Transition Manager

PwC; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Training & certification support

Medical and wellbeing program

Coaching and mindfulness support

Volunteer time off (3 hours/month)

Birthday day off

Customizable benefits package

Job summary

PwC Poland is seeking a seasoned professional to lead end-to-end transitions for AES Managed Services. You will define scope, plans and readiness criteria, onboard clients into the AES/MSO model, and mobilize delivery teams including recruitment and training.

You will coordinate knowledge transfer and governance, ensuring readiness before go-live and stabilisation post go-live. Role requires strong project management, stakeholder handling, and experience managing risks and dependencies across

Qualifications

• Experience leading service transitions or outsourcing transitions.
• Experience coordinating client onboarding and activation of services.
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations.
• Understanding of Managed Services operating models.
• Strong planning, organization, communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate end-to-end transition lifecycle for AES Managed Services.
• Define and manage transition scope, plans, milestones, risks and readiness criteria.
• Lead client onboarding into AES and MSO operating model.
• Mobilize delivery organization including recruitment, staffing, training, and access provisioning.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer among teams, clients and providers.
• Establish transition governance, reporting, escalation paths and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure operational readiness before go-live and smooth service stabilization post go-live.
• Capture lessons learned and drive improvements to templates and practices.

Skills

Transition leadership

Client onboarding

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Risk & issue management

Managed Services knowledge

Planning & organization

Education

Experience in service transitions

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Description & Summary

The Application Evolution Services team is a part of PwC Poland. Our work requires constant monitoring of the operation of applications and real-time response. We also improve existing products and introduce new functionalities, so that applications can advance in parallel with our clients’ growth. We repair, keep our fingers on the pulse, create CR, document, and sometimes teach our clients’ employees. The better we work, the less you notice us. Plus, we simply love what we do. We deploy the most innovative Customer Experience solutions for our clients.

Your Future Role:

Lead and coordinate the end-to-end transition lifecycle for new AES Managed Services engagements, Define and manage transition scope, plans, milestones, dependencies, risks and readiness criteria, Lead client and service onboarding into the AES and MSO operating model, Mobilize the required delivery organization by triggering and coordinating MSO processes, including recruitment, staffing, team onboarding, training, and access provisioning, Plan and coordinate knowledge transfer between implementation teams, clients, incumbent providers and Managed Services teams, Coordinate Shadow, Reverse Shadow, service rehearsal and Hypercare activities, as applicable to the agreed transition approach, Establish transition governance, including roles and responsibilities, reporting routines, decision forums, escalation paths, and stakeholder communication, Ensure operational readiness before go-live, including required people, processes, tools, accesses, documentation, runbooks and support procedures, Facilitate readiness reviews, quality gates and transition sign-off based on agreed acceptance criteria, Monitor and manage transition risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and open decisions, ensuring timely escalation and resolution, Coordinate cross-functional and cross-territory stakeholders, including client teams, AES, MSO, Service Delivery Managers, delivery centers and external providers, Support service stabilisation after go-live and manage the structured handover to the Service Delivery Manager and business-as-usual operations, Capture lessons learned and provide structured feedback to support the improvements of AES and MSO transition templates, checklists and practices.

Apply if you have:

Experience leading service transitions, outsourcing transitions or Managed Services implementations, Experience managing client onboarding and operational service activation, Experience coordinating knowledge transfer, service setup and operational readiness activities, Strong project and stakeholder management skills, Experience coordinating cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations, Understanding of Managed Services operating models, Strong planning, organization, communication skills and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have:

Understanding of ITIL or comparable service management frameworks, ITIL Foundation certification, Experience with ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms, Experience in AMS, AES or Technology Managed Services environments, Knowledge of German.

By joining us you gain:

Work flexibility – hybrid working model (min. 2 days in the office per week), flexible start of the day, workation, sabbatical leave, Development and upskilling - our full support during onboarding process, mentoring from experienced colleagues, training sessions, workshops, certification co/financed by PwC e.g. Data Engineering learning paths with MS Azure or Databricks and conversations with native speaker, Wide medical and well-being program - a medical care package (incl. physiotherapy, discounts on dental care), coaching, mindfulness sessions, psychological support, education through dedicated webinars and workshops, financial and legal advice, Possibility to create your individual benefits package (a.o. lunch pass, insurance packages, concierge, veterinary package for a pet, massages) and access to a cafeteria - vouchers, discounts on IT equipment and car purchase, 3 paid hours for volunteering per month, Additional paid Birthday Day off, And when you start enjoying PwC as much as we do, you may recommend your friend to work with us.

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