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 setting

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📌 Senior Project Manager - Build to Run Transition (New South Wales)
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