Lead Service Transition Manger

UK Home Office; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Service Transition Manager to oversee the operational readiness of IT services. This role involves ensuring that new services are compliant and resilient, while also fostering strong relationships with project teams and stakeholders. You'll be at the forefront of driving continual improvement and aligning processes to deliver high-performing services. If you're passionate about IT service management and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Benefits

28.97% Employer Pension Contribution

25 Days Annual Leave

Flexible Working Options

Training and Development Opportunities

Access to Funded Qualifications

Enhanced Parental Leave Schemes

Annual Performance-Based Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and managing service changes.
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and structured transition of projects to live service.
• Drive work forward to meet delivery deadlines.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Leadership Skills

Problem Solving

Service Transition Management

Documentation Skills

Education

Experience in IT Transition

Knowledge of ServiceNow ITSM

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

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Location: Cardiff (Hybrid with 60% office attendance)

Salary: £60,300 Plus Recruitment and retention allowance of up to £11,300 for candidates with exceptional skills and experience

Advert Close: 15th May

As Lead Service Transition Manger and part of the Service Transition team, you’ll ensure new or updated IT services are operationally ready—resourced, resilient, standards-compliant, and future-proof. You’ll bring structure and assurance to service implementation, acting as the key link between delivery teams and live operations.

With strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, you’ll drive continual improvement, define transition standards, and coach junior team members. Your focus will be on aligning people, processes, and tools to deliver seamless, high-performing services.

Responsibilities:

• Enable the process to transition projects to live service in a safe and structured manner, engaging with project teams and Enterprise Services teams to ensure a standard set of transition gateways are met and that a consistent set of Service Operations requirements are incorporated into service designs.
• Ensure and assure that the required people, processes, suppliers and tools are in place to accept new services.
• Drive work forward to meet delivery deadlines, without compromising quality of delivered service.
• Make recommendations on rollout approaches, acceptance planning, handover requirements, quality assurance activities and early-life support.
• Work collaboratively by establishing and maintaining strong relationships with project teams, Service Management and third-party suppliers to solve problems and overcome obstacles.
• Drive the transition process, including prioritisation, risk management and dependency activities to ensure effective transition.
• Onboard the new service on to the Home Office ServiceNow ITSM tooling working effectively with project teams, the Service Architect, support teams, technical teams and commercial teams to ensure that all parties have a thorough understanding of the service that they are providing or consuming.

As a Lead Service Transition Manager you will have experience of:

• Designing and managing changes to service and creating associated documentation.
• Producing high quality deliverables in a variety of contexts / environments.
• Applying a structured and methodical approach to problem solving.
• Applying a breadth of knowledge of technical skills and applications.
• Effectively communicating and setting expectations, with stakeholders, both internal and external to your direct team and the Home Office.
• Designing, owning and maintaining the process and procedures and proactive development of service transition and acceptance documentation.
• Working in enterprise scale IT transition teams and adhering to industry best practice.
• A highly competitive pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• 25 days annual leave on appointment rising 1 day per year up to 30 days, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that is right for you including; Full time, part-time, flexi time, compressed hours and job sharing.
• A hybrid working model of a minimum 60% of your contracted hours in the workplace and 40% remote.
• Training and development opportunities tailored to your role, including access to technical and professional accreditation.
• Access to funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• A capability allowance reviewed annually.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• Enhanced parental leave schemes.
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards.

Please note that this role requires Security Clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. Candidates must also hold or be prepared to undergo NPPV3 clearance.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Government Administration

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