Monday, September 30, 2013

FILLED PMO Manager, FMCG Integration Programme (DB6155)

PMO Manager (DB6155)

FMCG Integration Programme
Middlesex,
Interim, 6 months +,
Up to £500 per day
Application Deadline:  5pm Wednesday 2nd October

Role Summary 

Our client is an FMCG organisation embarking on a cross-function integration programme.

They require an experienced yet hands-on PMO consultant to set up and administer the PMO as well as help manage stakeholders and coach project managers. 

Reporting directly to the Programme Director, this hands-on role will provide an  in-depth exposure to a post-merger integration programme at all levels and the opportunity to apply a proven PMI methodology at an early stage.
Role & Responsibilities 

The overall programme is comprised of circa 40 projects involving approximately
20 project managers.  The role is split into two main activities: 

* PMO Reporting - (approx. 70% of the role) - taking a hands-on role in defining and producing MI as required by the Programme Manager and executive stakeholders 

* Stakeholder  Management / Project Management Coaching (approx. 30% effort) - liaising with stakeholders at all levels, running workshops and training sessions with PMs to ensure consistent PM approaches and Risk, Issue, Dependency management.

Key Skills and Requirements

The following are essential: 

* Functional / Industry Skills:
   -  
Strong all round PMO skills, (ideally including integration / separation programme experience)
   - 
Previous project / PMO experience within FMCG industry
   - 
Business-focused programme experience (i.e.not IT-led or related)

* Technical Skills:
   -  High level of proficiency in MS, especially Powerpoint, Excel, Word and preferably MS Project
   - 
Appropriate PM qualifications (e.g. Prince 2, PMP) 

*  Interpersonal Skills
   -  
The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex and ambiguous environment
   - 
Self-starter, hands-on, impactful, pro-active, dedicated

Interested? 

If this role is of interest to you and you are based in the UK, please send a CV and cover note to roles@b2e-resourcing.co.uk stating: 

* ref DB6155 in the title
* your current salary / daily rate
* your availability
* your specific relevant experience, as outlined in [Key Skills and Requirements] above

FILLED Research and Comms Analyst (DM4288)

Research and Comms Analyst (DM4288)

Financial Services
Interim, 3 months, 
£300, 
Canary Wharf,
Immediate Start

Role Summary

Our sister company, B2E Consulting, is working with a Financial Services Regulator on a Programme of transformation involving engagement with its Clients.

They immediately require a Comms and Business Change Analyst to work with the Business Change and Communications Workstream.

The Comms and Business Change Analyst will be expected to provide briefing papers for Senior Stakeholders, as they attend events with Trade Associations and other  Industry bodies.

Details

 The Comms and Business Change Analyst will be responsible for the following:

* Supporting the compilation of a grid of events.

* Pulling together the final briefing for each event that will be attended.

* Researching background information about the organisations' make-up, turnover and business interests.

* Researching and compiling the policy elements that are most relevant to each engagement.

* Ensuring the communications elements of the briefing are included in the final  document.

* Working with the Comms team to identify other opportunities for speeches and engagement events and provide support to speakers as required.

Key skills and Requirements

* Communications or Public Relations background.

* Strong Research, Analysis, Presentation and Writing Skills (using appropriate tools from MS Office: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio)

* An understanding of the wider context of the Consumer Credit market - able to pose "what if" questions in briefings  

 

 

Thursday, September 26, 2013

FILLED Business Solutions Consultant - Systems (TM6402)

Business Solutions Consultant - Systems [TM6042]
Interim, 6 months,
London Based
to £700 per day 
Immediate start 

Application Deadline:  midday 30th September

Role Summary

Our sister company, B2E Consulting, is working with a Financial Services organisation on a Programme of IT transformation to provide new integrated systems to support  key processes (including consumer credit) within the business. 

They immediately require a Business Solutions Consultant to understand, analyse and document changes to business processes and systems. This will be accomplished by  facilitating effective communication between the business unit(s) stakeholders,  3rd party suppliers and IT in order to define, agree and document a set of business requirements to be used to drive efficient delivery of process change and/or system solutions. 

This is a senior role and will require at least 10 years relevant systems reflated business solutions experience.

Role

This role includes the following activities: 

* Establishing and maintaining agreement between the business customer and solution provider on both functional and non-functional requirements including traceability management across the full project lifecycle

* Develop deep understanding of the business to add value in developing solution  options and problem solving.

* Facilitating effective 2-way communication between IS and the relevant business unit stakeholders.

* Support the process for educating the IS organisation on the direction of the business.

* Position technologies to best meet stakeholder requirements in conjunction with the IS functional teams, and facilitate the adoption of technology-based solutions by business users.

