Service Transition Lead (Unity Programme) - Glasgow Regional Centre - Atlantic Square

Service Transition Lead (Unity Programme) - Glasgow Regional Centre - Atlantic Square

About the job

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This is a fantastic opportunity to join the major cross government Unity Programme which will bring together Shared Services for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Department for Transport (DFT) and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

The programme aims to deliver the tools in Human Resources (HR), Recruitment, Talent & Learning, Finance, Payroll, and Procurement to enable users to complete administration tasks, quickly and with minimal effort by modernising our IT Platform, bringing together our shared services teams, standardising our data and cutting through processes that cost our departments time and money.

As Service Transition Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring that programme deliverables are successfully transitioned into operational service. You will provide leadership to ensure controlled transition of Unity services from programme delivery into live operational service, ensuring continuity of critical business functions, minimal disruption to users and clear accountability across the cluster, suppliers and service owners.

Working across business, operational and technical teams, you will provide strategic leadership for service readiness, operational acceptance and service mobilisation activities. Working closely with Business Readiness and Technical Cutover teams.

You will lead relationships across Unity Business Services (UBS), Unity Technology Services (UTS), Programme Delivery Teams, Cluster Departments and external partners to ensure new services are deployed safely, effectively and with minimal disruption to colleagues and customers.

This is a highly visible leadership role requiring strong stakeholder engagement, strategic thinking and the ability to influence at senior levels across multiple organisations.

Job description

As Service Transition Lead you will:

• Develop and lead the Unity Service Transition Strategy, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and wider Government Shared Services ambitions.
• Establish and maintain service transition plans, transition governance, assurance frameworks and readiness criteria.
• Lead service and operational readiness and service acceptance activities across multiple programme releases.
• Provide assurance on plans to assure effective technical cutover planning, deployment coordination and transition into live service.
• Act as the senior escalation point for service transition risks, issues and dependencies. Work collaboratively with Programme, UBS and UTS leadership teams to ensure operational services are sustainable from day one.
• Oversee knowledge transfer, support model development and training readiness and operational handover activities.
• Provide regular transition reporting and recommendations to Programme Boards, Senior Leadership Teams and governance forums.
• Drive continuous improvement activities during stabilisation and early life support phases.
• Build and lead high-performing, multidisciplinary teams, creating an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration and accountability.
• Ensure services are designed and transitioned in line with user-centred and customer-focused principles.

Person specification

We are looking for a confident and experienced leader who can operate effectively in a complex, fast-paced and evolving environment.

You will have experience of delivering Large-Scale IT Transformation Delivery integrating Insight, Governance and Service Improvement and have worked in development and delivery of a SAP S/4HANA instance.

You will have significant business AND technology transformation experience and be comfortable working across organisational boundaries to deliver successful outcomes.

You will demonstrate:

• A successful track record of transitioning services into a live / production environment.
• Strong strategic leadership skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience of leading service transition, operational readiness, implementation and mobilisation activities within complex transformation environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including engagement with Directors, Senior Responsible Owners and external partners.
• Strong programme and risk management capability.
• An understanding of SAP S/4HANA and have the ability to translate complex technical and operational requirements into practical delivery plans.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering outcomes through others. Sound judgement and decision-making skills in ambiguous environments.

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Significant experience leading service transition, operational readiness or large-scale implementation activity.
• Proven ability to lead complex transformation programmes involving multiple stakeholders and delivery partners.
• Experience of managing organisational readiness, business readiness and service acceptance activities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including experience working with senior leaders.
• Strong governance, risk management and assurance experience.
• Demonstrable experience delivering results in complex and ambiguous environments. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Business and Technical experience and should have taken projects live (Service Transition).

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of ERP transformation programmes - specifically SAP S/4HANA.
• Business transformation AND technology delivery experience.
• Knowledge of Shared Services operating models.
• Experience of Major Projects or large public sector transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of Service Management principles.
• Experience within HR, Payroll, Finance or Procurement transformation environments.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 71,725, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 20,778 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: - Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example - 'Please re-open my application - (insert vacancy ref) vacancy closing date (insert date)'.

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.

Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly.

Sponsorship

We have assessed this role against both Home Office and HMRC criteria and we are unable to offer sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. This means the vacancy is not open to applicants who require visa sponsorship.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Hybrid working at HMRC

HMRC is an office-based organisation, and colleagues are expected to spend 60% of their working time in the office. Our offices provide opportunity for interaction, collaboration which aids learning and development and a sense of community. Where the role allows it, and where the home environment is suitable, colleagues can work from home for up to 2 days a week, averaged over a calendar month (or a proportionate amount of time for colleagues who work less than full time).

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment team via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the "Assistance required" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Terms and Conditions

Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.

HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.

Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.

Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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