HRIS Project Manager – Client Transformation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete delivery of HR, payroll, and HRIS transformation initiatives from initiation and discovery through to testing, go-live, hypercare, and transition to standard operations.

• Develop and manage integrated project plans that encompass client, vendor, system-integrator, and Silver Cloud activities.

• Take ownership of project governance, which includes maintaining RAID logs, tracking actions, decisions, dependencies, change control, status reporting, and milestone management.

• Control scope, budget, resources, timelines, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.

• Define roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and decision-making frameworks.

• Organize project boards, steering committees, governance forums, and executive updates.

• Recognize risks and issues, create mitigation strategies, and drive actions to resolution.

• Assist in programme recovery if delivery is not on track.

• Cultivate trusted relationships with senior HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders.

• Align programme activities with the broader business and transformation objectives of clients.

• Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, decision-making forums, and stakeholder engagement activities.

• Simplify complex project information into clear updates for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Offer independent advice and challenge decisions constructively to enhance client outcomes.

• Coordinate HRIS vendors, implementation partners, client workstream leaders, and Silver Cloud specialists.

• Supervise readiness across data migration, integrations, testing, parallel payroll, training, communications, and go-live activities.

• Assist in the adoption of future-state processes and ensure effective transition to standard operations.

• Maintain forecasts and visibility regarding project health, financials, resources, milestones, and scope.

• Identify and manage commercial risks while implementing change control measures.

• Contribute to account growth, proposal development, scoping, and engagement mobilization.

• Coordinate efforts among consultants, technical experts, client teams, vendors, and third-party partners across various workstreams.

• Provide guidance, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to team members.

• Facilitate organizational change, readiness, and measures of transformation success.

• Conduct lessons learned sessions to refine Silver Cloud's methodologies, templates, tools, and quality standards.

• Ensure clients achieve their business, technology, and transformation objectives while integrating new systems and practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading intricate projects or programmes throughout the entire delivery lifecycle.

• Extensive experience in HR, payroll, HRIS, or people-technology transformation.

• Experience managing HRIS, payroll, or enterprise-system implementations from either the client side, consultancy side, or within professional services.

• Strong understanding of the interdependencies among business processes, data, integrations, testing, change, training, and operational readiness.

• Proven ability to collaborate with technology vendors, system integrators, internal specialists, and senior business stakeholders.

• Robust project governance, planning, change-control, risk-management, and reporting skills.

• Commercial acumen, including experience with budget management, forecasting, scope, and project financials.

• Confidence in facilitating steering committees and effectively communicating programme health to executive stakeholders.

• Capability to constructively challenge, resolve ambiguity, and maintain progress in complex delivery environments.

• Experience in leading remote, cross-functional, and multi-party teams.

• Ability to handle multiple projects, clients, or workstreams while ensuring quality delivery.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• A collaborative, low-ego leadership approach and a willingness to share knowledge.

• Strong attention to detail with a practical, outcome-oriented mindset.

• Confidence in working independently within a remote-first consultancy setting.

• Willingness to travel to client and team locations across the UK as needed.

• Desirable: Familiarity with HRIS, HCM, payroll, or workforce-management platforms.

• Desirable: Experience in delivering global or multi-country HR and payroll programmes.

• Desirable: Knowledge of HRIS selection, project readiness, digital assessment, or programme-recovery engagements.

• Desirable: Experience in supporting presales, statement-of-work creation, solution scoping, or account growth.

• Desirable: Familiarity with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or ClickUp.

• Desirable: Possession of PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, APM, or equivalent project-management certification.

• Desirable: Experience mentoring other project managers, consultants, or workstream leads.

🏝️ Benefits

• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays.

• Day off for your birthday.

• Volunteering day.

• Enhanced family, sick, and bereavement leave (including counselling).

• Pension plan through salary sacrifice with the Pension People.

• WeCare – 24/7 helpline and Second Medical Opinion service.

• Flexibility from day one.

• Comfort from home – reimbursement for office chair and eye care expenses.

• Profit share bonus scheme available.

• Refer-a-friend bonus program.

• Life insurance equal to three times annual salary.

• Income protection for critical illness.

• Private healthcare coverage.

• A truly supportive and wonderful team.