ServiceNow Functional Specialist, Manager

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At Deloitte we help clients around the world help resolve their most critical information and technology challenges, across the breadth of IT & Digital, from strategy through to implementation and managed services. With a team of more than 1700 people working in Technology in the UK, we bring our passion, experience, and technology skills to bear on our clients most high-profile technology projects.

Our ServiceNow capability is a rapidly growing part of our business. As a ‘Global ServiceNow Partner’ we provide services across all four Partner capacities to our global clients. We transform businesses through the design and implementation of ServiceNow, developing innovative solutions on the platform to tackle our clients most pressing needs. We focus on delivering high value sustainable change and business outcomes and work closely with ServiceNow leadership and product teams to address the future challenges faced by our clients.

As a Senior Manager in our ServiceNow team, you will benefit from a role that gives you the opportunity to build, shape and innovate transformative solutions; leading client relationships and solution delivery as soon as you join. You will broaden your skillset working on complex, transformational solutions across a range of clients and gain valuable experience in developing and building the business across our industries and our consulting network.

Discover more about our ServiceNow capability at https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/alliances/servicenow.html

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In the Functional specialist role, you will partner with our clients and act as the bridge between our business stakeholders and our development teams. Your role will be responsible for leading workstreams within a wider program and the driving the translation of business requirements into functional designs.

Features of your role include:

Solution Delivery

You will play a critical role across client delivery, driving workstream objectives, engaging with business stakeholders and working alongside solution architects to identify, design and deliver ServiceNow solutions that support our clients’ objectives.

• Cultivate and manage client relationships, building trust and eminence across the client architectural stakeholder landscape
• Work with our clients to determine and capture business requirements and translate into functional requirements for the ServiceNow solution
• Provide ServiceNow Subject Matter Expertise, advising and guidance to business stakeholders on business practices and approaches regarding ServiceNow use and its functionality
• Support in testing cycles, able to engage with the testing community and deliver effective testing cycles throughout the programme engagement
• Demonstrate awareness of future road mapped ServiceNow features and functionality, and an understanding of potential impacts to emerging client designs
• Overseeing the development and maintenance of core agile documentation and ceremonies (user stories, product/sprint backlog, sprint reviews etc.)
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts to both non-technical and technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
• Work with business stakeholders and program peers to identify and address implications of target functional designs including considerations across operationality, maintainability, user experience and business change
• Lead specific workstreams within an over overall programme/project in accordance and in adherence with the programme/project plan and align with Programme governance
• Able to identify risk and issues and raise promptly through programme governance
• Develop high quality design and facilitation material, and workshop material and presentation material

Accelerate our Business Development

You will play a vital role to in growing and developing our delivery pipeline, developing new business opportunities, and expanding the firm's client base.

• Support in the development of proposals, able to own key elements of the overall proposal
• Able to support in commercial shaping of propositions, proposals and service offerings

Foster the growth of our people

As a prominent member within our ServiceNow architectural & technical community you will play a significant role in developing our culture and our people in the following ways:

• Provide guidance and support to team members across within program delivery and our op unit
• Mentor and coach team members to help them develop their skills and advance their careers.
• Able to play a key role in our ServiceNow business, shaping our community across our internal pillars

Connect to your skills and professional experience

We are looking for individuals who are confident, experienced and team orientated, bringing their own experiences to strengthen our growing capability. Deloitte works best connected, and we are looking for individuals with the ability to foster relationships across the firm as well as with our clients.

Required experience

• Proven experience working (varying on grade) with ServiceNow in a functional or business analyst role, working on applications including (but not limited to) ITSM, HRSD, iRM, ITOM, and CSM
• Proven track record working in ServiceNow programmes of work for large enterprises including a strong understanding of service management processes including but not limited to IT, HR, Customer, and Finance
• Understanding of the ServiceNow platform, applications and their functionality (forms, flows, rules, integrations etc.) and the business function in which they support
• Proven experience in writing user stories, process documentation and functional specifications
• Understanding of ServiceNow development practices and proficient in all phases of program delivery including Scrum/Agile frameworks
• Able to deliver work independently and manage multiple priorities
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, challenging, and varied environment
• Strong digital transformation experience for tier one clients across multiple industries in an advisory or consultancy capacity.
• Developed presentation skills, with ability to be articulate and explain complex technical solutions across a variety of stakeholder types
• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving and can work without clear instruction
• Enthusiasm and passion for the delivery of market leading solutions that make a difference for our clients
• You must have the possession of security clearance, or ability to receive security clearance

Desirable experience

• Not essential but preferred experience, skills, and certifications:
• Certified ServiceNow System Administrator and Application Developer.
• Certified ServiceNow Implementation (CIS) in 2 or more applications.
• Familiarity with CSDM 5.0
• Experience in ServiceNow reporting, dashboard, performance analytics and platform analytics
• Certified in ITIL v3/4 Foundation or higher certifications.
• Familiarity of project sales cycle, including programme structures, resourcing, and cost modelling

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