FILLED Sourcing Consultant (ref TM6040)

Sourcing Consultant - Logistics/Call Centre (TM6040)

Interim, 11 months,
London Based
£Comp, Beg May start

Role Summary

Our client is a specialist procurement and supply chain consultancy. They are in the final stages of bidding for some work with a global technology company.

There are looking for a couple of Sourcing Consultants to join their team.

Role

The client needs someone who has experience of running the end to end RFP process. This project begins after the RFPs are written and the supplier list selected.

The role is to :

• Run the RFP.
• Chase responses.
• Analyse and present finding to client.
• Set up and run on-site reviews.
• Help with selection of suppliers and input to contracting.
• Then set up and run the pilot and then roll out across Europe

Ideal person - Someone who can demonstrate extensive sourcing skills and understands technology , ideally with experience in reverse logistics but at least supply chain expertise would be necessary.

One consultant will have deep experience with Logistics the other with Call Centres.

The role is virtually full time from May 2013 to March 2014

FILLED Data Quality and Governance Analyst (ref DM4255)

Data Quality and Governance Analyst

Interim, Up to 3 months,
Up to £450,
Canary wharf,
Immediate Start

Deadline for CV Submissions:  5pm Thursday 25th April

Role Summary

Our client is a Financial Services Regulatory Organisation undergoing transformation of their Regulatory activities

This is a secondment to a line role based in the Data & Analysis Team within Policy Risk and Research.

The role has two key objectives -

• to define the approach to data quality
• to define the Data Governance policies

The role will report to the Head of Dept for the Data & Analysis Team and will work closely on a day to day basis with managers across the team.

Key Skills/Requirements

• The individual will need to assess the way the organisation manages data quality and governs its data quickly

• Be able to shape/influence the way the organisation delivers actionable, integrated and accessible data, through improvements to data quality and governance

• The individual needs be a Confident team worker action orientated and able to create a 'delivery drumbeat'

FILLED Information Requirements Facilitator (ref DM4253)

Information Requirements Facilitator
Interim, 6-12 months,
Up to £550,
Canary Wharf, Immediate Start

Deadline for CV Submissions:  5pm Thursday 25th April

Role Summary

Our client is a Financial Services Regulatory Organisation undergoing transformation of their Regulatory activities

They are asking firms to provide them with standardised information on their activities

This amounts to a significant amount of data from around 500 firms which needs structuring, managing and analyzing to decide the approach required for supervision of the firms.

The role will be responsible for building deep relationships with front line staff who rely on and need this integrated data in their day to day activities in Authorisation, Policy, Supervision, Risk, and Enforcement.

Based on these relationships the role will then be responsible for establishing high level statements of need from the stakeholders on the data they use to gain insight and answer questions about what is happening in the UK FS markets.

Key Skills and Requirements

• Building Strong relationships with front line staff - building rapport and gaining trust

• Understanding their use of data and conceptualising how the data strategy might work

• Awareness & experience of 'big data' & data mining projects including experience of data mining projects outside and within Financial Services

FILLED Project Manager - Data Strategy (ref DM4252)

Project Manager - Data Strategy

Interim, Up to 3 months,
Up to £450,
Canary Wharf,
Immediate Start

Deadline for CV Submission:  5pm Thursday 25th April

Role Summary

Our client is a Financial Services Regulatory Organisation. They are transforming their Regulatory activities

They are asking firms to provide them with standardised information on management information metrics used to manage their businesses.

This amounts to a significant amount of data from around 500 firms which needs structuring, managing and analyzing to decide the approach required for supervision of the firms.

The role will be responsible for shaping the deliverables and assisting with the implementation of the data strategy.

This role will report into the Programme Manager for the Data Strategy delivery work and work closely with him.

Relevant Experience

• Demonstrable experience of shaping projects delivering transformation and within a Data strategy Programme
• Awareness & experience of 'big data' & data mining projects
• Experience of data mining projects outside Financial Services

FILLED Data Architect (ref DM4254)

Data Architect
Interim, Up to 3 months,
Up to £800,
Canary Wharf.
Immediate Start

CV Submission Deadline:  5pm Thursday 25th April

Summary

Our client is a Financial Services Regulatory Organisation undergoing transformation of their Regulatory activities

They are asking firms to provide them with standardised information on their activities

This amounts to a significant amount of data from around 500 firms which needs structuring, managing and analyzing to decide the approach required for supervision of the firms.

