Service Transition Programme Manager in London

This critical new role sits within the Transition and Transformation (T&T) team, a core part of Group Managed Services (GMS). Reporting into the Portfolio Managers in Maximiliane Lawrence Programme Practice, we have Programme Manager vacancies in core countries.

As a Programme Manager (German speaking) you will be responsible for the successful outcome and delivery of Managed Services transitions and transformations (to agreed quality, time, and budget constraints). The Programme Managers often need to collaborate strongly with the Customer Exec roles where the deal is of significant scale or complexity, ensuring that their T&T Practice resource requirements and business outcomes are achieved.

What you'll do

• Your overall responsibility is for the successful outcome for the large/complex project or programme you are asked to lead; your responsibilities will be defined in the project control documentation and your Terms of reference.
• These will be delivered alongside the agreed financial outcome of the programme you lead.
• In support of this, you're expected to broadly understand both what Computacenter sells and delivers and have a working knowledge of the technology/solution.
• You'll be responsible for delivering your assignments in accordance with the Group Service Take-on.
• Receive handover from Deal Acceptance.
• Handover from the Sales Teams (Solution/Service designer min).
• Kick-off meetings with client & Internal ISP's.
• Plan and manage Post Contract Verification with client.
• Establish governance framework – Transition Board etc.
• Own Delivery of transition service, ensuring the dependencies between ISPs are understood and proactively managed.
• Engage with client and stakeholder representatives.
• Ensure client dependencies are accepted by client and delivery is prompted.
• Management of Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
• Deliver Transition using the Group Service Take-On Framework.
• Manage the transition budget, ensuring that monthly finance reports are completed, with revised forecasts to completion, with any variance to forecast being flagged and appropriate actions taken to ensure that the project remains on or under budget.
• Completion of weekly project reports.
• Ensure products are delivered and signed off.
• Manage Service Readiness and Cutover.
• Prepare Checkpoint 6 & Service Handover with Service Management representative.
• Have a working knowledge of the Internal Service Providers and what services they provide in support of any project you are managing/delivering.
• Identify key lessons learned from delivered projects, share these with the rest of the GST Team and more widely in CC, and apply these to future projects.

What you'll bring

• Fluent German is a must.
• Trained in Prince2, to Foundation level and working towards a Practitioner qualification or equivalent.
• A demonstrable track record of delivering successful project outcomes end-to-end.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships, reduce conflict and step up to lead when required.
• Aware of the need to be Emotionally Intelligent, to adapt personal style and approach to meet specific customer needs.
• Be able to understand the Business outputs required from your assignment or the project you are leading.
• Skilled user of Microsoft applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Project, and other relevant tools.
• Good literacy and numeracy skills.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Consulting, Project Management, and General Business

Industries: Information Technology & Services, Computer Hardware Manufacturing, and Information Services