IT Project Manager
GCS Recruitment
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Job summary
GCS Recruitment is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a strategic Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration and Active Directory Trust implementation. Hybrid role in Manchester/Preston for a 12-month contract, with a daily rate of GBP 290-330.
You will coordinate internal teams, stakeholders, and suppliers to deliver complex migrations across AD Trusts, Identity, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Teams.
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering large-scale Microsoft 365 migration programmes.
- Experience leading tenant-to-tenant migration projects.
- Strong understanding of Active Directory, Entra ID, and identity management.
- Experience with Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, and OneDrive migrations.
- Strong stakeholder, supplier, and executive management skills.
- Governance, RAID, risk, and dependency management experience.
- Background delivering infrastructure, cloud, or digital workplace transformation projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the migration programme.
- Manage project plans, milestones, RAID logs, and reporting.
- Coordinate technical and business workstreams.
- Manage suppliers and delivery partners.
- Lead governance forums, steering groups, and stakeholder engagement.
- Oversee testing, pilot migrations, cutover planning, and go-live readiness.
- Support business change, communications, and user adoption activities.
- Ensure successful transition into operational support.
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Job description
Location: Hybrid / Manchester/Preston
Contract: 12 Months
Rate: GBP 290-330/day
We're seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a strategic Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration and Active Directory Trust implementation programme.
You’ll be responsible for coordinating internal teams, business stakeholders, and third-party suppliers to deliver a complex migration covering:
- Active Directory Trusts
- Identity Migration
- Exchange Online
- SharePoint Online
- OneDrive
- Microsoft Teams
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the migration programme
- Manage project plans, milestones, RAID logs, and reporting
- Coordinate technical and business workstreams
- Manage suppliers and delivery partners
- Lead governance forums, steering groups, and stakeholder engagement
- Oversee testing, pilot migrations, cutover planning, and go-live readiness
- Support business change, communications, and user adoption activities
- Ensure successful transition into operational support
- Proven experience delivering large-scale Microsoft 365 migration programmes
- Experience leading tenant-to-tenant migration projects
- Strong understanding of Active Directory, Entra ID, and identity management
- Experience with Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, and OneDrive migrations
- Strong stakeholder, supplier, and executive management skills
- Excellent governance, RAID, risk, and dependency management experience
- Background delivering infrastructure, cloud, or digital workplace transformation projects
- Experience with Active Directory Trust implementations
- Utilities or regulated industry experience
- PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, or similar project management certification
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