To begin implementation of the Data Strategy there is a need for a lead to be responsible for designing and delivering all of the technical architecture deliverables that are required to make the Data Management Model happen.

Key Skills/Requirements

• Technical Architect with ability to understand Data strategy across large organisations and full life cycle Technical Architecture Development experience.

• The emphasis is on Designing Technical Architecture Target Operating Models including the Business Model, the Conceptual model and the Data Technical/infrastructure architecture, and multiple instances of this are required.

• Developing an in-depth and demonstrable understanding of the Data Strategy and the guiding principles behind it and acting as a credible advocate of the Data Strategy across the Organisation

FILLED Agile Methodology Consultant (ref TM6039)

AGILE Methodology Consultant [TM6039]

Interim, 3 months, London Based
to £550 per day, Immediate start

Role Summary

Our client is a Regulatory Body undergoing significant transformation. One of their aims is to manage their relationships with their clients more professionally and thereby have launched a major CRM Programme.

Whilst the CRM Programe will be underpinned by technology it is recognied as a mutli faceted programme requiring a robust guiding methodology.

The key requirement is for someone who is experienced in defining/rolling out Agile methodology into an organisation. Specifically experience with IBM's RUP methodology would be a plus but not manadatory. CRM experience is preferable but also not a must.

The client is looking for a Process Engineer/Methodology specialist to join their team for a 3 month review.

FILLED CRM Programme Manager (ref TM6038)

CRM Programme Manager [ref TM6038]

Interim, 3 months, London Based
to £550 per day, Immediate start

Role Summary

Our client is a Financial Services Organisation which provides Regulation in the Consumer Finance area. They are undergoing a significant merger with another regulatory body and need help to review the structure of their CRM Programme.

They are looking to add an experienced Programme Manager with experience of setting up CRM projects. The successful candidate will be able to provide advice and guidance on :

1. Overall Software Development Lifecycle
2. Design/Development Disciplines and Techniques
3. Tooling guidance
4. Contract / Training / Coaching

Role

There is a need for a Consultant to work with the CRM team over a period of 12 weeks (estimated). The Consultant will clarify the CRM programme's approach to software development, across the internal team and the suppliers. This will clear up any uncertainty and enable project planning to progress with the full understanding of the underlying process and its steps.

The requirement has arisen because the CRM Project was re-scoped to look holistically at the entirety of the impact of a new CRM solution. It was deemed necessary to revise the CRM project and create a complete programme of work.

This re-scoped CRM programme includes:

• Core CRM software solution based on Salesforce.com
• the consumer contact centre scope;
• new authorisations and supervision;
• the unknown impact of data migration;

Key skills and Requirements

Mandatory

• An extensive understanding and experience of the systems development lifecycle, the primary options and their strengths and weaknesses
• Ability to structure projects and manage Stakeholders
• Experience of CRM projects - Salesforce.com would be a bonus

Detailed skills/requirements:

The Consultant will need to support:

Overall Software Process

• Lifecycle: Both the high-level software lifecycle, including phasing and key milestones, and the low-level day to day lifecycle, along with clarity on how they will interface

• Governance: An overview of what software lifecycle governance approaches will be used (e.g. Unified Process, DSDM Atern) and how they will map to Delivery Framework project governance

• Roles and responsibilities: The software development roles that will be used and their respective responsibilities. An outline of which roles will be filled internally and by partners and a proposed resourcing strategy for internal roles

• Terminology: A single set of clear terminology to describe lifecycle concepts (e.g. iterations, phases, tranches, waves, sprints or chunks)

• Artefacts: A description of which artefacts will be used, both internal Delivery Framework documents but also any externally partner-produced documents are to be produced. To include the approach to potentially conflicting documents (e.g. Business requirements documents, use cases, user stories)

