IT Mobilisation & Bid Manager

The Vacancy

IT Mobilisation & Bid Manager 🚀

Location: Finsbury Park (London) 📍

Travel: National across the UK 🚆

Create tomorrow together. Join our WPS business to lead the technology side of complex contract mobilisations—bringing people, platforms and processes together so our customers get a seamless start from day one. You’ll head up a talented team of Project Managers and Business Analysts, own the IT mobilisation plan end‑to‑end, and represent IT at every key forum from kick‑off to go‑live and hypercare.

What you’ll lead 🧭

• Mobilisation leadership: Own milestones, dependencies and stage‑gates through go‑live and post‑go‑live support. 🔄🗓️
• People leadership: Line‑manage PMs and BAs—setting objectives, coaching delivery excellence, and building a high‑performing practice. 👥🌱
• Systems & integrations: Oversee configuration and integrations between WPS platforms and client/supplier systems (APIs, file exchanges), ensuring data quality, security and performance. 🔗🛡️📊
• Stakeholder engagement: Build trusted relationships with clients, suppliers and internal teams; chair design reviews, readiness forums and cutover command centres. 🤝🧩

What you’ll do 💼

• Be the IT voice at mobilisation kick‑offs and steering groups—clarifying dependencies, risks and decisions. 🎤🧭
• Coordinate all IT workstreams—systems changes, data, training, go‑live and hypercare delivered safely, on time and to client satisfaction. ✅🧰👩‍🏫🚀🛟
• Support bids and tenders: Review tender packs, shape robust IT responses, and represent IT in client demos and interviews. 📝🏆💬
• Governance & risk: Enforce mobilisation standards, provide risk/issue updates, and ensure accurate reporting to programme and senior forums. 🧭📈🛑
• Continuously improve: Maintain and evolve the IT mobilisation process—playbooks, templates and document libraries—embedding lessons learned for consistency and quality. ♻️📚✍️
• Resource planning: Identify and secure the right blend of PM, BA and SME support for each mobilisation. 🧩📆

What you’ll bring 🔧

• Proven IT mobilisation delivery with end‑to‑end accountability. 🥇
• Strong technical grounding: Systems integration, data migration, non‑functional readiness, UAT and cutover/hypercare experience. 🔗🗄️⚙️🧪
• Bid expertise: Tender reviews, solution authoring, demo preparation and delivery. 📑🎯
• Excellent communication: Able to influence diverse stakeholders and translate technical decisions for non‑technical audiences. 🗣️🤝
• Qualifications: Degree or equivalent; PRINCE2/Agile; ITIL foundation desirable; knowledge of ISO 27001/GDPR. 🎓📜🔐
• Behaviours: Calm under pressure, accountable, collaborative, curious, and consistently customer‑focused. 💙🧘‍♀️🤝🔄👥

Nice to have 🌟

• Experience with WPS applications or working in the construction sector. 🏗️

Ready to make your mark? ✨

Apply today and help us deliver technology mobilisations that just work for our people, our partners, and our customers.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.