Senior Project Manager

Description:

Senior Project Manager, Migration, Software, Andover to £80,000 Pro-rata, 6 month fixed term (Hybrid)

This is a great role for a Senior Project Manager to join an exciting Software company in a fixed role and to be part of their growth journey. An experienced is required Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of one of the most significant implementations in their portfolio: a large-scale, multi-site rollout of a financial management software for a major institutional customer.

This is a fast-paced, high-profile programme delivered through a phased, pilot-then-wave approach, offering immediate ownership of a complex, multi-stakeholder delivery in order to meet critical end-of-life customer timeframes.

Responsibilities

* Own end-to-end delivery governance for a large-scale, multi-site software implementation, from mobilisation through pilot, wave rollout, hypercare and transition to steady-state support.

* Lead a stage-gated delivery lifecycle.

* Chair and report into project governance forums, including a joint project board, managing escalation routes from workstream leads.

* Own weekly status reporting covering milestones, risks, issues, budget and decisions, and maintain the master delivery plan and critical path.

* Maintain a RAID log with clear ownership, mitigations and target dates, escalating appropriately.

* Coordinate a blended delivery team spanning technical, data migration, integration, testing, training and support functions located both locally in the UK and in Australia.

* Build and sustain strong senior stakeholder relationships on the customer side, and coordinate with third-party and managed service partners where relevant.

* Oversee data migration planning and onboarding across a substantial number of operational sites.

* Track commercial milestones against the agreed delivery and payment schedule.

* Run structured lessons-learned sessions and oversee knowledge transfer at each stage of delivery.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

* Proven experience delivering complex, multi-site software implementations, ideally in the education, public sector or financial systems space.

* Experience with stage-gated or phased delivery methodologies.

* Strong stakeholder management, governance and reporting skills, comfortable operating at the project board level.

* Experience managing contractual scope, RAID logs, change control processes and multiworkstream delivery teams across multiple time zones.

* Familiarity with financial systems, ERP, and/or Fee Management software implementations is an advantage.

* Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile PM) desirable.

* Possession of HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard, or equivalent, as a minimum (Note if you do not currently hold these clearances, there will be a requirement to attain these upon commencement).

* Available for an immediate start.

This is a contract position with an immediate start and an initial duration of 6 months, with the possibility of extension