• Standards: The CLIENT standards that should be adhered to

Disciplines and Techniques

• Agreement on how the disciplines (business analysis, architecture, development, test) will work and the techniques they will use

• Overall approaches per discipline: The high-level process that the DDI discipline teams will follow and [working with the relevant SMEs] how will they integrate into the BA and CTO approaches to yield a single unified way of working

• For business analysis: How requirements will be captured and agreed with the business and how change will be managed

• For architecture: The approach to be used to incrementally develop the Solution Architecture Document (SAD)

• For testing: The testing approaches will be used and when; including who has responsibility for each test type (CLIENT, Supplier A, Supplier B, etc)

• Which techniques will be used

• Business analysis: What BA techniques will be used, e.g. storyboarding, personas? [Working with BA SMEs]

• Architecture / design: Will the model-driven approach to systems design will be used?

• Test automation: What types of testing will be automated?

• Agile estimation and planning: Will Agile estimation and planning techniques be used to enhance planning under uncertainty?

Tooling Guidance

• Lifecycle: The lifecycle tools that will be used (e.g. HP ALM) to organise, manage and report on the day-to-day delivery. If Agile lifecycle tools are to be used (e.g. Rally), then a discussion of the integration approach if required.

• Discipline based tools: What discipline (BA, Test, Arch, etc) tools should be used e.g. Troux (CTO), Axure (BA), Rational Software Architect (SA), Erwin (Data) and how they will be integrated

AOB: Contract / Training / Coaching

• Contract: Support to the contracting process to ensure the CLIENT's interests are best protected, even when using an Agile lifecycle

• Training: Recommendation on training required (e.g. Use cases or tool-specific training)

• Coaching: Coaching to be provided to team members throughout the engagement, e.g. to help with iterative project planning

FILLED Service Transition & Release Analyst (ref DB6140)

Service Transition & Release Analyst

Interim, 6 mths +,
Canary Wharf
up to £500 per day,
May start

Role Summary

Our client is integrating the Release Management and Change Processes within its Service Transition organisation to provide a consistent and seamless approach to Service Transition, fully aligned with ITIL Best Practice.

They require an experienced Service Transition and Release Analyst to assist with the implementation of these new processes and ensure that all project teams and 3rd parties understand and support the proposed Service Transition Model.

Application Deadline: Wednesday 9 am 24th April. Applications received after this deadline may not be reviewed before the shortlist is submitted to the client.

Details

The Service Transition organisation is responsible for the transition of systems from the project phase into Business as Usual. This role reports directly to the Service Transition Manager.

The primary purpose of this role is to ensure a consistent and seamless approach to Service Transition across the organisation. Specifically this involves:

•managing and reviewing deliverables to achieve operational acceptance and readiness (e.g.,Non Functional Requirements, Acceptance Criteria, Support Model, Acceptance Reports, Service Level Agreements, Contractual Support Schedules)

•attending & contributing to project and release control boards and steering committees

•ensuring support functions are prepared and capable of supporting any new services deployed.

•ensuring all Service Transition requirements are understood by engaging teams.

•identifying all Service related risks and issues and ensure they are managed.

•working with existing teams on in flight project engagements to ensure the service readiness criteria are being tracked and on target.

•identifying & managing the Acceptance & Readiness activities across the Service Transition Portfolio.

•conducting project completion and assessment (business case benefit achievement) together with review and lessons learnt.

Key skills and Requirements

•Experienced Service Transition Analyst, with deep understanding of Release & Change Management processes

•Experience of implementing systems into large and complex live IT environments using ITIL based standards

•Effective in working collaboratively across multiple projects, teams, and with 3rd parties to encourage the adoption of new processes

Qualifications

•Degree qualified
•ITIL Foundation level accreditation or Prince II Foundation certified

FILLED Technical Project Manager (ref SP6001)

Technical Project Manager, Professional Services

Interim, 12 months FTC
£80,000
London Based

Deadline for CV Submission: 6pm Wed 24th April

Role Summary

Our client is a large global fully integrated law firm committed to leadership and innovation in legal service. It is a global market leader in all major areas of legal advice and a major element of its strategy is to attract and retain the best people by developing and nurturing the talent that they have.

