Cutover Manager / Deployment Lead in City of London, London

Deployment Lead / Cutover Manager
6 months
£600 - 650 p/d INSIDE IR35
Location - remote with possible visits to London

If you are an experienced Business Consultant with a keen eye for detail and a transformation and consulting background, our client can provide an excellent platform to develop your career helping our clients tackle there particular challenges. Continuing our exciting growth plans in 2020 our consultants will focus on client delivery, foresight / innovation and working in collaborative teams to build long-term trusted relationships. Business Consulting is a necessity and an integral part of delivering cutting edge data solutions for our Tier 1 and Public Service clients.

• You will share a passion for problem solving and particularly how the post digital world can meet the business challenges of the future. Data Driven and evidenced based solutions are at the heart of our decision making with likeminded consultants flourishing in our environment.
• Deployment Lead Responsibilities
• Responsible for defining the detail of the sequence of activities needed to cutover end users to the new solution- from when the readiness criteria are complete, through to the end of Early Life Support for both all projects
• Responsible for defining the teams required to deliver the Transition Responsible for defining the entry and exit criteria for Transition Work with the other vendors to clarify the work packages that they can deliver, and how they will build and prove capability prior to rollout.
• Responsible for the creation of detailed plans and cutover materials to support the agreed approach Work with the Technical lead, Change lead and Test Lead to understand the coordinated activities required for both the dress rehearsal and production cutover
• Ensures appropriate communication, preparation and training plans are in place and executed for deployment.
• Participate in final Go/No Go sign off for any new or changed service in line with project requirements
• Provide detailed weekly status reports Identify and manage risks and issues via the RAID log and escalations where required
• Ensure that any changes to the signed off deployment plans are raised through the formal change control process and that all relevant documentation is updated

What you'll need:

Our Business Consultants have a hugely valued skill set and play a significant role in our success, working with business and technical stakeholders on future business strategy, operating model, and service design. Will typically have a major consultancy background demonstrating outstanding core consultancy values assisting our clients in design, delivery and governance of end-to-end business solutions from inception through to successful completion.

Activities will include transformational projects covering business architecture, defining and delivering business change working across multi-dimensional clients, competing priorities and operating models to partner and add the right level of value. For example defining digital strategy and road maps and blending business, technical and commercial approach.

Business Case development is a vital tool for our consultants and is used for extensively for major change initiatives driving benefits realisation and measuring outcomes which has positive ramifications for better customer insight, customer journeys and fundamentally optimising our client's business processes. Analysing and reporting on complex data and customer segmentation information to drive business insight is another key asset, conducting primary and secondary research to support client deliveries, proposition development and thought leadership

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.