12th January 2026
Project Manager – Office Move
Project Management
London
Up to £500 per day (outside IR35)
Project Manager – Office Move
London & Surrey (Hybrid)
Up to £500 per day (outside IR35)
On behalf of an expanding insurance business, I am seeking a mid-level technical Project Manager with experience in office moves and migration of on prem services to the cloud preferably within a financial services envrionment.
Whilst the role is offered on a hybrid basis, given the nature of the project, you must be willing to be office based 1-2 days a week where required across their London and Surrey locations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of the office relocation project, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
- Manage the migration of existing on-premise environments, infrastructure, and systems to Microsoft Azure, coordinating technical and business workstreams.
- Develop a detailed project plan covering scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, resources, and budgets; actively manage and execute against this plan.
- Work directly under the Programme Manager, providing regular status updates, risk escalations, and delivery forecasts.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including IT, infrastructure, security, application owners, vendors, and third-party partners.
- Facilitate and run workshops, discovery sessions, and whiteboarding sessions to define requirements, target architectures, migration approaches, and operational readiness.
- Act as the primary point of contact between technical teams and business stakeholders, translating technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and issues, particularly those related to data, security, business continuity, and change management.
- Ensure Azure migration activities align with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and governance standards.
- Oversee change management activities, including stakeholder communications, training coordination, and readiness planning.
- Track and report on project milestones, deliverables, costs, and KPIs using appropriate project management tools.
- Ensure all project documentation is maintained, including plans, RAID logs, technical decisions, and lessons learned.
- Support testing, validation, and cutover activities to ensure successful transition to the new office and cloud environment.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline processes and improve delivery effectiveness.
Experience / Skills required:
- A minimum of 5 years Project Management experience supporting office move/relocations.
- Technical Project Management experience overseeing and managing the migration of environments from on prem to cloud services within Azure
- Experience in Financial Services especially Insurance.
- Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate back to the business.
- Experience of managing IT partner/supplier services
- Experience of portfolio management processes
- Excellent MS Project (Scheduling) & Office tools.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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