This role is for a Project Manager to be responsible for delivering technical projects, achieving the objectives set out in the project's business case. The projects will typically, but not exclusively, involve: relocation of facilities and IT infrastructure, establishment of new facilities and IT infrastructure, transition of applications and infrastructure from an internally hosted environment to a third party.

Details

The Project Manager will be required to run a number of technical projects to deliver change which will involve both general business and technical aspects. In this role you will be responsible for the delivery of the full project lifecycle from inception through to completion including:

• Ensuring that the business case has validated benefits
• Planning and resourcing the project in conjunction with IT stakeholders
• Managing the project according to the firm's governance structure
• Managing the project's scope and budget
• Delivering training and communication plans
• Working with IT Teams and IT Stakeholders at all levels
Key skills and Requirements

General Skills

• Managing Resources - although there will be no formal line management responsibilities, you be required to :
- request the use of resources from other departments, offices, vendors and suppliers for part or whole projects
- provide formal guidance or induction training as required;
- manage specialists and/or account managers in 3rd-parties
- plan, prioritise and allocate expenditure to achieve your goals within budget

• Leadership
- experience of matrix management
- ability to inspire and motivate team members
- ability to interact with other teams, across different functions or businesses and also countries and continents
• Communicating & Influencing
- proactively provide a range of information and advice in a coherent manner
- establish credibility with technical specialists by demonstrating a broad knowledge of IT (including networks, telecoms, enterprise applications, computing hardware, and IT Services), and being able to add value to decision-making in these areas

• Organisational/Strategic Thinking
• Strong Change Management Skills
• Analytical Thought and Problem Solving
• Client Focused

Professional Expertise

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent, ideally in a science or math's based subject.
• qualification in a recognised project methodology, such as Prince2 (practitioner level), PMI or PMBOK.

Experience

• Extensive technical project management (4-6 full project lifecycles)

• Background in project delivery, from building business cases that deliver measurable benefits through to project closure

• Projects including:
- relocation of IT infrastructure (networks, data centres, hardware);
- transition of IT infrastructure from in-house operations to third parties or between third parties;
- establishment of new contracts with telecoms, network or data centre providers.

• Managing relationships with IT Stakeholders at all levels

• recognised project management methodology (ideally Prince2) on a range of both technical and business projects of varying sizes

• Another law firm or Professional Services environment, or a sizeable corporate

FILLED Data Analyst (ref DM4251)

Data Analyst
Interim, 3 months initially,
Canary Wharf,
Up to £400,
End April Start

Role Summary

Our Client is a Financial Services Regulatory body which receives large amounts of information from the firms they Regulate.

In particular they are asking firms to provide them with standardised information on management information metrics used to manage their businesses.

This amounts to a significant amount of data from around 500 firms which needs analyzing to decide the approach required to supervise the firms.

They require an experienced data analyst to support the sector teams in managing, manipulating and interrogating this data.

Details

Reporting to the manager of the relevant sector team the data analyst will be responsible for:

• Extracting and managing significant volumes of data from various sources using Excel, Access and COGNOS;

• Working with the supervisory teams to manipulate / interrogate the data to ensure it can be effectively utilised by the sector teams;

• Designing and applying analytical tools that can assess the risks to customers that particular products may pose by virtue of how they are designed.

• Liaising with supervision and Data Analysis colleagues to identify and understand sources of data and how these may be used in the business analysis process;

• Statistical validation of the outputs of the data sets; and

• Interrogating and analysing data from the FSA's internal systems including financial, transactional and case management analysis.

Key skills and Requirements

Mandatory

• A strong Data Analyst with experience of managing and manipulating large complex datasets
• Excellent Excel and COGNOS skills and experience.
• Financial Services experience is helpful

Desirable

• Experience of Excel VBA is desirable

FILLED BA - Target Operating Model (ref DM4250)

Target Operating Model BA

Interim, 3 months initially,
Canary Wharf,
Up to £500,
Immediate Start

Application Deadline:  midday Friday 19th April. 

