IT Project Manager (Security/Infrastructure)

Wilson & Sterling Consulting; Brussel; Hybrid; EUR 92,000 - 166,000; Part time

Job summary

Wilson & Sterling Consulting is seeking an IT Project Manager (Security/Infrastructure) for a long-term freelance assignment in Brussels, delivering work two days per week. You will own multiple infrastructure and workplace projects, collaborate with internal IT teams, external partners, and senior stakeholders.

This role requires a delivery-focused mindset, end-to-end governance, planning and execution, and strong ability to manage scope, budget, and timelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT/infrastructure project delivery.
• Experience leading end-to-end infrastructure/workplace transformations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure and workplace projects.
• Define scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and budgets.
• Establish plans, baselines, milestones and delivery commitments.
• Manage technical workstreams across internal teams and external partners.
• Maintain scope and change control; govern additional requirements.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.
• Coordinate resources across multiple disciplines.
• Navigate stage-gate and project approval processes.
• Work with IT, Security, Risk, Privacy to ensure governance.
• Produce clear reporting for senior management.

Skills

Project management

Infrastructure knowledge

Stakeholder management

Change control

Resource management

Risk management

Tools

PRINCE2

PMI/ PMP

Job description

Our client, a leading Insurance provider across Belgium, is urgently seeking an IT Project Manager (Security/Infrastructure) to work on a long-term freelance project, delivered 2 days a week from Brussels.

The successful candidate will take ownership of several infrastructure and workplace-related projects, working across internal IT teams, group-level technical teams, external partners and senior stakeholders.

This is not a coordination-focused Project Manager position. We are looking for someone with a strong project delivery mindset who can take projects from initiation through governance, planning and execution to successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple IT Infrastructure and Workplace projects.
• Define and control project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and budgets.
• Establish project plans, baselines, milestones and delivery commitments.
• Manage technical workstreams across internal teams, external suppliers and group-level infrastructure teams.
• Maintain strong scope and change control, ensuring additional requirements are appropriately assessed and governed rather than informally added to projects.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, actions and decisions.
• Coordinate technical resources and SMEs across multiple infrastructure disciplines.
• Navigate formal stage-gate and project approval processes.
• Manage internal governance involving IT, Security, Risk, Privacy/DPO and other control functions.
• Support external governance and regulatory requirements where required.
• Produce clear project reporting for senior management and project stakeholders.
• Manage technical and business stakeholders across different organisational levels.
• Coordinate with other Project Managers delivering interconnected workstreams within larger transformation programmes.
• Ensure projects transition effectively into operational/BAU environments following successful delivery.

Infrastructure Project Experience:

should have strong experience delivering projects across several of the following areas:

• Workplace / End-User Computing transformation
• Active Directory migration, integration or transformation
• VDI / Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
• Microsoft 365 / M365 transformation and migration
• File, shared drive and personal drive migrations
• Network infrastructure projects
• Server / systems infrastructure
• Infrastructure migration and integration projects
• Telephony / Unified Communications transformation

Security Experience – Advantageous

Exposure to infrastructure-related security projects would be highly beneficial, particularly:

• Encryption
• Identity & Access Management
• Infrastructure security
• Network security
• Security controls and remediation
• Security transformation programmes

Security experience is advantageous, but the primary requirement is strong Infrastructure / Workplace Project Management experience.

Governance & Project Delivery

A key requirement for this position is the ability to operate within a structured project delivery environment.

Candidates should demonstrate experience with:

• Project initiation and scope definition
• Budget and timeline management
• Project baselining
• Change and scope control
• RAID management
• Resource and dependency management
• Stage-gate approvals
• Project governance
• Steering committees
• Senior management reporting
• Risk and compliance stakeholders
• Formal project closure and handover

Experience working with structured methodologies such as: PRINCE2, PMI/PMP or equivalent enterprise project management frameworks would be advantageous.

Required Experience

• 5+ years’ experience managing IT/Infrastructure projects.
• Proven delivery of complex infrastructure and/or workplace transformation projects.
• Strong technical understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Experience managing multiple technical teams and SMEs.
• Strong project governance and change-control experience.
• Ability to manage projects against defined scope, time and budget.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies and competing stakeholder requirements.
• Excellent communication and reporting capabilities.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively and prevent uncontrolled scope creep.
• Comfortable operating within complex matrix organisations.
• Ability to collaborate with other Project Managers across interconnected projects and programmes.

Ideal Profile

We are particularly interested in someone who combines technical infrastructure understanding with strong project leadership.

You may have started your career in infrastructure, systems, networking or another technical IT discipline before moving into Project Management, or you may be an experienced Project Manager who has developed significant technical infrastructure expertise through delivering complex transformation programmes.

You do not need to be the technical engineer performing the implementation.

However, you must understand the technical environment sufficiently to lead the people who are.

The successful candidate will be structured and delivery-focused while remaining highly communicative, collaborative and comfortable working with both technical specialists and senior business stakeholders.