Senior IT Project Manager - Contract
Posted Today by KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
£102 Per hour
Inside
Onsite
Motherwell, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior IT Project Manager role is a high-impact contract position focused on leading a major IT integration programme in Motherwell, Scotland. The successful candidate will manage application migrations, data transfers, and legacy system decommissioning while supporting a local IT team. This position requires strong stakeholder management and communication skills, as well as the ability to navigate complex organizational structures. The role is on-site five days a week and is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading integration activities, managing application migrations and data transfer workstreams to completion.
- Planning and executing the decommissioning of legacy systems.
- Supporting the local IT team and shielding them from competing priorities.
- Producing clear updates for senior leadership and translating project status into business language.
- Managing stakeholder resistance, particularly around data transfer.
- Bridging local and global teams, navigating multiple cultures and communication styles.
- Visiting all five Scottish sites to understand the IT landscape.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a senior IT Project Manager with a background in M&A integration, data migration, or legacy decommissioning.
- Experience working within large or complex organizations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to identify needs and drive initiatives.
- Scotland-based or willing to commit to full-time on-site work in Motherwell.
- Driving licence and willingness to travel between sites in Scotland.
- Experience managing projects with global delivery teams is highly valued.
- Familiarity with Office 365 environments and enterprise application landscapes.
- Prince2, PMP, or Agile certification is a plus.
- Strong personality with the ability to build trust quickly with colleagues.
Salary (Rate): £102.00/hr
City: Motherwell
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior IT Project Manager - Contract
Rate: up to £770 per day, Inside IR35
Location: Motherwell, Scotland (5 days on-site)
Contract length: 6 months (to end of 2026, extension possible)
This is a high-impact contract at the heart of a major IT integration programme. You'll be embedded within a fast-paced local IT team, helping them bring structure, momentum and clarity to a complex workload that spans legacy decommissioning, application migration, data transfer, and a site refurbishment affecting the existing IT landscape. You won't be micromanaged- this team doesn't have time for that. They need a Senior IT Project Manager who can hit the ground running, absorb a steep onboarding quickly, and immediately start driving work forward.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading integration activities - managing the outstanding application migrations and data transfer workstreams through to completion by year-end
- Decommissioning legacy systems - planning and executing the structured retirement of legacy infrastructure, including handling knowledge gaps and surprises along the way
- Supporting the local IT team - working shoulder-to-shoulder with a small, dedicated on-site team who are stretched, and helping shield them from noise and competing priorities
- Communicating upwards - producing clear, digestible updates for senior leadership and translating complex project status into business language
- Managing stakeholder resistance - particularly around data transfer, where business engagement is critical and sometimes needs a firm, diplomatic hand
- Bridging local and global teams - acting as the connector between the Motherwell site and global IT functions, navigating multiple cultures and communication styles with confidence
- Visiting all five Scottish sites in the first month to get grounded in the IT landscape across the estate (all within 45 minutes of Motherwell)
What We're Looking For
Essential:
- Proven senior IT Project Manager with experience in M&A integration, data migration, or legacy decommissioning
- Background working within large or complex organisations - you understand how big organisations operate, how decisions are made, and how to get things done within that structure
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - you can hold a room, present to leadership, and make technical complexity accessible
- Self-starter - you'll identify what needs doing and drive it, rather than waiting to be directed
- Scotland-based (or willing to commit to full-time on-site in Motherwell
- Driving licence and willingness to travel between sites in Scotland
Highly Valued:
- Experience managing projects involving global delivery teams
- Familiarity with Office 365 environments and enterprise application landscapes
- Comfort navigating cross-cultural teams and international stakeholders
- Prince2, PMP, or Agile certification
Personality — this matters as much as the CV: The hiring team are specifically looking for someone with presence - who can walk into a leadership meeting and hold their own, voice concerns clearly, and build trust quickly with both technical and non-technical colleagues. If you're the kind of Project Manager who waits to be told what to do, this won't be the right fit. If you're the kind who reads the room, sees what's needed, and gets on with it - read on.
The Setup
- 5 days per week on-site in Motherwell
- Occasional travel to other Scottish sites (all within approx. 45 minutes)
- Reporting into a global IT integration lead and working closely with the local IT Manager for Scotland
- Inside IR35
- Interviews expected w/c 8th June; target start date mid/late June 2026
To apply, submit your CV in the first instance.