IT Project Manager – System Integration – German Speaking - Remote/UK

IT Project Manager – System Integration – German Speaking - Remote/UK

£50k – £55k per annum – home-working with European travel.

Our client are looking for an experienced, bilingual (English & German speaking) Project Manager to join a dynamic and fast-growing organisation on an ambitious journey to build a global platform. Operating across multiple projects, you will play a pivotal role in delivering post-merger integrations, ensuring newly acquired businesses are successfully onboarded and aligned.

This is a home-based role, either in the UK or Germany, with quarterly travel to Germany & Zurich (Frankfurt). The ideal candidate will be fluent in both English and German languages.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage delivery of post-acquisition communication plans, ensuring critical first 30-day milestones are achieved.
• Communicate and implement group policies across newly acquired businesses, ensuring compliance and understanding.
• Document existing processes and system usage to support integration activities.
• Oversee third-party vendors to ensure delivery aligns with scope, budget, and timelines.
• Develop and execute deployment plans for system integrations, including communications, downtime, and go-live coordination.
• Maintain and review project plans, ensuring accurate tracking of activities within project management systems.
• Identify, escalate, and manage risks and issues, including mitigation actions.
• Coordinate training sessions, including scheduling and attendance, to support successful project delivery.
• Handle and process system and people data to enable seamless integrations.
• Support the development of communications, training materials, and documentation.
• Manage issue logs post-deployment to ensure timely resolution and successful go-lives.
• Lead the delivery of functional integration projects across Finance, IT, HR, and Operations.
• Produce project and programme-level reporting.
• Provide general administrative support to the integration function as required.

Key Skills required:

• Experience in project delivery roles, delivering post-merger integrations.
• Formal project management qualifications (e.g. APM or PRINCE2).
• Strong understanding of risk and issue management.
• Proven ability to create, manage, and update project plans across multiple workstreams.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Confident stakeholder manager, with experience engaging at all levels and with third-party vendors.
• Proactive, can-do attitude with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Salary:

The salary on offer is up to £55k/ annum, plus benefits including remote working opportunities.