Service Transition Project Manager

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 29 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We're an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We're a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it's deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we'll invest in you!

We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customers' businesses." We work hard to understand what our customers need from their technology solutions - and then we deliver. As an award‑winning company implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies, we hire great people, think big, and provide world‑class service.

As part of our ongoing evolution, we continue to define, embed and mature our Service Design, Service Transition and Project Delivery practices. This role sits within our central team of Service Project Managers who drive excellence across transition, delivery and operational readiness.

We are seeking a highly skilled and dynamic Service Transition & Project Manager to lead the seamless delivery of IT projects and transition activities from implementation through to operational handover. You will work across service transition, project governance, change management and continuous improvement, ensuring services are delivered, transitioned and supported effectively as organisational and customer needs grow.

You will support customer teams across multiple functions, managing transition and project delivery activities, ensuring readiness, governance and smooth introduction into Managed Services.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects using recognised PM methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Establish and manage project scope, timelines, milestones, RAID logs, dependencies, budgets, and resource plans.
• Produce and maintain all core project documentation, governance packs, and status reporting.
• Ensure compliance with organisational PMO standards, delivery models, and quality controls.
• Drive decision making, managing change requests, impacts, baselines and governance checkpoints.
• Own the planning and execution of service transition activities for new or changed services.
• Define service readiness criteria, acceptance requirements, support models, and operational documentation.
• Ensure operational teams (Service Desk, Support, SDMs, SMEs) are ready, trained, equipped and fully briefed for go-live.
• Act as the primary point of contact for project and transition matters across customer, internal teams, and third‑party suppliers.
• Build trusted relationships across technical, operational and business stakeholders.
• Manage escalations calmly, ensuring minimal impact to delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Contribute to bids, RFPs and proposals with transition and project delivery effort, assumptions, scope and risk inputs.
• Define transition plans, costing estimates, delivery approaches and governance recommendations during pre‑sales.
• Capture, document and drive lessons learned, ensuring improvements feed into future projects and standardised templates.
• Contribute to maturing service transition and project management.

• Minimum 8‑10yrs years' experience in service transition, project delivery, change management, or similar roles within IT service environments.
• Strong experience delivering IT projects within complex, multi‑supplier and fast-moving environments.
• Excellent command of risk, issue, dependency and…