & Transition.
Job Responsibility:
Project Manage all Managed Service transitions in a repeatable and professional way to ensure successful delivery of the transitioned service(s) ensuring that existing services are not impacted and transitioning services are delivered to a quality that is aligned to PMC’s standards
Ensuring that transitioned services adhere to our company policies and meet the requirements of company accreditations e.g., ISO9001, ISO27001
Ensuring that new or altered services are transitioned in-line with the targeted service design
Work closely with senior staff from PMC and our customers to ensure that clear visibility is given at all times to the progress of all transition activity
Ensure that appropriate internal and external governance is embedded into each transition with minutes, reported to key stakeholders
Develop timely internal and external reporting for each transition appropriate to the audience
Align with technical resources to understand the unique needs of each transition factoring any risks that may emerge in to your planning and reporting
Ensure that information and documentation is made available from our transitioning customer and converted into high quality knowledge articles added into the Service Desk ITSM knowledge base
Manage successful deployment of service releases into supported environments
Plan and manage service changes efficiently and effectively
Manage risks relating to new, changed or retired services
Successfully deploy service releases into supported environments
Set correct expectations on the performance and use of new or changed services
Provide good-quality knowledge and information about transitioned services
Plan and assure the capacity (including resourcing) needed to manage service transitions and deliver the end service
Determining and agreeing go-live, early-life support and service acceptance
Facilitate Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) following every transition with a feedback loop to ensure that learnings are baked into future transitions
Ensuring that the service acceptance criteria is understood and signed off by operational IT teams
During periods of lessened transition activity, perform reviews of the performance of existing services with the aim of identifying procedural and quality improvement areas, working closely alongside the Service Assurance Manager to achieve this
Requirements:
Experience of working within a services function for a Managed Services Provider
Experience in managing simultaneous projects to tight timelines
Experience in a customer facing role
Experience of implementing, and adhering to, Change Management processes
Experience of delivering Continual Service Improvement activities
An understanding of Service and Value that demonstrates that you can see the bigger picture and get the most out of the underlying service
Nice to have:
Experience working with retail customers
ITIL certification
Prince 2 certification or relevant Project management qualifications and experience
Experience in Risk Management, Service Improvement and Stakeholder Management