OpticoreIT
Senior Project Manager

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About Opticore IT
Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.
Job Opportunity
Opticore IT is currently searching for a Senior Project Manager with a background in Broadcast Media and previous experience with Mergers & Acquisitions and Service Transitions. This opportunity is an initial inside IR35 contract based in London up to 2 days a week, with the prospect for extension.
Role Description
The role is for a Senior Project Manager to partner with the CS&D Delivery Manager and lead the delivery and service transition of the clients new Content Supply & Distribution (CS&D) pipeline.
The pipeline will deliver the client studios content to partner. It comprises around 50 systems of varying size, with the platform being delivered by a third party over the next 12 months.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute the transition of the new CS&D platform into live operation, including cut-over management, staying flexible as programme conditions change.
- Establish the processes, governance and ways of working required to run the new service.
- Define and implement the support model, including team structure, roles and service management processes.
- Ensure the operational tooling, monitoring, documentation and runbooks are in place ahead of go-live.
- Coordinate delivery across the client technology teams and third-party suppliers to ensure a seamless end-to-end service.
- Facilitate the definition and establishment of the workstreams required to deliver the separation, ensuring activity aligns with the detailed plans coming out of each.
- Manage cross-workstream dependencies against the overall programme plan.
- Identify and bring in the delivery resources needed to execute the programme.
- Support the build-out of standalone supply chain capability as systems, processes and teams are cloned across into the studios.
- Own change management, governance reporting and resource management across the workstreams in scope, working through the existing Jira-based reporting framework and client delivery model.
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- Senior Project Manager. Facilitator and coordinator by nature, delivering through workstream leads rather than commanding top down. M&A or BPO exposure highly relevant.
- Delivery track record across business applications and shared services (supply chain, finance systems, business services).
- Hands-on experience leading cutover activity, flexible enough to reshape transition planning as programme conditions change.
- Comfortable standing up new workstreams from scratch, mapping and holding cross workstream dependencies, and integrating detailed plans into a single view.
- Senior Project Manager level governance reporting, change control and resource management. Reporting runs through Jira, so familiarity is a plus.
Diversity
At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so, please speak to our recruitment team.
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