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Operational Readiness Manager

BrusselsHybrid40 hours/week3-6months

This assignment involves end-to-end management of the operational readiness for a migration phase within an organization.

What you do

  • Build and monitor the readiness plan, milestones, dependencies, risks, and Go/No-Go criteria
  • Conduct impact and gap analyses on operations, IT, Finance, Legal, Risk, Actuarial, and Customer Service
  • Transform migration impacts into operational processes, controls, and executable procedures
  • Define operational requirements, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria
  • Drive training, knowledge transfer, and target organization setup
  • Define RACI, capabilities, competencies, access, and segregation of duties
  • Manage cutover, business continuity, backup solutions
  • Coordinate stakeholders and ensure executive reporting / Go-No-Go
  • Identify and escalate risks, defects, and client/regulatory impacts, with concrete recommendations
  • Organize the transition to BAU (Business As Usual) and ensure a controlled handover to operational teams

Tools.

  • MS Project
  • Azure DevOps
  • Excel
  • Teams/SharePoint
  • PPM/RAID

Profile

  • Project Manager with 8+ years of experience, including at least 3 years in operational readiness, transformation, or migration within the insurance or financial services sector
  • Confirmed expertise in life insurance operations and policy administration
  • Solid experience in portfolio/data migration, cutover, transition, hyper-care, and BAU handover
  • Proficiency in process design, controls, RACI, operational models, and capacity plans
  • Strong experience in governance, risk management, dependencies, decisions, and stakeholder management
  • Ability to manage business, IT, compliance, risk, finance, and vendor environments
  • Knowledge of Solvency II, IDD, GDPR, AML/Sanctions, and product governance is a plus
  • Excellent leadership, communication, structuring, and crisis management skills
  • Professional French or Dutch + fluent English is mandatory

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