Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR who are a leading global engineering, construction, and services company.
KBR support the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents. Serving their customers through diverse business units, KBR offer challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.
1.JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary: Role is to lead Supply Chain transition during the mobilisation and post-mobilisation ‘hypercare’ of a multi-software platform for a new UK Facilities Management Integrator (FMI) contract for KBR Government Services (GS EMEA). Role is a hybrid that will require excellent project management skills aligned to proven aptitude for managing suppliers through operational transition from an ‘as-is’ to a ‘to-be’ state, deploying good stakeholder management and building collaborative relationships that recognise appetite and aptitude for transition may vary; role will involve specifying and creating transition approach that must recognise supply chain providers not be homogenous entities with respects to current state (some existing, some new, some future that will require the approach to be fit to ‘onboard’ new and ‘offboard’ exiting supplier), operational and technical capability and resource bandwidth; transition approach must recognise and interact with KBR mobilisation resources responsible for development and data migration, integration testing, user system training to develop and deliver the plan to deliver supply chain through the transition with minimal operational volatility
Job Title: Supply Chain Transition Lead (Project Manager)
Job Code: SIPM030
Role Type: CONTRACT
Contract Duration: 4 months minimum
Contract Rate: £475-525 depending on relevant experience
Reports to: Senior Project Manager
Location: Remote/peripatetic with requirement to spend some time at KBR Leatherhead site, and Authority Supply Chain Member locations around England
2. Qualifications, Experience and Skills
Qualifications:
Essential:
1. Hold, have held or eligible to apply for security clearance to BPSS and CTC (if required)
2. Project Management qualification such as: APM – PFQ, PMQ; PMI PMP
3. A Full, Clean Driving Licence
Desirable:
4. PRINCE2 Practitioner
5. Certification in Agile PM
6. Certified Scrum Master
Experience and Skills:
Essential:
7. Will have managed a large-scale supply chain transition to a fixed mobilisation deadline, including data migration, integration/functional regression testing, training and post-transition support
8. Highly proficient at stakeholder management, particular incentivising supply chain to meet deadlines where there may be reduced appetite to do so
9. ‘Self-starter’, capable of using initiative and being flexible whilst understanding the tolerances/boundaries that necessitate escalation
10. Capable of establishing working relationships based on mutual trust and respect, avoiding micro-management unless fundamental to mitigate a defined risk
11. Proficient (intermediate or above) in Smartsheet: capable of delivering a properly resourced plan for single or multiple subprojects, be able to identify resource constraints/under-utilisation, and use planning tools to achieve an optimum critical path
12. Capable at organising and running effective governance from ad hoc checkpoints to fixed project governance with audiences of both internal and external stakeholders (clients and suppliers), ensuring clear objectives are set, proper attendance is derived to meet objectives, clear agenda is agreed and delivered, and governance achieves it
13. Track record of demonstrating sound commercial awareness, able to determine and manage scope, change to scope, and able to strike a meaningful balance between client flexibility and adherence to protecting profit margin
14. Good written, oral, comprehension and presentational skills to enable effective communication with customers and management in any format or forum
15. In depth knowledge of IT systems including a general knowledge of software development and software and hardware architecture.
16. Knowledge of system interfaces and proven experience in delivering these interfaces, especially API interfaces
17. Proven ability to influence others and explain how systems work, especially to non-IT literate audiences
Desirable:
18. Experience of delivering a mobilisation of a new contract to a fixed service commencement date
19. Experience of preparing and delivering MS PowerPoint presentations to senior stakeholders
20. Experience of collaborating in a MS Teams environment
21. Knowledge of the Facilities Management industry
22. Experience of delivering projects to or for public sector clients
3. Core Responsibilities and Duties
Working within the mobilisation team, the Supply Chain Transition Lead will be responsible for:
23. Creating and owning the overarching Supply Chain Strategy and approach, which must consider how the current and future supply chain can be transitioned from their current operational state to the ‘target’ operational state by service commencement, acknowledging how flexible approaches must be designed to cover business process training, data migration, integration testing, functional regression testing, system training and hypercare/post-transition elevated support to ensure transition to BAU can be objectively assessed as complete by checking defined exit criteria with each supply chain member
24. Designing the Supply Chain transition plan for inclusion into the wider technical mobilisation plan, ensuring this is fully resourced, all dependencies are considered and accepted, and the plan is deliverable
25. Delivering the Supply Chain transition plan, including but not limited to creating and leading governance with Supply Chain, managing transition tasks and milestones, and working collaboratively with KBR mobilisation team (especially senior PM, data migration lead, test lead, system training manager) to ensure transition is delivered
26. Ensuring post-mobilisation transition to BAU is managed through hypercare, including snagging and delivering each supplier through exit criteria for transition
27. Ensuring the post-mobilisation forward plan for future transition is defined, resourced and baselined
28. Ensuring transition deliverables and products are maintained via strict change control and versioning on all materials
29. (to be defined depending on Authority procurement timelines) delivering post-mobilisation transition of supply chain, onboarding new supplier and offboarding outgoing suppliers to agreed entry/exit criteria
30. Ensuring all supply chain transition products are stored centrally on mobilisation team site and migrated to enduring site where applicable