TOM Project Lead
🚀 TOM Project Lead🚀
3 Months | £445 per day | Fully Remote | Outside IR35
🔧 The Role
A large, international professional and financial services organisation is seeking an Interim Target Operating Model Lead to provide urgent, hands-on analytical support to the IT Director on a critical and delayed IT Target Operating Model (TOM) programme.
The organisation has grown rapidly through acquisition and operates across multiple countries, resulting in a complex, federated IT landscape that is now being centralised into a group-wide operating model.
This role exists because the IT Director is completely bandwidth-constrained and needs immediate support to move the TOM from “napkin stage” into a fully defined, data-backed operating model and transition plan.
This is a tactical, non-leadership, delivery-heavy analyst role — ideal for someone who loves Excel, data, and bringing structure to ambiguity. You’ll be embedded directly with senior leadership, owning the data and models that underpin key IT decisions.
💡 Key Focus Areas
- Build and maintain a single, trusted view of the IT Target Operating Model
- Analyse and document “as-is” IT services, roles, headcount, reporting lines, and skills
- Develop and manage complex Excel models to support TOM design and transition planning
- Support financial modelling, cost impacts, and end-state scenarios
- Track and support the movement of people during the TOM execution phase
- Provide clear, decision-ready data and insight to senior IT leadership
- Coordinate inputs across IT, HR, recruitment, and transformation teams
- Support and facilitate working sessions and workshops as needed
- Keep data accurate and current in a fast-moving, incomplete-information environment
🧠 What We’re Looking For
- 4–5+ years’ experience in data analysis, TOM modelling, or operating model work
- Strong, hands-on Excel modelling capability (essential)
- Experience supporting business, IT, or service transformation initiatives
- Background in financial services or professional services is highly desirable
- Comfortable working autonomously in a high-trust, high-urgency environment
- Confident engaging with senior stakeholders to validate and challenge data
- Experience with IT service models or organisational design is a strong plus
- Analytical, structured, and pragmatic — not a consultant, not a lead, but a doer
- Calm under pressure and able to turn ambiguity into clarity fast
📌 The Details
- Contract Length: 3 months (budget-driven, with potential extension subject to review)
- Location: Fully remote
- Start Date: ASAP (they needed this yesterday)
- Interview Process: One stage, directly with the IT Director
- Focus: Rapid TOM definition, data clarity, and transition planning under tight timelines
📣 Why This Role?
This is a high-impact, high-visibility assignment where your work directly enables senior decision-making at group level. If you enjoy being the person who brings order to chaos, lives in Excel, and quietly saves programmes from stalling — this one’s for you.