IT Project Manager

Location: UK Based (Travel onsite when required)

Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)

Duration: 6 months initially (extension for 12 months)

Our financial services client is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead a significant HR technology integration programme.

The primary focus of the role will be to oversee the migration of HR systems into the clients existing technology landscape and operating model, ensuring alignment with established governance frameworks, Centres of Excellence, and business processes.

This is a high-profile transformation programme involving substantial data migration, stakeholder management, and coordination across multiple business and technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of HR systems into the clients technology estate.
• Ensure alignment with company's governance, controls, and operating frameworks.
• Coordinate large-scale HR data migration activities and associated downstream impacts.
• Work closely with Centres of Excellence and key business stakeholders across both organisations.
• Manage dependencies across technology, business change, and operational teams.
• Build and lead a small project team (approximately three direct resources).
• Drive programme delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring risks, issues, and dependencies are actively managed.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and communication at all levels of the organisation.
• Support both technical implementation and wider business change activities.

Required Experience

Essential

• Proven experience delivering large-scale technology integration or migration programmes.
• Strong IT Project Management background with exposure to both technology and business change initiatives.
• Experience building, developing, and leading project teams.
• Ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and navigate organisational change.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management, and project controls.
• Experience coordinating large-scale data migration activities.

Desirable

• Previous experience with HR technology platforms and HR systems transformations.
• Exposure to mergers, acquisitions, or post-acquisition integration programmes.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments with multiple Centres of Excellence.

Personal Profile

The successful candidate will be:

• Highly adaptable and flexible.
• Resilient and comfortable operating within complex and sometimes challenging environments.
• An excellent communicator capable of influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Commercially aware with a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Comfortable balancing strategic objectives with hands-on delivery requirements.

Team Structure

• Project Manager leading the programme.
• Supported by a team of approximately three project resources.
• Extensive interaction with business, HR, technology, governance, and transformation stakeholders.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.