Senior Salesforce Migration Lead – Go-Live Feb, Hybrid

Project Manager Jobs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Manager Jobs in Manchester is seeking a senior Programme Manager to own a critical Salesforce migration. The role focuses on data migration, cutover planning and business readiness to ensure a February go-live.

You’ll manage workstream leads, engage with board-level stakeholders and shape a governance plan for phase two and hypercare. The role is hybrid with 2-3 days on-site in Manchester, designed for delivery certainty and robust governance across the programme lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Programme Manager owning delivery of a Salesforce implementation or CRM migration.
• Experience taking over a programme in difficulty and bringing it back under control.
• Strong grasp of data migration, cutover planning and go-live risk.
• Experience of business readiness: training, comms and change management.
• Comfortable managing workstream owners and working with senior stakeholders up to board level.
• Outside IR35, with clearly defined deliverables.
• 3-6 months initially, go-live in February; phase two and hypercare planning.
• Hybrid working: 2-3 days on-site in Manchester; some flexibility for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of a programme that’s behind schedule and bringing structure, grip and confidence to it.
• Managing the data migration workstream lead and keeping the migration plan on track.
• Creating and owning the cutover plan, which currently has no defined owner.
• Owning business readiness (training, communications and change) and coordinating small teams.
• Ensuring readiness for a February go-live and driving the UAT to a clean close.
• Scoping and sizing any descoped work into a phase two and hypercare plan.
• Supporting reshaping of the wider technology function for post-go-live handover.

Skills

Programme Mgmt

Salesforce CRM

Data migration

Cutover planning

Stakeholder mgmt

Change management

Job description

Project Manager Jobs in Manchester is seeking a senior Programme Manager to own a critical Salesforce migration. The role focuses on data migration, cutover planning and business readiness to ensure a February go-live.

You’ll manage workstream leads, engage with board-level stakeholders and shape a governance plan for phase two and hypercare. The role is hybrid with 2-3 days on-site in Manchester, designed for delivery certainty and robust governance across the programme lifecycle.