Service Transition Manager

Experis; Knutsford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consultancy is seeking a Service Transition Manager for a hybrid position based in Knutsford. The role involves overseeing service changes throughout their lifecycle, ensuring effective coordination among project teams and service managers. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in an IT service environment, with strong skills in change delivery and stakeholder management. ITIL knowledge is essential and qualifications in related fields are preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of working in an IT service environment.
• Deep understanding of change delivery methods.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure impact of developmental changes is considered.
• Facilitate transition of service changes.
• Gather and articulate service requirements.

Skills

IT service management

Change delivery

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Tools

ServiceNow

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Role Title: Service Transition Manager

Location: Knutsford, Hybrid, 2-3 day onsite

Duration: Until 29 April 2026

Rate: £500 per day - PAYE via Umbrella Only

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that the impact of every element of the life cycle of developmental change is considered, from the time a project is confirmed to its eventual deployment, involving coordination of the processes of operational level acceptance, transition planning, support requirements definition, configuration and change management, performance and risk evaluation, test management, release, deployment, early life support and release review.
• Facilitate the transition of all aspects of service change deriving from a programme of projects, from the stage where a project is owned fully by a project team, through transition, to service management, where business-as-usual support services are delivered by the support groups.
• Work closely with the projects teams, service owner and service delivery manager, the first line and second line support managers and SME teams, change management and the infrastructure teams.
• Responsible for gathering and articulate service requirements.
• Review and validate project deliverables, ensuring they meet the minimum quality standards for service operations and are robust when they fall short.
• Champion agile ways of working, growing and promoting IT service management best practices.
• Ensure alignment to Application and Security control standards whilst working closely with engineering to maintain documentation including documenting & publishing fixes in a central knowledge base.

Technical Skills & Competencies

• 5+ years of working in an IT service environment within a complex and diverse organisation.
• Deep understanding and experience in change delivery adopting different delivery methods (e.g. Waterfall, Agile).
• Technical background - able to understand various architecture solutions (Cloud, SaaS, on-premise).
• Experience developing support models for new services, establishing clear roles and responsibilities, and able to negotiate with stakeholders to gain acceptance of those models.
• Strong understanding of ITIL Incident, Change & Release management and service continuity processes.
• Strong analytical skills with data driven approach and ability to grasp technical design.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable presenting to large/senior audiences.
• Ability to train team members and stakeholders and pass on best practice procedures in IT service management.
• Ability to develop presentation and influencing skills and be capable of making the case for and achieving effective service transition deliverables in project environments where delivery timescales may be inflexible.
• Experience of Service Acceptance Criteria.
• Structured thinker, able to develop and implement new processes and operate in areas of ambiguity.
• Ability to work across and manage a large number of stakeholders.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
• Customer and relationship focused, process driven, metric focused, results oriented, organised, and self-directed.

Desirable

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Previous experience/ track record of working in Financial Services Industry.
• ITIL Certification and ITIL Service Transition-certified.
• DevOps and ServiceNow experience.
• Self-starter, capable of working independently.
• Experienced in the use of the Microsoft Office toolset.
• Collaboration with outsourced and / or external development partners.
• Understanding of scalable architecture patterns and client / backend systems design.
• An appreciation of project and programme governance activities required in a large regulated financial services firm.