Senior Project Manager - Build to Run Transition

Senior Project Manager - Build to Run Transition

Our clientis midway through a multi-yeartransformation program migrating core systems ontoa newcloud platform.

18th September, 2026

Senior Project Manager

Contract Length:6 monthrenewable

Location:Sydney or Melbourne

We'relooking 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 incomingoperatepartner.

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 withstakeholders to capture lessons learnedinpreviousmigrations
• Build andmaintainstrong 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

18th September, 2026

Senior Project Manager

Contract Length:6 monthrenewable

Location:Sydney or Melbourne

We'relooking 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 incomingoperatepartner.

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 withstakeholders to capture lessons learnedinpreviousmigrations
• Build andmaintainstrong 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

About You

• 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