IT Readiness Lead


Details:
  • Salary: £650 - 750 - Day
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Job Status: Full-Time
  • Salary Per: Day
  • Location: London
  • Date: 2 days ago
Description:

Role: IT Business Readiness Lead

Location: London (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Months

Day rate: £650 - £750 Inside IR35

Experience required:

Leads IT readiness delivery for large-scale, complex change initiatives.
Defines and implements IT readiness approaches appropriate to delivery models, scale, and complexity, ensuring change is delivered within organisational risk appetite and enables benefits realisation.
Possesses the expertise to lead all aspects of IT readiness, from early engagement through transition to BAU.
Establishes and operates effective IT readiness governance and control frameworks to ensure change is delivered within agreed readiness risk thresholds.
Accountable for creating and maintaining forums, interactions, and engagement models with IT communities to ensure timely involvement in change activity and effective support throughout the change lifecycle.
Works in partnership with IT change representatives to establish clear IT ownership through readiness activities, Path to Live controls, and BAU transition processes.
Partners with IT senior leadership to support them in leading change within their areas, enabling them to take their teams through a structured and effective change journey.
Identifies and manages dependencies with other related change initiatives, seeking opportunities for delivery alignment and efficiencies at scale.
Influences delivery leads to ensure effective end-to-end change delivery outcomes.
Designs and delivers change communications that clearly articulate the rationale for change, tailored to the perspectives and needs of impacted audiences.
Produces and manages consolidated IT readiness reporting, providing clear, regular progress updates and insights.

Role Key Accountabilities:

Accountable for the day-to-day management of end-to-end IT Readiness for all TRBK programme deliveries.
Define and implement an effective IT Readiness approach for the full lifecycle of the TRBK programme, aligned to NBS change framework controls.
Own IT Readiness governance, including planning, status reporting, escalation management, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, cost management, and change control decisions.
Support and coach colleagues impacted by change, guiding them through the change journey and ensuring successful adoption.
Act as a key interface between the TRBK programme and IT teams/users, ensuring readiness activities are planned, tailored, and completed to enable implementation, benefit realisation, and sustainable change.
Lead the execution of stakeholder management, impact assessments, IT Readiness activities, colleague engagement, contingency planning, implementation, implementation support, and transition to BAU.
Partner with IT change representatives to establish clear IT ownership through readiness activities, Path to Live controls, and BAU transition.
Collaborate with IT senior leadership, supporting them in leading change within their areas and enabling their teams through a structured and effective change journey.
Ensure IT Readiness is delivered within NBS risk appetite by defining readiness criteria for TRBK technology changes and establishing appropriate Go / No-Go (GNG) decision forumsIf you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website

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