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Service Transition Manager
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Service Transition Manager – Contract
Initial 7+ Months
£475-500 per day, Outside IR35
Fully Remote (Must be UK based)
Security Clearance: SC required
Unify is working in partnership with a growing consultancy to support the delivery of a major Central Government programme. We’re looking for an experienced Service Transition Manager to join the team and play a key role in successfully moving services into live operation.
This is an opportunity to work on a high-profile programme, collaborating with technical, operational and business teams to ensure services are ready to launch, operate and deliver value to users.
What we're looking for:
- Proven experience managing service transition into live/BAU environments
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Strong co-design and workshop facilitation skills
- A hearts-and-minds approach to change, with the ability to bring people with you
- Experience mapping processes, understanding user needs and turning insights into improvements
- Experience working across multidisciplinary teams, suppliers and operational teams
- Strong planning, organisation and risk-management skills
- Ability to create clear transition, readiness and operational documentation
- Experience supporting teams through change, adoption and go-live
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You’ll be responsible for:
- Developing and managing transition plans
- Working with teams to assess service and operational readiness
- Facilitating workshops and co-design sessions
- Mapping current and future processes
- Identifying risks, dependencies and gaps ahead of go-live
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders and operational teams
- Supporting successful handover into BAU
- Helping teams understand and adopt new ways of working
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If you’re a collaborative Service Transition Manager who can combine strong delivery skills with excellent stakeholder engagement and a genuine people-focused approach to change, we’d like to hear from you.
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