Business Readiness Lead

DB Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DB Recruitment seeks an experienced Business Readiness Lead to join a large-scale transformation programme in Dublin. The role focuses on owning the end-to-end readiness journey across multiple sites, guiding remediation and evidence requirements to achieve operational acceptance.

You will coordinate across technical, operations and regional teams to establish a consistent delivery rhythm, governance and visibility of site status.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading business or operational readiness activities within a large-scale transformation programme.
• Experience managing readiness across multiple sites, locations or business units.
• Strong understanding of readiness frameworks, stage gates, remediation and operational acceptance.
• Experience developing and managing readiness checklists, evidence packs and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to coordinate technical, operational and business stakeholders.
• Experience establishing delivery governance, reporting rhythms and clear status tracking.
• Strong understanding of dependencies, risks, issues and blockers and the ability to drive resolution.
• Experience managing change controls and documenting deviations from an approved target state.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to bring structure to complex programmes.
• A proactive, delivery-focused approach with the confidence to challenge, escalation and drive actions through to completion.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end site readiness journey, from initial assessment through to operational acceptance.
• Establish the activities, milestones and readiness gates required to progress each site through remediation.
• Develop standardised readiness checklists, including clear evidence requirements for each stage.
• Support the programme in determining initial site prioritisation and sequencing, taking dependencies into account.
• Coordinate dependencies across technical teams, operations, regional stakeholders and wider project resources.
• Establish a weekly delivery and readiness rhythm, providing clear reporting on site status, risks, dependencies and blockers.
• Track sites through the readiness lifecycle, identifying those that are on track, delayed or blocked and driving appropriate actions.
• Implement and embed interim change controls, ensuring there is a clear record of current state, target state, changes, evidence, deviations and approvals.
• Coordinate the readiness evidence required to support operational acceptance and ROM sign-off.
• Work closely with delivery teams during implementation to keep readiness requirements aligned with programme activity.
• Capture lessons learned and continually refine the readiness approach.
• Provide visibility to programme leadership on overall readiness progress, risks and dependencies.

Skills

Business Readiness

Operational Readiness

Transformation Programme Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Contract: Initial contract engagement with potential for extension

Working Model: Hybrid

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Business Readiness Lead to join a large-scale transformation programme in Dublin.

The Business Readiness Lead will take ownership of the end-to-end readiness journey across multiple sites, ensuring each location progresses through the required remediation activities, readiness gates and evidence requirements to achieve operational acceptance.

This is a delivery-focused role requiring strong coordination across technical teams, operations, regional stakeholders and project resources, with the ability to bring structure, governance and momentum to a complex programme.

You will establish the readiness framework, introduce a consistent delivery rhythm and provide clear visibility of which sites are on track, delayed or blocked.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end site readiness journey, from initial assessment through to operational acceptance.
• Establish the activities, milestones and readiness gates required to progress each site through remediation.
• Develop standardised readiness checklists, including clear evidence requirements for each stage.
• Support the programme in determining initial site prioritisation and sequencing, taking dependencies and delivery constraints into account.
• Coordinate dependencies across technical teams, operations, regional stakeholders and wider project resources.
• Establish a weekly delivery and readiness rhythm, providing clear reporting on site status, risks, dependencies and blockers.
• Track sites through the readiness lifecycle, identifying those that are on track, delayed or blocked and driving appropriate actions.
• Implement and embed interim change controls, ensuring there is a clear record of:
• Current state
• Approved target state
• What has changed
• Supporting evidence
• Deviations
• Rationale
• Required approvals
• Coordinate the readiness evidence required to support operational acceptance.
• Drive sites through to ROM sign-off, ensuring outstanding actions and evidence are appropriately managed.
• Work closely with delivery teams during implementation and remediation phases to ensure readiness requirements remain aligned with programme activity.
• Capture lessons learned throughout delivery and continuously refine and improve the readiness approach.
• Provide clear visibility to programme leadership on overall readiness progress, key risks, dependencies and areas requiring escalation.

Key Experience

We're looking for someone with strong experience in Business Readiness, Operational Readiness, Transformation or Programme Delivery, ideally within a complex, multi-site environment.

You should have:

• Proven experience leading business or operational readiness activities within a large-scale transformation programme.
• Experience managing readiness across multiple sites, locations, business units or operational areas.
• Strong understanding of readiness frameworks, stage gates, remediation and operational acceptance.
• Experience developing and managing readiness checklists, evidence packs and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate technical, operational and business stakeholders.
• Experience establishing delivery governance, reporting rhythms and clear status tracking.
• Strong understanding of dependencies, risks, issues and blockers and the ability to drive resolution.
• Experience managing change controls and documenting deviations from an approved target state.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to bring structure to complex programmes.
• A proactive, delivery-focused approach with the confidence to challenge, escalation and drive actions through to completion.

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