About this role
Are you an experienced Cutover Manager or Project Manager who thrives on leading complex technology transformations from planning through to successful go-live? If you enjoy working closely with clients, senior stakeholders and technical teams while bringing structure to high-profile programmes, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
As Cutover Manager, you'll take ownership of the end-to-end planning, coordination and execution of a major technology transformation and go-live. You'll act as the key link between the client, technical delivery teams, suppliers and business stakeholders, ensuring every aspect of the cutover is carefully planned, communicated and delivered. This is a highly visible, client-facing role where your ability to manage complexity, maintain business continuity and provide confidence to senior leaders will be critical to success.
This is a hybrid role, the expectation is to be onsite in Leeds on an ad hoc basis. Depending on the project requirements there may be more frequent office travel at the time so you need to flexible with commute.
What you'll be doing:
- Taking end-to-end accountability for the planning and execution of complex technology cutovers and go-lives.
- Developing and owning the cutover strategy, detailed plans, runbooks, readiness reviews, rehearsals and go-live activities.
- Coordinating technical teams, business stakeholders, suppliers and third parties, ensuring dependencies, milestones, risks and actions are effectively managed.
- Leading deployment simulations, dress rehearsals and contingency planning to ensure business continuity and minimise operational disruption.
- Producing and presenting senior stakeholder and board-level reporting, providing clear visibility of progress, risks, readiness and upcoming activities.
- Supporting data migration, operational readiness and the transition into live service following successful deployment.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience leading end-to-end cutovers and go-lives for complex technology transformation programmes.
- Strong experience developing and managing cutover strategies, deployment plans and detailed runbooks.
- Experience coordinating multiple technical and business workstreams, ensuring dependencies and critical activities are clearly managed.
- Demonstrable experience managing risks, issues, contingency plans and business continuity requirements within high-pressure delivery environments.
- Experience leading and facilitating go-live activities, dress rehearsals and deployment simulations.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to confidently present complex information to senior leadership and boards.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience coordinating activities across Oracle Fusion and Salesforce platforms.
- Knowledge of finance systems and processes, including purchase orders, receipts, supplier management and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations.
- Experience supporting financial data migration programmes.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers and external delivery partners.
- Experience delivering technology transformation programmes where minimal or no downtime was critical.
- Experience working within NHS environments.
Referral Bonus: £1500
If you're interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer.
Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance and accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
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