IT Readiness Lead

Role: IT Business Readiness Lead

Location:

London (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Months

Day rate: £650 - £750 Inside IR35

• Leads IT readiness delivery for large-scale, complex change initiatives.
• Defines and implements IT readiness approaches appropriate to delivery models, scale, and complexity, ensuring change is delivered within organisational risk appetite and enables benefits realisation.
• Possesses the expertise to lead all aspects of IT readiness, from early engagement through transition to BAU.
• Establishes and operates effective IT readiness governance and control frameworks to ensure change is delivered within agreed readiness risk thresholds.
• Accountable for creating and maintaining forums, interactions, and engagement models with IT communities to ensure timely involvement in change activity and effective support throughout the change lifecycle.
• Works in partnership with IT change representatives to establish clear IT ownership through readiness activities, Path to Live controls, and BAU transition processes.
• Partners with IT senior leadership to support them in leading change within their areas, enabling them to take their teams through a structured and effective change journey.
• Identifies and manages dependencies with other related change initiatives, seeking opportunities for delivery alignment and efficiencies at scale.
• Influences delivery leads to ensure effective end-to-end change delivery outcomes.
• Designs and delivers change communications that clearly articulate the rationale for change, tailored to the perspectives and needs of impacted audiences.
• Produces and manages consolidated IT readiness reporting, providing clear, regular progress updates and insights.

• Accountable for the day-to-day management of end-to-end IT Readiness for all TRBK programme deliveries.
• Define and implement an effective IT Readiness approach for the full lifecycle of the TRBK programme, aligned to NBS change framework controls.
• Own IT Readiness governance, including planning, status reporting, escalation management, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, cost management, and change control decisions.
• Support and coach colleagues impacted by change, guiding them through the change journey and ensuring successful adoption.
• Act as a key interface between the TRBK programme and IT teams/users, ensuring readiness activities are planned, tailored, and completed to enable implementation, benefit realisation, and sustainable change.
• Lead the execution of stakeholder management, impact assessments, IT Readiness activities, colleague engagement, contingency planning, implementation, implementation support, and transition to BAU.
• Partner with IT change representatives to establish clear IT ownership through readiness activities, Path to Live controls, and BAU transition.
• Collaborate with IT senior leadership, supporting them in leading change within their areas and enabling their teams through a structured and effective change journey.
• Ensure IT Readiness is delivered within NBS risk appetite by defining readiness criteria for TRBK technology changes and establishing appropriate Go / No-Go (GNG) decision forums