* Foster innovation and be an active contributor to the on-going learning and development of the BA team through knowledge sharing and being an advocate for better practice.

Key Skills and Requirements

Mandatory

* Extensive experience defining/sharing/guiding business requirements and solutions in a systems driven change process

* Senior Business Analyst skills including use case documentation, agile techniques, process mapping, data flow diagramming and workshop facilitation

* Team management and strong stakeholder management

Desirable 

* An understanding of the Financial Markets  Regulatory environment would be a big advantage (ie Consumer Credit)

* Knowledge of case management would be desirable especially using Salesforce.com

 

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

FILLED Senior Business Analyst, FS Regulatory Programme (DB6154)

Senior Business Analyst,
FS Regulatory Business Change Programme
Canary Wharf,
3 months +,
Up to £500 per day  

Role Summary 

Our sister company, B2E Consulting, immediately requires a senior business analyst to work in the regulatory arena of one of its Financial Services clients. 

The role primarily involves defining the business change impact to the organisation of implementing the forthcoming Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV). 

Deadline for response:  9 am Monday 30th September.

Role & Responsibilities 

The overall project is divided into several technical work-streams and a business work-stream that needs to feed into and out of the technical ones. 

The main purpose of this role is to define the changes that need to be made within the organisation to implement this new regulatory approach. 

As such, the deliverables will be: 
  • Target Operating Model - Validation and identification of the project's impact on Operating Model
  • Full Business Case - Assisting the Project Manager with completing the FBS to ensure it has full traceability and compatibility with the changes being delivered
  • Business Impact Assessment - Assessing the impact on the business due to project  delivery failures or delays, and documenting them as per the prescribed template
  • Communications and Training - Identifying any areas that need training and working with them to get them engaged. Bringing together the content for communications and training using knowledge from Supervision, Authorisations, Policy, Legal, European Banking Authority, and ensuring the content is also joined up with counterpart projects.

Key Skills and Requirements 

While these deliverables have more of a business focus, a senior BA that has some technical background and an understanding of regulation would be most desirable. 

The following are essential: 

* Requirements management experience, preferably gained within a regulatory environment

* Process-driven business change experience (e.g. defining TOMS, Comms plans and  materials, organisation impact assessments etc.)

* Top tier consulting or blue chip industry trained with deep financial services  experience  

Interested? 

If this role is of interest to you, please send a CV and cover note to roles@b2e-resourcing.co.uk, stating: 

* your current salary / daily rate
* your availability
* your specific relevant experience, as outlined in [Key Skills and Requirements] above

Monday, September 23, 2013

FILLED Change Planning Consultant (ref DM4287)

Interim Change Manager - Implementation Planning, Financial Services,
Interim - 8 weeks,
Canary Wharf,
Competitive Rate,
Immediate Start  

Role Summary 

Our sister company, B2E Consulting, is working with a Financial Services organisation on a Programme of transformation involving changes to its people, processes, IT culture and behaviour.

They immediately require a Change Implementation Planning Consultant to work with their existing change team to develop and agree a detailed plan of Change Interventions.

The deadline for this role is Noon on 26th September.  Applications received after this time will not be considered in the initial response to the client

Details 

Over the 8-week period the resource will be expected to contribute to the following in relation to the business change for the Programme: 

* Design the change planning workshops including preparing a strawman of change impacts for each of the business areas

* Write sections of the change strategy document and start socialising the first  draft

* Solicit requirements from the business to understand what they are expecting from the programme in terms of business change plan and activity

* Work with the BA team to draw out change impacts from the TOM and FADs - this will input to the change strategy document and change planning workshops

* Help facilitate the change planning workshops and produce output documentation

* Support the development of the business change plan

* Provide additional support as required to the business change workstream  

Key Skills and Requirements

Mandatory

Business Change manager, with multiple experiences of planning and delivering change successfully for large / complex transformation programmes

*  Well rounded change planning experience - covering all aspects of change management: training, comms, procedures, job design, cultural and behaviour change.

 * Able to design and facilitate workshops, achieve consensus and  produce the required outputs

Desirable 

* Financial Services Experience

 

 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

FILLED Change Management Business Analyst, Financial Services (DM4286)

Change Management Analyst,

Financial Services
Interim, 6 months +,
Canary Wharf,
Up to £400,
September Start  

Role Summary

Our sister company, B2E Consulting, is working with a Financial Services Organisation on a multi-channel contact centre implementation. 

They immediately require a business analyst with change management experience in  large systems implementations to provide support on the business change activities (e.g. communication, training) for the implementation. 

Deadline for response: Monday 12 pm 16th September.

