Project Manager

Project Manager - Application Development Vendor Migration

Industry: Luxury Retail/Fashion
Contract: 6-month contract (Inside IR35)
Rate: £625 per day
Location: London (2-3 days onsite)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the migration of an application development and managed service from one vendor to another within a large, complex enterprise environment in the luxury retail and fashion industry.

This is a business-critical transformation programme, focused on ensuring continuity of application development while transitioning services to a new strategic partner. The role requires strong delivery focus, stakeholder management, and vendor coordination skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end migration of application development services from the incumbent vendor to a new provider
• Ensure uninterrupted service delivery throughout the transition, with continuity of development work as a top priority
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, and communications
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, operations, security, legal, and business stakeholders
• Manage vendor relationships, setting expectations and enabling effective inter-vendor collaboration
• Track progress and report status, risks, and issues to senior stakeholders, escalating where required

Key Deliverables

• Document current-state processes and define future-state objectives with service users and stakeholders
• Lead knowledge transfer and transition planning across applications, projects, and services
• Identify, manage, and mitigate delivery and operational risks
• Prepare the incoming vendor for steady-state service ownership
• Ensure compliance with governance, security, regulatory, and control requirements
• Conduct post-migration reviews and support handover into BAU operations

Required Experience

• Proven experience managing large-scale IT or vendor migration projects, ideally within application development or software delivery
• Strong understanding of application development life cycles, DevOps, and service management
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience managing multiple stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams
• Strong vendor management, communication, and negotiation skills
• Experience with SAP technologies (ECC, S/4HANA, BTP) and system integration tools
• Experience working with large system integrators and offshore delivery teams

Desirable

• Project management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile PM)
• Experience with outsourcing contracts and transition governance
• Background in business-critical or customer-facing service delivery
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capability
• Calm under pressure and able to manage competing priorities

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.