Engagement Manager

Location: Staines, Surrey - flex with this

Length: 12 Months

Rate: up to £565.55 per day (Inside IR35)

Hours: 40 Hours per week

Role Overview:

The Senior Engagement Manager oversees the on time, on budget delivery of the defined solution scope to meet the customer's desired results. This requires the EM to complete the project following clients leading practice methodology, NowCreate, working in collaboration with the customer project team and any involved partner, ensuring governance is followed to gain team member support for the project, including risk and issue mitigation. The EM is also responsible for assembling and leading the clients’ resources on the project making sure they understand the planned tasks, tracking actual progress, and managing deviations through appropriate measures.

· Lead the delivery team throughout the engagement, often in collaboration with a services partner.

· Manage the engagement governance, timeline, scope, risk, change management, resourcing, reporting, and financials.

· Work with the Sales Account Team, partner, and customer to understand the customer and the engagement; including challenges, partners, issues, and value being delivered.

· Understand the goals and align the deliverables accordingly.

· Apply expertise from the Now Create methodology and prescriptive guidance to promote delivery of the engagement, including long-term customer success.

· Be the single contact to encourage collaboration and customer agreement on proposed solutions.

· Mentor Customer Outcomes or Partner team members to achieve the engagement's deliverables and promote the customer's desired results.

· Lead the delivery team throughout large complex engagements, often in collaboration with a services partner.

· Identify gaps between actuals and plan of record, proposing solutions and driving resolutions.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry.
• 8+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization
• Experience in managing the implementation of workflow or business transformation solutions
• Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
• Creativity with comfort running projects independently
• Experience working collaboratively ServiceNow certifications in aligned workflow preferred but not essential
• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Industry domain expertise in workflow