Migration Project Manager

Avance Consulting; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Migration Project Manager to oversee a portfolio of technical migration projects. This client-facing role requires strong leadership and analytical skills to manage a distributed team and ensure projects meet time, quality, and budget requirements. You'll be responsible for developing comprehensive project plans, managing risks, and facilitating communication with stakeholders. If you are a self-starter with a passion for driving continuous improvement and have experience in large-scale migration projects, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience required.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of migration projects ensuring quality and budget.
• Identify and manage risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Education

Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

The Migration Project Manager (Level 2) is responsible for the day-to-day management a portfolio of migration projects to contracted time, quality, and budget requirements.

This role will support the Global Head of Migrations in the delivery of technical migration projects, managing a distributed team of migration SMEs in multiple locations.

The role requires strong planning skills, ability to make solution based recommendations based on proactive identification, management and resolution of risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.

This is a client-facing role and requires the ability to build strong relationships with customers, often at a senior level.

Your responsibilities:

Delivery Management

Support the delivery of the migration projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation.

Develop and maintain an end-to-end portfolio plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget and quality criteria.

Input into the overall estimating process for the migration projects and working collaboratively with the Migration SMEs to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets.

Provide timely, precise, accurate and comprehensive project MI and reporting to the Global Head of Migrations

Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies through the full project lifecycle. Ensure mitigation plans are in place for all risks and issues, making fact based recommendations to the Global Head of Migrations to facilitate the correct mitigation plans.

Support migration operational readiness planning, communicating with the appropriate stakeholders to facilitate dependency management and planning.

Facilitate post implementation review and take responsibility for ensuring that lessons learned are captured and shared with the rest of the PM community.

Lead, manage and motivate a virtual team in multiple geographic locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery.

Provide coaching, advice and support performance management with line managers where necessary.

Ensure a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements.

Is an active member of the PM community, contributing to team sessions and central improvement initiatives, and sharing best practice and lessons learned.

This role is in scope for activities which have an indirect impact on CASS processing which takes place within Customer or Customers end clients. This role has a requirement to remain up to date with CASS developments and changes as communicated with Customer.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

Degree qualified or equivalent experience

Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail

Self-starter, able to work independently.

Strong leadership skills.

Good communication skills and capable of working with customers and internal staff.

Experience of managing stakeholders to executive levels.

Expert in Microsoft Project

Previous experience in large scale data or asset migration projects and data modelling preferred.

Has to be technically hands on

Business change / market understanding of the End-to-End migration process in a Life and Pensions settings

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