Microsoft 365 Project Manager (migration) - contract

6 month contract based in London, UK. Start 30th Sept

Mindera is a young and fast growing technology services business of 1,000+ talented people across multiple locations worldwide. We have a unique people-first culture which is continuously evolving and would love for you to join us.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Project Manager for one of our clients, an education business. The business provides a range of services to over 18,000 schools, 1,900 staff, 30,000 educators and over 5m pupils, including staffing support, virtual learning environments and learning management systems, managing school workloads, risks and financial constraints.

Requirements

Key responsibilities

• Manage a Microsoft 365 tenant migration project, focused on migrating multiple (x4) separate M365 tenants from different business units over to the central corporate M365 instance, including: Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Forms, Yammer, Accounts and Devices, On-premises file servers, Telephony (Both fixed and mobile), SSO applications in the source tenant.
• Create and maintain the project plan, including discovery phases, technical migration approach, testing, and business change management, to ensure uninterrupted transition.
• Manage the supplier that is contracted to undertake the technical migration work.
• The PM must have a strong background in Microsoft 365 suite of applications and productivity / EUC technologies in general, ideally coming from a functional analyst or solution architecture background.
• The PM must possess sufficient technical knowledge to understand the migration approach, the tasks involved and potential technical issues that will present, for example, issues with bespoke configuration of tenants that make migration to a standard instance difficult.
• The PM is expected to challenge the approach and recommendations from the supplier where necessary and reasonable, in order to ensure the migration project executes as efficiently as possible.
• Manage key stakeholders and create a clear communication plan to help a relatively untechnical user community understand the implications of the migration and to avoid surprises.
• This is a hybrid role, requiring 2-3 days in central London and very occasional travel to other UK offices of the affected business units.

Benefits

Competitive day rate