Assistant Manager - Transitions

Role
Overview:

We are
looking for an experienced Assistant Transition Manager to lead and execute end-to-end
service and project transitions, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer, minimal
disruption, and successful handover into steady-state operations. The role
requires strong planning, stakeholder management and governance skills to
manage complex transitions from US to India.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan,
  lead and execute end-to-end transitions for mid to large sized deals,
  ensuring smooth delivery and minimal service disruption.


• Define
  and agree on transition success criteria, outputs, and deliverables with onsite
  and internal stakeholders.


• Prepare
  and manage detailed transition plans and stream-specific activities (e.g.,
  Knowledge Transfer plan, IT applications provisioning for new joiners,
  processes, reporting, current issues/RAID log).


• Lead
  and monitor Knowledge Transfer (KT) with SMEs, ensuring coverage of all
  relevant technical and process areas.


• Measure
  KT and other transition streams success, identifying and addressing gaps
  or risks proactively.


• Provide
  regular status updates and progress reports to all relevant stakeholders,
  including executives and onsite teams.


• Collaborate
  with internal delivery, operations, and onsite teams to drive execution.


• Ensure
  the appropriate documentation of processes transitioned in place,
  including providing a quality review of documentation (Process Maps and
  SOPs)


• Ensure
  successful delivery of transition outputs, including Transition Kick Off,
  Knowledge Transfer, Ramp Up Go Lives, tollgates and the overall
  transition completion


• Identify
  and monitor transition risks and issues, propose and implement corrective
  actions


• Provide
  general transition management expertise and advice


• Conduct
  go/no-go assessments and facilitate successful service acceptance into
  steady-state operations.


• Capture
  and share lessons learned, contributing to the organizations transition to
  best practices and methodologies.

Key Skills:

• Excellent
  communication (verbal written) and presentation skills.


• Strong
  stakeholder management (internal external) and client-facing skills.
  


• Proficiency
  in risk management, decision-making, and judgment under pressure.


• Leadership
  and people management abilities to drive cross-functional collaboration.


• Strong
  quality compliance, governance, and reporting discipline.


• Ability
  to handle conflict resolution and escalation management effectively.

Requirements:

• 10?15
  years of experience, with at least 5+ years in non-IT transition
  management.


• Proven
  success in leading mid-sized to large scale transitions from US and/or
  different countries to India.


• Hands-on
  experience in knowledge transfer planning, service migration and client
  onboarding.


• Should
  have strong critical-thinking capabilities to solve problems and think
  about wide-ranging issues and facilitate decisions

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