Overview
In this role you lead end-to-end software implementations for clients in the education sector, partnering with senior stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure value delivery. You’ll manage scope, timelines and budgets while proactively mitigating risks and dependencies. You’ll act as a trusted delivery partner, driving governance, reporting and cross-functional collaboration to achieve customer-focused outcomes. This position sits in the Education Professional Services team and offers the opportunity to shape successful, transformational software deployments at IRIS.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end software implementation projects
- Take ownership of delivery, ensuring objectives, timelines and budgets are achieved
- Build strong relationships with customers and act as a trusted delivery partner
- Manage project risks, issues and dependencies proactively
- Coordinate resources and stakeholders across multiple workstreams
- Ensure adherence to project governance and delivery methodologies
- Deliver accurate reporting on project progress and performance
- Support a customer-first approach that drives successful outcomes
Key requirements
- Significant project management experience, ideally within software, technology or complex delivery environments
- Proven track record delivering multiple concurrent projects
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
- Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
- Experience managing challenging or high-visibility projects
- A proactive and solutions-focused mindset
- PRINCE2, PMP or similar project management qualifications (desirable)
- Experience delivering Payroll or HR software implementations (highly desirable)
- Excellent communication
- Stakeholder engagement
- Attention to detail
- PRINCE2
- PMP or similar qualifications
- Payroll software implementations
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