Service Transition Manager


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Recruiter

TUI

Listed on

21st February 2018

Location

Luton

Salary/Rate

Competitive

Salary Notes

Competitive

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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At TUI, we never stop looking for new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We are developing and delivering new digital capabilities across our business that will transform our customers’ experience.

In Digital Platforms, we are creating a cross platform, unified Service Management capability to drive seamless delivery of the digital vision as implemented across the portfolio of large scale programmes and projects.

This is a great opportunity to join a team of delivery focused, innovative people dedicated to providing customers with an inspiring, exciting and memorable experience covering TUI’s entire operation; online presence, mobile platforms, retail network, contact centres, aircraft and ships.

What you will be doing

Working with the rest of the Digital Platforms the Service Design and Transition Manager will need to ensure that systems are designed to operable, recoverable, and maintainable by Service Operations; where appropriate, assessing the capabilities of delivery partners and service providers (support teams). Working with the product owners, solution architects, business analysts and service level managers, you will not only be accountable for the upfront service design (service design package) but also to ensure all service management activities have been completed to ensure a smooth implementation into the live service.

Before and after "go live" you will work with the release management team to ensure the software defect position is made clear to stakeholders and warranty obligations of all parties are documented and managed to completion, to ensure service operations are comfortable accepting a service into support.

Where appropriate, you will be responsible for making sure the in service’ OPEX costs are taken into account within the overall project/solution cost and the estimated effort required to transition a services into support are actively monitored and delivered within budget.

What we are looking for

           Be accountable for Service Design and Transition activities for a portfolio of IT services within the business

           Define and be responsible for designing fit for purpose end-to-end service models, aligned to best practice (ITIL & SIAM)

           Ensure service solutions are operable, recoverable and maintainable by service operations and are transitioned into the operational service

           Act as the single point of contact for the projects into operations and coordinate all transition activities

           Help the projects to successfully transition the service by clearly defining the Operations Acceptance Criteria from the start and guiding the projects to meet them

           Protect Operations / Production in ensuring existing services are not impacted adversely by the project releases.

           Ensure early engagement into projects and drive collaboration between different TUI teams and Operations SMEs including third party suppliers

           Work with the IT Release Manager and Change Manager to ensure that transition and implementation plans fit into the overall TUI release calendars

           Negotiate appropriate warranty support arrangements with Projects that is acceptable to Operations.

           Act as Subject Matter Expert for the Service Transition Process, providing support and guidance to projects to achieve successful transition of services into Production

           Build and maintain relationships with Project & Programme Managers, and Service Operations to influence their decisions regarding the approach to the implementation of new/changed services

           Work collaboratively with Architecture to ensure that services are operable and supportable in production

           Work with Product Owners to ensure expectations of service levels are appropriately set and managed with end users

           In conjunction with the Service Manager, review and improve the Service Transition process and associated deliverables

           Quality assure SI Partner’s Service Transition activities and deliverables

           Publish and maintain a Service Transition Readiness Report for each project

           Co-ordinate Design Walkthroughs, Service Readiness dress rehearsals, and Operational Acceptance Criteria

           To be responsible for informing IT Operations of expected SLAs for the solution to ensure the Division’s Service Catalogue is accurately updated

           Present projects at appropriate forums to give a readiness status update, and gain agreement to Go Live from Service Operations stakeholders

           To be accountable for ensuring any and all third party dependences for resolving groups are in place and effective

           In conjunction with Release Management undertake Release assessments to aid optimal delivery of change

           Responsible for Early Life Support management, ensuring entry/exit criteria defined, agreed and met

           Responsible for the Post Implementation Review Process, ensuring lessons learnt are captured as improvement opportunities

SPECIFIC QUALITIES:

           Strong interpersonal skills, ability to negotiate and influence wide range of stakeholders.

           Experience in transitioning large scale projects covering multiple internal teams and vendors, from development into support

           Experience in designing end-to-end service and support models.

           ITIL v3 certified

           Very strong ITIL Service Transition process knowledge and experience

           Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration. Advanced degree preferred.

           Technology experience specifically within knowledge, change and release management.

           Experience within a multi-vendor team structure.

Working within TUI group

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism group. Covering the entire touristic value chain under one roof we employ 63,000 people in over 100 countries and offer 20 million customers comprehensive services in around 180 destinations worldwide.

Help make our customers smile and in return you will receive a competitive salary, pension scheme and further benefits such as generous holiday discounts, great rates with foreign exchange and discounts with retailers.

How to apply

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