Role Summary

Our Client is a Financial Services Organisation with a role in regulating Consumer Finance.They are undergoing a merger and a consequent restructuring of their Operations and are looking for a Business Analyst to work on this.

Details

The activities involved in this role are:

• To refine the operating model for the new regime, including:
   -  Updating the FTE cost model with the latest assumptions
   -  Updating the firm journeys to reflect the latest CRM release structure
• Working with the Subject Matter Experts to define the strategy for authorisations
• To engage with the rest of the programme to ensure the operating model is operationalized effectively.

The key deliverables are:

• Updated target operating model
• Updated cost model
• Authorisations strategy paper

Key Skills and Requirements

Mandatory

• Strong business focused business analyst with experience of developing Target Operating Models
• Good understanding of Finance and experience of working with Cost Models
• Proactive / Self-starter with Strong communication skills and able to influence senior business stakeholders

Desirable

• Fianancial Services, Regulatory and CRM experience all desirable

INTERIM IT Project Manager, Major Systems Investment Programme (ref DM4249)

Interim IT Project Manager,
Major Systems Investment Programme,
6 months initially,
Market Rate,
Canary Wharf,
ASAP Start.


Role Summary

This is a rerun of a Previous role (DB6139) with some Criteria modified. Previous applicants need not apply.

Our client, a financial services organisation, requires a project manager to lead the integration of a new Application Management (ALM) tool across all projects within the client's Information Systems Investment Programme.

The aim of the new tool is to make Operations and Project costs and performance transparent and predictable and improve them over time.

The role requires Structured Project Manager experience in large, complex programmes and a good knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle.

Application deadline: 12 noon Thursday 18th April. Unfortunately given the urgent nature of this request, we cannot guarantee to review applications received after this deadline.

Details

The primary goal of this project is to provide a single and consistent view of project information right from requirements management through to design, build, test and release.

An Application Lifecycle Management Tool has recently been implemented to do this. This has the capability to integrate with a number of other tools used by the client within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

The tool is going to be used by all projects for development and test management activities, which presents an opportunity to further extend the tool's capabilities into other stages of the SDLC, facilitating effective end-to-end IS delivery using an integrated toolset.

Key Skills and Requirements

• Experience of implementing systems in large and complex programme delivery environments (e.g. £20M+ Programmes)

• Strong, structured full lifecycle project management, deeply conversant with major project and development methodologies (e.g. SDLC, MSP, Prince 2)

• Strong technical and testing background with exposure to tier 1 testing toolkits an advantage

Interested?

If this role is of interest to you, please send a recent CV to david.meggitt@b2e-resourcing.co.uk, stating:
• your target daily rate for the role
• your availability
• your specific relevant experience, as outlined in [Key Skills and Requirements] above

FILLED Senior BA/Project Manager, Sales CRM Project (ref DB6139)

Senior BA / Project Manager, Sales CRM Project

Interim, 12 months +,
Central London
Up to £600 per day,
May start


Role Summary

Our client is a global market-leading producer of prestigious hi-tech communications products and applications.

They require a hybrid project manager / senior business analyst to drive the introduction of a new sales pipeline process (Lead to Order) and supporting CRM system across EMEIA and the global organisation.

Deadline for response: Thursday 18th April 12 pm. Applications received after this deadline will miss the initial submission to the client and may not be reviewed.

Role and Responsibilities

This role sits within the client's Sales BPR function created to project manage strategic projects across EMEIA and worldwide.

The role involves working autonomously alongside multiple teams (e.g. functional SMEs, internal IT and 3rd party suppliers) within a global, matrixed business environment.

