Software Implementation Project Manager

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience managing software implementation or business systems projects
• Experience managing third-party software implementation projects
• Strong project planning, organisation and coordination skills
• Experience maintaining project plans, action trackers, risks and issues
• Ability to take over a project already underway
• Experience working with external software vendors or implementation partners
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience coordinating workshops, testing, training and go-live readiness
• Confidence reporting to senior stakeholders or a steering board
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Confidence challenging delays or missed commitments constructively
• Commercial understanding of supplier time, project cost and scope
• Practical experience, sound judgement and the ability to get people working together
• ERP or Acumatica experience is useful but not essential
• A formal project management qualification is not essential

Responsibilities:

• Review the current position and what has already been completed
• Maintain the overall project plan, milestones and delivery schedule
• Coordinate internal teams, the Business Analyst and implementation partner
• Ensure actions have clear owners and realistic completion dates
• Follow up actions and remove blockers
• Secure resources for workshops, testing, training and implementation activity
• Maintain risks, issues, actions, dependencies and decisions
• Provide visibility of deadlines and resource requirements
• Coordinate data, reporting and operational readiness
• Support testing, training and go-live planning
• Provide clear updates to the project steering board
• Escalate significant risks, delays and decisions
• Monitor project expenditure and supplier time
• Maintain a productive relationship with the implementation partner

Technologies:

• Cloud
• ERP
• Support
• Project Manager

More:

We are implementing Acumatica, a cloud-based business management and ERP platform, with the finance phase already complete and the next stage focused on the wider manufacturing and operational rollout. This is a six-month fixed-term contract based in Aylesford, Kent, with an immediate start preferred and the potential for extension depending on project requirements. We are looking for a pragmatic and collaborative Software Implementation Project Manager to coordinate stakeholders, maintain momentum and support the successful rollout of the remaining functionality while working alongside an experienced Business Analyst and external implementation partner.

last updated 32 week of 2026