Mobilisation & Project Manager

About The Company

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Days Of Working:
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Occasional weekends and nights can be expected.

Following a period of rapid growth, OCS, an expert in facilities management have created an exciting new role for an experienced soft service mobilisation and change manager, looking to progress their career in a challenging, diverse and rewarding role of central importance to the OCS Business.

Reporting to Head of Mobilisation UK & Ireland, supporting Business leaders across our OCS UK&IRE business, the successful candidate will lead and co-ordinate change and mobilisation activity to enable the business to deliver change management objectives in line with our 5yr strategic vision and plans and enable mobilisations to perform in line with the contract from go live.

This will include working closely with senior internal stakeholders and operational teams to ensure all aspects of change management & mobilisation are covered to the required quality, legislative and compliance standards.

The role requires the candidate to work to agreed standards and methodology ensuring that change projects & mobilisations deliver the expected benefits on time, to the expected quality standards, and within the agreed budget. This includes the preparation and maintenance of all project documentation, project plans, risk and issue logs, reporting requirements and presentations. This also includes the tracking of cost and benefits on an on‑going basis.

Overall management of mobilisation activities, deliverables, and resource. Specifically related to change management this role requires the individual to understand and lead where required change and change workshops for affected parties to enable the delivery of strategic projects in support of our growth strategy.

You will be competent in managing large scale hard and soft moblisation & change programmes. An influential, engaging PM, you will instill confidence and belief in our clients; your communication skills will enable you to build long‑standing collaborative relationships with clients, stakeholders and colleagues alike. You will be a driver for excellence, quality and innovation.

• Supporting the Head of Projects and Mobilisation and the wider Mobilisation team in the delivery of objectives and goals
• Overseeing the full Change, Mobilisation and Transition process, to include:
  Initiating kick off meetings; facilitating the governance process; managing change & mobilisation project plan, risk and issue log, actions log, project meetings, and producing regular progress reports; managing mobilisation budget
• Co‑ordinating all internal and external client and end user communications; managing projects to meet objectives to time, quality and cost; delivering projects to agreed methodologies and standards; coordinating all client and end user communications; maintaining all project documentation
• Highlighting and actively engaging all project stakeholders and maintaining close and ongoing relationships with key stakeholder through the life of the projects
• Building and maintaining RAID's logs (Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) prioritising and building mitigation plans to minimise impact, and escalating business critical issues in a timely manner
• Responsibility for quality management of change & mobilisation project deliverables
• Highlighting any breaches of tolerances and taking migrating action to rectify
• Maintaining project reporting and providing highlight reports when requested
• Undertaking lessons learnt sessions upon project closure and factoring in learning to drive continuous improvement processes
• Maintaining…