The key responsibilities involve:

1.Full Lifecycle Business Analysis

- Leading definition of new requirements, facilitating workshops with multiple stakeholders to gain consensus, liaising with the in-house IT team, designing new processes / flows, planning, creating and running test and UAT

2.Project Management

- defining project roadmap/ scope/ deliverables/ budget/ resource requirements, managing risks / issues / dependencies, co-ordinating activities across the functional /IT/ vendor teams, communicating status

3.Stakeholder Management

- actively managing a functionally and geographically diverse set of stakeholders to ensure consensus and maintain focus

Key skills and Requirements

The following experience is mandatory:

• Full lifecycle hands-on Business Systems Analysis & well-rounded Project Management experience

• Deep knowledge of the sales pipeline process (with particular experience of sales-related ERP solutions or customised CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce, SAP Sales CRM)

• An appreciation of the technical / systems considerations involved in building corporate solutions

• Demonstrable experience of achieving results by operating autonomously across multiple teams in a matrixed and ambiguous corporate environment

In addition to this, the following would be advantageous:

BPR / Project management qualifications (e.g. Prince2, MSP, PMP, BPM, ITIL)

FILLED Business Analyst -Defence Sector, Australia (ref TM6037)

Business Analyst - Defence Sector

Interim, 3 months initially,
Sydney or Canberra, Australia
up to £450 per day, plus subsistence/flights

Role Summary

Our client leads the field in enterprise-level strategic simulation for the defence sector. They have developed a unique, simulation-based product suite which addresses the leading challenges of the day in the defence sector and is configurable to new services and capability programmes.

They require a Business Analyst to help them gather requirements for a client in Australia.

Details

Our client's simulation-based solutions are designed for senior management use, providing military planners with the evidence basis to make safer and more cost-effective use of military resources at the strategic level, equipping Defence forces to procure greater 'Capability' at lower cost. The solutions cover the core components of 'Capability', allowing Services to coordinate between and optimise their equipment, manpower, training and support decisions by exploring alternative futures in the safety of a simulation and without needing to risk investment or impact upon operations.

Key Skills and Requirements

Core skills:

• Business Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Defence sector experience
Highly desirable skills:

• Simulation or modelling background
• Australian or UK security clearance

FILLED Project Manager, Testing Tool Integration (ref DB6139)

Project Manager,
Testing Tool Integration
Interim, 6 months,
London Based
£market rates,
Late April start


Role Summary

Our client, a global financial services organisation, urgently requires a project manager with strong technical expertise / capability to lead the integration of a new testing toolset across all projects within the client's Strategic Information Systems Investment Programme.

Application deadline: 9 am Wednesday 10th April. Unfortunately given the urgent nature of this request, we cannot guarantee to review applications received after this deadline.

Details

This primary goal of this project is to harmonise and integrate the various independent toolsets that are used by the various IS departments to provide a single and consistent view of project information right from requirements management through to design, build, test and release.

Currently a range of toolsets are used to accomplish specific tasks such as requirements gathering, design and delivery management and test management and, although effective in their respective tasks, require significant effort in reconciling the information held in each of them.

An Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tool has recently been implemented. This has the capability to integrate with a number of other tools used by the client within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Use of ALM is now mandated to be used by all projects for test management activities, which presents an opportunity to further extend the tool's capabilities into other stages of SDLC, facilitating an effective end-to-end IS delivery using an integrated toolset.

Key Skills and Requirements

* Experience of implementing and integrating test tools in large and complex business senvironments (not necessarily ALM, although this would clearly be an advantage)
* Strong full-lifecycle project management experience
* Strong technical background

FILLED Record Migration Business Analyst (ref TM6036)

Record Migration Business Analyst
Interim, 3 months, London Based
£400 per day, Immediate start

Role Summary

Our client is a Financial Services Organisation which provides Regulation in the Consumer Finance area. They are undergoing a significant merger with another regulatory body and need help integrating their enforcement processes and information records. This programme will complete in April 2014

They are looking to add a Business Analyst to their team who has one or both of the following :

• Extensive experience within a regulatory environment
• Extensive experience of record migration within a complex merger

This is quite a specific requirement and we recommend that your response be tailored to highlight how your experience maps onto the clients needs.

Role

To support the client's merger programme they need a strong business analyst to:

• Understand and document the merger partner's current enforcement processes, data sources and supporting information / records

• Work with the client's enforcement team to capture records migration requirements and to establish requirements for new data feeds to support the new consumer credit enforcement regime from 1 April 2014

• Provide a strong business focus, proactive approach, strong communication skills and be able to influence senior business stakeholders

• Introduce rigorous project management disciplines