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Project Manager - Application Packaging & Virtual Desktop Migration Initial 12 month contract role - Inside ir35 Hybrid in the Preston/Manchester Area Key Responsibilities Lead the planning and delivery of application packaging and virtual desktop migration projects. Manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, and governance reporting. Coordinate packaging, testing, deployment, migration waves, and operational transition activities. Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party suppliers. Manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely resolution and escalation where required. Ensure delivery meets agreed quality standards, governance requirements, and business expectations. Produce regular status reports and present progress to senior stakeholders and project boards. Support business readiness and ensure a smooth transition into operational support. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience delivering IT infrastructure, application migration, or End User Computing projects. Strong project planning, governance, and RAID management experience. Excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills. Experience coordinating testing, deployment, and operational transition activities. Knowledge of project delivery methodologies such as PRINCE2, Agile, or Waterfall. Desirable Experience Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Application Packaging (MSIX, App Attach). Microsoft Endpoint and Modern Workplace technologies. ITIL or Service Management environments. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in delivering a business-critical transformation programme, working across technology and business teams to ensure successful migration and adoption of modern workplace solutions. please feel free to apply via this add or email on (url removed) GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Key roles and responsibilities As the Business change and adoption lead, you will have a number of challenging responsibilities including: Engagement : Work with the programme team to align on the "case for change", the "Why", "What" and "how" Engage with senior stakeholders to articulate the programme vision and end state Storytelling and ability to manage senior stakeholders through the deployment timelines Create and execute a plan of engaging the regional leads to drive local transformations Build and develop a sponsor coalition and a change network who embrace the change and help their colleagues to do the same Define the change and adoption approach for the digital transformation Ability to pre-empt resistance and manage their reduction Adoption responsibilities Define the KPIs which determine success and benchmark what good looks, considering lead and lag indicators for success Report against these metrics to the programme team and create targeted action plans for areas in need of more support Manage and monitor deployments and their success, implementing action plans and mitigations User Experience Research Identify the need for user research and the key personas needed to be engaged Turn research findings into tangible outputs, whether training assets, targeted communication or more focussed business engagement Marketing and branding Ability to visualise, imagine and think beyond existing ways of working Develop innovative and fun ways to introduce the product using concepts from marketing and branding Create eye catching content, be bold and brave in trying out new ideas, colours, concepts Ability to use in-house social media channels to promote campaigns Run a hybrid mix of digital and face to face customer contact sessions to excite and educate Explore the use of AI to introduce cutting edge marketing and branding thinking Training Lead the creation of a range of training channels and content, and ensure the business is set-up to embrace the change. From self-led, classroom-based to on-demand learning, byte sized and gamification we need to cater for all kinds of behavioural learning preferences Communications Create a multi channel, flexible and scalable communication approach, identifying key messages, communications channels and finding the balance between end-user scale and end-user impact Programme & People Leadership, Problem solving Work closely with programme team and market leadership teams to agree deployment timelines, sequencing, inclusions and exclusions Attend regular stand-ups, be responsive, prompt and collaborative in approach Anticipate and remove roadblocks to delivery. Ask questions when you do not understand, take ownership of problems and escalate when needed (remaining calm, knowing when to escalate, escalates with possible solutions) Manage Risks and Issues through appropriate tracking and involving key members of the programme/project team as appropriate. Develops communication and reporting strategy, coordinates between project teams for progress reviews, key decisions, documentation and approvals. Proactively and effectively manages own time and workload, advocates to team the importance of project pace to achieve successful delivery Keeps focus on the medium and long term goals and the Group's values particularly when under short term pressure Knowledge Change management expertise - In depth appreciation of human-centric change, how to make change happen, story telling Ability to see stories beyond numbers, comfort with large data sets and distilling key information / messaging from complex data High level understanding project management methodologies and tools Understanding of banking / and understanding of how change drives benefits for , its customers and other stakeholders Experience Experience of managing change within a global digital transformation programme Experience of working in a banking environment, matrix organisation and change projects Evidence of strong communication and influencing skills Good verbal and written communication skills Capabilities Grit, resilience and ability to push through and complete the job at pace Resourceful, build partnerships, trusted relationships and managing resistance Change management, storytelling, stakeholder engagement Content creation, disruptive marketing, use of social media for promotions / campaigns, basics of brandings Use of AI to drive product adoption, customer reach, innovative campaigns, use cases and adoption analytics Dealing with ambiguity and structured thinking / analytical skills Independent decision Making Leading self and Others Critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The position works closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners. In this role, you will: Build and maintain cloud-native platform services supporting the IDAM 2.0 programme. Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform components. Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated deployments. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows. Manage cloud networking, connectivity and platform security. Implement platform observability including logging, monitoring, metrics and distributed tracing. Automate platform provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks. Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and supporting services. Implement secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation. Configure service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication. Manage ingress, API gateways and network routing components. Implement platform resilience, backup, disaster recovery and high availability capabilities. Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms. Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security, governance and regulatory requirements. Optimise platform performance, scalability and cost efficiency. Develop operational tooling, scripts and self-service capabilities. Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Collaborate with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver secure platform services. Contribute to platform standards, operational documentation and runbooks. Support environment management across development, test, pilot and production environments. Drive continuous improvement through automation and platform engineering best practices. To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements: Key Skills & Experience Essential Skills Cloud Platform Engineering (GCP) Kubernetes Administration Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) CI/CD Pipelines GitOps Linux Administration Networking and Load Balancing Service Mesh Technologies (Istio/Envoy) Container Platforms Secrets Management PKI and Certificate Management Workload Identity Observability (Logging, Monitoring and Tracing) Scripting and Automation DevSecOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Performance and Capacity Management Operational Support Global Deployment Strategies Positive can-do attitude adept at solutionising in large, complex organisations GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Are you passionate about Trading Cards, TCGs, collectibles and creative product development? We are seeking a Product Development Associate to support the creation of innovative trading card products and packaging for leading entertainment brands. Working with creative teams, licensees and stakeholders, you will help take products from concept through to approval, ensuring strong design execution, brand alignment and timely delivery. Product Development Associate - Trading Cards & TCGs Location: London Once a week In office Contract: Project Hire Inside IR35 Duration : 12 months Initially Key Responsibilities: Support product and packaging development projects. Review creative submissions and provide feedback. Coordinate approvals, assets and project timelines. Research trends across gaming, collectibles and consumer products. Ensure products meet creative and brand standards. Skills & Experience: 2+ years' experience in Product Development, Graphic Design or a related creative role. Strong understanding of design principles and visual storytelling. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photo shop, Illustrator, InDesign). Excellent organisation, communication and project coordination skills. Experience with licensing, entertainment, toys, games or collectibles is desirable. Ready to bring your creativity to the world of Trading Cards and collectibles? Apply now to be considered for this exciting London-based contract opportunity. GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.