Senior Project Manager - Build to Run Transition
Pathway Search · Sydney NSW ·
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Contract Senior Project Manager (6 months, renewable) based in Sydney or Melbourne to lead a build-to-run transition, handing over IT service and operations from an incumbent build partner to an incoming operate partner. Day to day involves scoping the transition workplan, running knowledge-transfer sessions, and tracking progress in Jira and Confluence using Agile and Waterfall.
Senior Project Manager
Contract Length: 6 month renewable
Location: Sydney or Melbourne
We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead the transition from build to run, managing the handover of technology operations from the incumbent build partner to the incoming operate partner.
Key Responsibilities
Contract Length: 6 month renewable
Location: Sydney or Melbourne
We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead the transition from build to run, managing the handover of technology operations from the incumbent build partner to the incoming operate partner.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the transition of IT Service and IT Operations including code repository handover and process transfer
- Design, schedule, and run structured knowledge-transfer sessions between outgoing and incoming delivery partners
- Define and scope the transition workplan where documentation or handover artifacts are incomplete or non-existent
- Engage with stakeholders to capture lessons learned in previous migrations
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across onshore and offshore teams, and across incumbent/incoming vendors
- Support the delivery team's shift toward quarterly (QTR) release cycles
- Manage delivery using both Agile and Waterfall approaches as required by the workstream
- Track and report on transition progress using Jira and Confluence
- Proactively challenge existing ways of working
- Proven Senior PM experience delivering large-scale enterprise technology transformation, ideally with exposure to system migrations, vendor transitions, or build-to-run handovers
- Experience managing multi-vendor delivery (incumbent-to-incoming transitions) is highly desirable
- Strong stakeholder and relationship-building skills — able to build trust quickly with onshore and offshore teams and multiple vendors
- Proactive, solutions-oriented self-starter, comfortable operating with ambiguity and limited handover documentation
- Confident challenging established practices and driving process improvement in a less mature delivery environment