Deployment Manager

The Deployment Manager will support the successful delivery of cutover and deployment activities across the Unity Programme. Working with the Technical Delivery Partner, programme teams and stakeholders, this role will create, maintain and coordinate the delivery of fully integrated deployment plans, ensuring that dependencies between technical, data, change and operational activities are visible and owned, and that risks to a successful go live are effectively managed.

Person specification

Key accountabilities

Create, maintain, and coordinate the delivery of integrated deployment plans.

Work with programme teams, stakeholders, and delivery partners to ensure deployment activities are planned, scheduled, and tracked.

Monitor and manage risks, issues, actions, and dependencies, escalating where appropriate.

Enable timely delivery of dress rehearsals and preparations for cutover.

Assist with go-live planning, hyper-care mobilisation and transition into business-as-usual support.

Work with Readiness Leads and stakeholders to ensure local readiness activities are completed and evidenced.

Work with Readiness Leads to ensure preparations for programme and project governance are completed, including supporting the production of readiness reporting, deployment metrics and governance materials.

Support effective communications and engagement planning.

Provide leadership and coordination during deployment and cutover periods.

Knowledge

Practitioner knowledge of deployment, cutover, service transition and operational readiness principles and activities.

Working knowledge of HR, payroll, finance or procurement processes as a service.

Experience

Practitioner level experience of supporting effective deployment, cutover, readiness or service transition activities within a complex programme.

Practitioner level experience of creating, maintaining and coordinating complex delivery plans, managing risks, issues and dependencies.

Working level experience of working with delivery partners and leading multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Practitioner level risk, issue and dependency management skills.

Practitioner level stakeholder engagement and communications skills.

Essential criteria

Practitioner level experience of supporting effective deployment, cutover, readiness or service transition activities within a complex programme.

Practitioner level experience of creating, maintaining and coordinating complex delivery plans, managing risks, issues and dependencies.

Working level experience of working with delivery partners and leading multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable criteria

PRINCE2 Practitioner/Agile Project Management Practitioner/APM Registered Project Professional/Project Leadership.