Transition and Mobilisation Lead

Central government transformation programme 3 to 6 months, extension likely Hybrid, flexible location Live SC clearance requiredMost large outsourcing programmes are not lost in the design phase. They are lost in the weeks either side of go-live. This role owns those weeks.You will take a major central government programme from contract award to a working service: mobilising incoming suppliers, running transition and cutover, and getting operations to a point where they can be handed to business as usual without the public noticing anything happened.What you will actually doOwn the mobilisation, transition and cutover plans, and hold suppliers to themRun supplier onboarding, readiness testing and assessment, and be willing to say when a supplier is not readyEstablish who is responsible for what across incoming suppliers, outgoing providers and client teams, so nothing falls between themBuild contingency and rollback positions that have been tested rather than assumedGive the programme board an honest readiness assessment ahead of each go/no-go decisionTake the service through stabilisation into BAU against exit criteria agreed in advanceWhat we are looking forSomeone who has done this before rather than planned it. That means a track record of mobilisation or transition on major programmes, through to a live service, and ideally at least one that went wrong and had to be recovered. We are more interested in what you learned from a difficult transition than in a list of clean ..... full job details .....