IT Mobilisation & Bid Manager (Construction)
Role Overview
Leads the technology side of complex contract mobilisations, bringing people, platforms and processes together for a seamless customer start.
Owns IT mobilisation delivery and represents IT from kick-off through go-live and hypercare.
The role includes national travel across the UK and is described as hybrid remote in Finsbury Park.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads the technology side of complex contract mobilisations, bringing people, platforms and processes together for a seamless customer start.
Owns IT mobilisation delivery and represents IT from kick-off through go-live and hypercare.
The role includes national travel across the UK and is described as hybrid remote in Finsbury Park.
Mobilisation and team leadership
- Own milestones, dependencies and stage gates through go-live and post-go-live support.
- Line-manage project managers and business analysts, set objectives, coach delivery and build a high-performing team.
- Oversee platform configuration and integrations with client and supplier systems, ensuring data quality, security and performance.
- Coordinate IT workstreams covering systems changes, data, training, go-live and hypercare.
- Represent IT at kick-offs, steering groups, design reviews, readiness forums and cutover command centres.
Bids, governance and improvement
- Review tender packs, shape IT responses and represent IT in client demos and interviews.
- Enforce mobilisation standards and provide risk, issue and progress updates to programme and senior forums.
- Maintain and improve mobilisation playbooks, templates and document libraries, embedding lessons learned.
- Identify and secure project manager, business analyst and subject-matter-expert resources for each mobilisation.
Experience and qualifications
- Proven end-to-end IT mobilisation delivery experience.
- Technical grounding in systems integration, data migration, non-functional readiness, UAT, cutover and hypercare.
- Bid experience covering tender reviews, solution authoring, demo preparation and delivery.
- Degree or equivalent; PRINCE2 or Agile; knowledge of ISO 27001 and GDPR.
- ITIL Foundation is desirable; construction-sector experience is a nice to have.
Communication and working style
- Communicates effectively with diverse stakeholders and translates technical decisions for non-technical audiences.
- The source describes the desired behaviours as calm under pressure, accountable, collaborative, curious and customer-focused.
Pay and benefits
- Pay is £70,000–£85,000 per year.
- Benefits include a company car and company pension.
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