Experience & Skills Required

 This is a hands-on business analyst role working to an overall change management  lead.

 The following experience is mandatory:

* Multiple experiences of designing and implementing change management activities in large and complex system implementations

* Strong business analyst, pro-active, influential, impactful, credible

* Top tier consulting or blue chip industry experience Financial services experience would be desirable but not mandatory.

 

 

FILLED Italian Speaking HR Consultants x2 for Italian Corporate Restructuring (ref SP6006)

Italian Speaking Interim HR Consultants x2 for Italian Corporate Restructuring

Interim, initially 3 months,
Milan,
Competitive Rate,
Proposal with start likely in October  
Application Deadline:  Monday 16th Sept, midday

Role Summary 

Our Client is a Private Equity house looking for HR Consultants to work on a Corporate Restructuring in Italy.

The restructuring is in the Field Sales team involving 500 people leaving the organisation as it changes its sales model. 

They are looking for a Senior and a Junior HR Consultant who will have skills in: 

* Organisation Restructure
* Planning the changes
* Communications and Change Management
* Supporting Executives and Employees
* Legal implications and requirements
* Timetabling and execution 

The Senior Consultant will have led at least one large-scale restructuring. 

The Candidates must speak Italian and will preferably be Italian Nationals.

 

 

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

FILLED Marketing Consultant, New proposition marketing (DB6153)

Interim Marketing Consultant,

New Proposition Development
London, 7 months +,
ASAP Start, c
Competitive rate
Response Deadline:  12pm Thursday 12th September
 
Role Summary

Our client immediately requires an interim consultant with strong commercial, research and product marketing skills to work with their Marketing and Sales Director on a strategic project to take a new proposition to market. 

Role & Responsibilities 

Reporting to the Marketing & Sales Director, the marketing consultant will be responsible for 

1. undertaking research which will inform the new proposition.

2. working with other parts of the organisation to analyse data and research to inform the future business development plans.

3. working closely with the Marketing and Sales Director, Head of Business Development, Head of Marketing and Company Actuary to devise pricing, marketing and business development plans aimed at optimising the retention and growth of high value individual and corporate membership in respect of the proposition.

4. implementing plans for the launch of the new proposition including specification of any new materials, additional training, internal organisation changes.

Key skills and Requirements

This is a hands-on, 'doing' role. The right candidate for this role will have: 

* a strong commercial background with experience of product development, sales, pricing and business change in a competitive marketplace.

* a strong numerical competency demonstrated by Maths or Statistics qualifications equivalent to A level or an ACII or accountancy qualification.

* strong interpersonal and presentational skills, being comfortable in dealing with both staff and customers at all levels and capable of working autonomously. 

Ideally the individual will have an MBA.


 

FILLED Business Analyst - Managed Print Service (DM4285)

Business Analyst - Managed Print Services (ref DM4285)

Interim, 3 months,
Canary wharf,
Up to £500, 
September Start  

Role Summary 

This is a role working for our Consultancy Company in a Financial Services Organisation.  The Financial Services Organisation is planning to refresh their on-floor multi-functional devices and printers and to establish a new Managed Print Service. 

The intention is to review business requirements in order to define requirements and then to carry out a tender. 

They require a Consultant to Analyse the requirements for the Managed Print Service

Details 

The activities for this role are: 

* Assess current service: what works, what could be improved
* Liaise with business areas and the IS division to understand their issues and requirements
* Review current market trends
* Produce a document defining requirements  

Key skills and Requirements 

* A Consultant with experience of Managed Print  Services
* Strong Business Analyst skills
* Recent  experience of Requirements gathering

 

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

FILLED- Telecoms Consultants (DM4284)

Telecoms Consultants
PERMANENT, 
Analysts, Project Managers and Process Consultants,
£30,000 to £65,000, 
London and Berkshire.

Role Summary

Our Client is an International Telecoms Consultancy with a growing UK business.  Over the last 12 months they have been particularly successful and are now looking to strengthen their consulting team.
 
There are a number of excellent career opportunities for consultants with experience in the Telecoms Sector to join them on a Permanent basis. They are interested in  consultants with business or technical experience within the Telecoms Sector. 

The roles include  : 

* Process Analysis
* Business Analysis
* Project management
* IT Systems Development Lifecyle - Telecoms Operations
* IT Systems Development Lifecyle - Telecoms Business 

Salary range from £30k to £65k plus bonus plus benefits depending on experience. 

The roles are based in London and will require travel to Berkshire.

Interested? 

If this role is of interest to you, please send a recent CV to david.meggitt@b2e-resourcing.co.uk,
stating: 

* your target Salary for the role
* your availability

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