Senior IT Project Manager – Application Transition & M&A Carve-Out

Role : Senior IT Project Manager – Application Transition & M&A Carve-Out 

Location : Remote 

The ideal candidate will combine strong project and program management discipline with hands-on experience in enterprise application delivery, business engagement, transition management, stakeholder coordination, and M&A/carve-out environments.

Key Responsibilities

Application Transition Leadership & IT Oversight

• Serve as the primary IT lead and point of accountability for an assigned portfolio of application transition, separation, migration, and implementation initiatives.
• Ensure each assigned application has clearly defined business and IT ownership, an appropriate project or transition workplan, accountable delivery leadership, and a defined path to implementation, transition, and operational support.
• Assess the delivery model and level of IT involvement required for each application initiative. Some initiatives may have a dedicated IT Project Manager, while others may be business-led with IT providing specific activities, governance, and oversight.
• Partner with project managers, business leads, application owners, and technical teams to maintain visibility into milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, issues, and outstanding IT actions without duplicating existing project management responsibilities.
• Dive into application-level details as required to identify gaps, clarify requirements, confirm dependencies, establish ownership, and drive unresolved issues to closure.
• Assess and confirm application readiness throughout the transition lifecycle, including:
• Business and technical requirements
• Solution design and architecture
• Infrastructure readiness
• Security and access requirements
• Interfaces and integrations
• Data requirements and migration
• Testing and validation
• Cutover and deployment planning
• Documentation
• Knowledge transfer
• Operational support and ownership
• Coordinate and drive completion of required IT activities, particularly for business-led initiatives where dedicated IT project management support may not be available.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business functions, IT, infrastructure, security, application teams, vendors, service providers, and third-party consultants.
• Support vendor engagement activities as required, including solution evaluations, Statement of Work (SOW) development, estimation, procurement coordination, and delivery tracking.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility and provide concise executive-level reporting on application status, transition readiness, risks, dependencies, decisions, and areas requiring leadership intervention.
• Proactively identify and escalate applications that lack appropriate ownership, resources, transition plans, decisions, documentation, technical readiness, or delivery accountability.
• Drive issue resolution and accountability across stakeholders to ensure critical transition milestones and business continuity requirements are achieved.

Knowledge Transfer & Data Request Coordination

• Coordinate Knowledge Transfer (KT) activities with business stakeholders, application owners, IT teams, vendors, incumbent service providers, and external parties.
• Ensure KT requests are clearly defined, appropriately documented, submitted through established processes, tracked, and driven through completion.
• Engage with business users, application owners, SMEs, and technology teams to understand existing application knowledge and identify gaps requiring additional documentation, training, or knowledge transfer sessions.
• Facilitate discovery workshops and discussions to understand:
• Application functionality
• Supported business processes
• User groups and stakeholders
• Application ownership
• Interfaces and integrations
• Data flows
• Infrastructure and hosting
• Security requirements
• Upstream and downstream dependencies
• Operational processes
• Support models
• Technical architecture
• Translate identified knowledge gaps into structured, actionable KT requests and coordinate sessions with the appropriate subject matter experts.
• Coordinate Data Requests from business and IT stakeholders by helping define requirements, gather required information, identify data owners, and ensure requests are submitted through established channels and processes.
• Track KT and Data Requests through completion, proactively managing follow-ups, actions, dependencies, approvals, scheduling constraints, and issue resolution.
• Ensure KT outputs, technical documentation, process documentation, architecture information, operational procedures, support information, and other transition artifacts are captured and made available to the appropriate teams.
• Support knowledge retention and operational readiness to ensure receiving teams can effectively support applications following transition or separation.

Project & Portfolio Governance

• Establish and maintain appropriate governance across assigned applications and workstreams.
• Track key milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and actions.
• Maintain RAID logs, readiness trackers, transition plans, status dashboards, and other project governance artifacts as required.
• Facilitate regular project, application, and stakeholder meetings and ensure actions and decisions are documented and followed through.
• Identify cross-application dependencies and risks that may impact broader transition timelines or business operations.
• Provide clear and timely escalation of critical issues to program leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with program management, PMO, business leadership, and technology teams to ensure alignment with overall transition objectives.

Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading or coordinating complex IT application initiatives, programs, projects, transition programs, or application portfolios.
• Demonstrated success managing work across multiple concurrent applications, stakeholders, vendors, and delivery models.
• 5+ years of strong project and program management discipline, including experience assessing and managing:
• Project plans and milestones
• Risks and issues
• Dependencies
• Governance
• Ownership
• Readiness
• Resource requirements
• Decision-making and escalation
• Ability to operate effectively at both the portfolio/program level and the detailed application level.
• Strong business relationship management, stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to build credibility, influence stakeholders, drive accountability, and navigate challenging cross-functional discussions.
• Working knowledge of enterprise application delivery and transition activities, including infrastructure, security, integrations, testing, deployment, cutover planning, documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational support.
• Experience gathering business and technical requirements and translating them into actionable technology plans, workstreams, decisions, and execution activities.
• Experience facilitating discovery sessions, documenting business processes and application landscapes, identifying knowledge gaps, and coordinating cross-functional information-gathering activities.
• Proven experience managing Knowledge Transfer, documentation, data collection, and transition-readiness activities involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and ownership issues and drive them to resolution.
• Ability to work effectively in complex, fast-paced transformation environments with multiple parallel initiatives and competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, separations, or carve-out programs.
• Experience with enterprise application transitions, migrations, TSA exits, application rationalization, or operational handovers.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams, global stakeholders, vendors, and third-party service providers.
• Experience supporting application discovery, transition planning, knowledge transfer, data migration, and operational readiness activities.
• Prior experience within Life Sciences, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, or other highly regulated industries is desirable.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project/program management certification is preferred.

Key Competencies

• IT Project & Program Management
• M&A / Carve-Out Transition Management
• Enterprise Application Transition
• Portfolio Governance
• Knowledge Transfer Management
• Application Discovery & Readiness Assessment
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Business & IT Stakeholder Management
• Vendor & Third-Party Management
• Data Request Coordination
• Cutover & Operational Readiness
• Executive Reporting & Escalation
• Strong Communication & Facilitation Skills