Senior Salesforce Programme Manager – Manchester, Hybrid – Contract (3-6 months) - Outside IR35
A trusted pair of hands to land a delayed Salesforce migration.
A Manchester-based business is in the final stretch of a migration from Dynamics to Salesforce.
Around 250 users are already across, testing is nearly complete, and go-live is targeted for February.
The programme has run late and the board wants a credible, experienced Programme Manager to own it over the line and manage the highest-risk period: data migration and cutover.
This is a senior, accountable role. You’ll own the programme plan, manage the workstream leads, and be the person the board can rely on.
What you’ll be doing:
- 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), pulling together the small teams currently covering these areas
- Making sure technical and business readiness are both in place for a February go-live
- Picking up the tail end of UAT and driving it to a clean close
- Scoping and sizing any descoped or deprioritised work into a clear phase two and hypercare plan
- Supporting the reshaping of the wider technology function, so post-go-live work is handed to the right people
What matters:
- 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
- A calm, credible presence and a track record as a safe pair of hands
Contract details:
Outside IR35, with clearly defined deliverables
3-6 months initially, with go-live in February and a further phase of phase two and hypercare planning
Hybrid, with 2-3 days a week on-site in Manchester (some flexibility for the right candidate)
If you’re a Programme Manager who has taken over a complex Salesforce programme and landed it safely, get in touch.