Transition/Cut-Over Manager

Thinkly was founded in 2018 by Angela Goodsir. Thinkly assists businesses with strategies for business scalability and growth, digital transformation and large-scale technology and operations transformation initiatives. Our expertise is in providing strategic business consultancy primarily in the operations, technology and program management space. We offer services and capabilities that span strategy through to execution including project and program management. We are passionate about bringing agility to project management and about transforming businesses and driving change.

We are looking to expand and are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic team member to join our small team.

Angela Goodsir is an enterprise wide executive with a proven track record in transformative industry and business change with a deep understanding of strategic and commercial drivers. She has delivered several large and complex business technology transformations in the Australian media sector.

Angela is an experienced CTO and in 2018 was recognised as one of Australia’s Top 50 CIO’s. She is a well-respected media technologist, operations executive and thought leader. Angela is an Approved Advisor with the Advisory Board Centre and consults to business in strategic advisory, business model development, business scalability, business transformation and re-engineering.

Her experience has seen her lead large teams to manage digital disruption and operational complexity through harnessing and leveraging technology to drive business strategy and relentless innovation. Angela has demonstrated leadership capability, a broad strategic mindset, resilience, inquisitiveness and agitates for change and thinking outside the box. She is passionate about leading business transformation towards a digital future.

This role is responsible for developing and delivering transition plans for a major technology transformation program of work. Importantly this includes the cutover of new workflows, business processes, new technology solutions and incorporates people readiness for the change.

• Collaborate with the business and IT stakeholders to define the scope of cutover activities associated with the transition / handover to the Business as Usual teams

• Define and develop the transition strategy and project plan for the program of work ensuring all areas (project, IT, business) are aligned with the plan and understand their role in it

• Establish the cutover RAIDD model, ensuring diligent risk management is undertaken with close management of effective mitigation’s, escalating risks and issues in project governance where necessary

• Develop management reports to communicate transition progress and outcomes including cutover status reporting to project leadership and key stakeholders involved in coordination of business transition activities

• Manage stakeholder relationships through effective communication, negotiation and issues management to ensure stakeholders are engaged throughout the project and project deliverables are met

• Extensive experience working as a Transition/Cut-Over Manager, including developing cutover strategies, plans and key dependencies, tools and processes, as well as experience as a Business Analyst or Program Manager.

• Demonstrated experience in the implementation of complex IT transformation programs, ideally within media or IT

• Outstanding stakeholder management skills; excellent communication and presentation skills; calm and measured approach with a focus on delivery, together with ability to identify organisational challenges, risks and points of resistance and recommending courses of action for successful mitigation.

• Good knowledge of programme and project management methods including either DSDM/Agile PM, Waterfall and/or PRINCE2.

• Scrum Master (Agile Delivery), ITILv4 Accreditation, P3O Foundation (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) and PROSCI Change Management qualifications also highly regarded. A tertiary education in IT or computer science also highly regarded.

• Flexibility – your choice to work remote, in the client office, or a bit of both. We trust you to get the work done

• Supportive team culture – where everyone feels supported, appreciated, listened to and empowered to do their best work

• Opportunities to grow, develop and learn – from the extensive experience in the team, and from exposure to a diverse range of complex, challenging projects, all accelerating your skills development and growth.

If you would like further information or to apply for this position, please email hello [at] thinkly [dot] com [dot] au with your details and we will be in touch with you.