Friday, October 17, 2008

FILLED Ref # DM4018 Interim Employment Law Consultant

Role

Our client is urgently seeking an experienced interim to help them with an EMEA acquisition. The role will be based in Slough.

Requirements

• Employment Law expertise.
• TUPE experience.
• EMEA experience.
• Acquisition experience.

Logistics

Rate Up to £550
Location Slough
Duration 6 months


FILLED Ref # DM4017 Interim Network Manager

Background

This interim position is a Network Management role.

Role

A proven manager is urgently needed to run the network infrastructure across Europe for a major organisation, with responsibility for all aspects of network services and a number of shared services in the Data Centre.

The job entails managing a small networks team but the main part of the role is to manage a range of outsourced suppliers on a day to day basis. This would also involve contract management.

Requirements

The scope is the voice/video/data network, shared storage, data centre backup & DR, blade architecture and network security.

Applicants must have experience of large distributed site business, ideally retail or similar. Although this is a "managing the fort" position there is scope for recommending and improving the provision of networks across the company.

Rate Up to £550
Location Dublin, Ireland with a little time in Reading, Berkshire
Duration 3 months, extension likely

Thursday, October 16, 2008

FILLED [ref#JS5014] Business Analyst, IT Offshoring, Global Law Firm

This role will be of interest to anyone with an interest in a Business Analyst, IT Offshoring role based in London [Canary Wharf] who is available to start immediately.

Background:
Our client is a leading global law firm. They have built their own captive offshoring centre in Delhi, and are currently undertaking the transition of a number of back-office processes to this centre, including IT.
They are looking for a Business Analyst to assist in the successful offshoring of these processes.

Role:
We are looking for a Business Analyst to work with the IT Offshoring Project Manager to identify process gaps and training needs for candidate offshoring processes, and then design & implement the "to be" processes and target organisation needed in India to ensure these processes are successfully offshored.

Responsibilities will include:

Project Management & Planning
· Provide input and updates to the IT offshore project plan, owned by the IT Offshore Project Manager

Business Process Offshoring
· Determine which IT processes are suitable for being offshored
· Design and implement "to be" processes
· Identify process gaps
· Work with IT to ensure target offshore processes are documented and benchmarked
· Provide input to determining any system requirements needed to enable the offshoring

Organisation Design
· Design and implement "to be" target organisation
· Assist in the organisation and role redesign needed to support the offshored service
· Work with IT to ensure competent [trained] resources are in place to execute the offshored processes

Training
· Identify training requirements
· Assist in the training & education of all users impacted by the changes

Change Management + Communications
· Identify the people and change management issues arising
· Under the direction of the IT Offshore PM, manage relationships with key stakeholders in IT, HR and Comms to ensure comms are planned & co-ordinated
· Work with the Comms & Change teams to ensure effective comms take place with both stakeholders of the transferred service and staff affected by the move

Service Management
· Agree KPIs: measure the existing service & work out how to measure the offshored service to ensure there is no reduction in service
· Working with IT Service Management, ensure existing support models are modified to allow the offshored service to integrate seamlessly into BAU
Specific skills/requirements:

Mandatory requirements:
· Must have prior experience & understanding of IT process mapping, and business processes reengineering
· Must have worked on a transformation project from end to end, i.e. from establishing as-is, defining to-be, design build + test through pilots to go-live & BAU
· Must have prior experience on a project that has transferred an IT service to a captive IT offshore facility, ideally based in India

Logistics:

Rate: upto £467 per day
Location: London [Canary Wharf]
Approx duration: Initially 3-6 months, with strong possibility of extension

PLEASE NOTE:
We have been given a very tight deadline to submit CVs for this role by 12noon Monday 20th October. Unfortunately, CVs submitted after that time are unlikely to be considered.

Interested?
If this role is of interest to you, please send a recent CV by return email to jim.shaw@b2e-resourcing.co.uk , stating:
1. Your target rate [please note - client has stated max rate is £467 per day]
2. Your specific previous similar experience [mapped against the three mandatory requirements outlined above]
3. Your availability for the assignment

Many thanks, Jim

Thursday, October 09, 2008

FILLED Interim Ref # DM4015 Shared Service Consultant

This message is going out to consultants in the B2E Resourcing Consulting Network who have stated capabilities in IT and BPR capabilitites and those with immediate availability.

This role will be of interest to anyone with an interest in Shared Services who can start immediately on a project in London

Background:

Our client is a large media organization.

Role:

They are implementing a shared service centre for Transactions including HR, Admin, Billing and Payments.

Specific skills/requirements:

They are looking for a consultant with expertise in creating, setting up and running a Shared Service Centre. The consultant should be able to shape the project, design, implement and run the Shared service Centre.

Logistics:

Rate: Competitive Rate
Location: London
Approx duration: 3 -6 Months

Friday, October 03, 2008

Filled Ref # 4014 Retail Planner for Mobile Telco

This role will be of interest to anyone with an interest in Retail planning in the Mobile Telephone sector who can lead a Project starting in November.

This role is going out to all those who have signed up as ALL interim and permanent consultants and to those with an interest in IT

If you feel that this is not appropriate to you, we are sorry to have bothered you – you may be set up to receive details of “ALL Interim and Permanent Roles”. Please check your preferences by clicking on the "Update Profile/Email Address" link at the foot of this email.

Background:

Our client is a small consultancy which works on supply chain projects for high technology companies. They are bidding for a large piece of work for a Mobile Telephone Company which requires putting together a plan for their retail operations. They are looking for a consultant to help them with this project. Please send CV’s by 9am 6th October to be included in the RFP

Role:

The consultant will be included in the RFP due out 6th October and their CV will be part of the bid. They will then lead the project with the consultancy if the bid is successful. The project is due to start in November. If successful the project is likely to be 1 month full time with the possibility of sell on implementation work.

The project includes

1 Developing a bottom-up assessment of the likely benefits of each of the initiatives that forms the Retail Transformation Programme;
2 Map out the key assumptions / milestones that underpin the benefits outlined in item 1;
3 Roll-up the individual initiative benefits into an assessment of the total programme benefit;
4 Propose the appropriate measurements and framework for tracking these benefits through the life of the Programme, using the output from items 1 and 3;
5 Baseline the measurements to be tracked in the framework developed in part 4; and
6 Review the proposed programme governance framework.


Specific skills/requirements:

The Consultant should have an Understanding of retail organization and performance preferably in a mobile telco environment. In particular they will be able to plan around the following:

Assessment of Retail/Agent performance, Pay structure and training
Estate Optimising and look and feel of stores
Merchandising and product offering
Retailing processes and systems.

Logistics:

Deadline: Cv’s by 9am 6th October
Rate: Please state target rate
Location: TBC
Approx duration: 1 month project work if bid successful.
Start: November


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