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Senior Service Design & Transition Manager

FULL TIME ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 3 days ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

You will lead the structured delivery of Service Design and Transition activities for new or changed services across the UK and Ireland. Reporting to the Head of Service Design and Transition, you will ensure operational suitability and a smooth handover into Service Operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the transition of new and modified services into operational use
  • Act as the main ITSM contact for sales teams during client bids
  • Manage stage-gate approvals and present changes at Service Design and Transition Boards
  • Create comprehensive design and transition documentation for operational teams
  • Assess early service performance and capture lessons learned for improvement
  • Identify and manage risks while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least five years of experience in Service Design and Service Transition
  • Proven background working within a large corporate or enterprise environment
  • Experience managing multiple stakeholders across various departments
  • Ability to identify and deliver continual improvement initiatives
  • Strong communication skills to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences

Expected Impact

You will drive the successful integration of new services by ensuring they are commercially ready and operationally supportable. Your oversight of the transition lifecycle and KPI monitoring will enhance service quality and streamline ways of working across the organization.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

Job Description

Reporting to the Head of Service Design & Transition, you will lead the structured delivery of Service Design and Transition activities for new or changed services across the UK&I. You will ensure supportability, commercial readiness, operational suitability, and a smooth handover into Service Operations.

What you'll do:

  • Ensure new and modified services meet business needs and transition them successfully into operational use.
  • Be main ITSM contact for sales teams during client bids, coordinating commercial service design inputs.
  • Manage stage‑gate approvals and present changes at relevant Service Design & Transition Boards.
  • Create all Design & Transition documentation to ensure operational teams are ready and informed.
  • Assess early service performance in ELS/production and capture improvements and lessons learned.
  • Work with architecture, strategy, and operations teams to validate designs, transition plans, and service readiness.
  • Identify and manage risks, escalating to ITSM and Risk teams.
  • Ensure compliance with Experian policies and regulatory requirements (security, data compliance, FCA).
  • Support a world‑class customer experience throughout the contracting, design, and transition phases.
  • Follow Experian best practices, considering tools, third parties, performance targets, and service measures.
  • Maintain documentation and evidence of discussions, approvals, and decisions.
  • Monitor KPIs across the Service Design & Transition lifecycle, driving improvements and Service level agreement alignment.
  • Promote processes and identify opportunities to streamline ways of working.

Qualifications

What you'll bring:

  • 5+ years experience in Service Design and Service Transition within a large corporate or enterprise environment.
  • Experience of working with multiple stakeholders across multiple teams or departments
  • Experience identifying and delivering continual improvement initiatives
  • Experience communicating with technical teams and describe technical issues to non-technical people at all levels of seniority

Additional Information

What you will get:

  • Personal Development - career pathway for professional growth supported by learning and development programs and unlimited access to online educational training courses, learning materials & books.
  • Work environment - excellent work conditions with friendly environment, recognized strong team spirit, and fun and quality recreation time.
  • Social benefit package including life insurance, food vouchers, additional health insurance, monthly flex allowance and internet coverage, corporate discounts, marriage and childbirth / adoption allowance, Multisport card, Sharesave plan, Employee assistance program, а birthday gift and many other benefits!
  • Work-life balance - 25 days paid vacation, 1 additional day off for your birthday and extra 3 paid days for participation in Social responsibility event.
  • Opportunity for Flexible working hours and Home Office.

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