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Implementation Project Manager: Payroll & HR Systems
Atlas Hotels is looking for an experienced Implementation Project Manager to provide dedicated project leadership for the next phase of our HR and Payroll system transformation. The Project Manager will lead and oversee the next phase of our system transformation project, which will see us move payroll away from our current external provider into the Zellis platform.
Day rate: To be agreed
Requirement: We are looking for a Contractor (contract-for-services / PSC, subject to IR35 assessment) to provide up to 180 days support across the duration of our project (estimated to be 8-11 months in total). Days per week will vary from 1-3 depending on the project phase and resource requirements, with a start date before the end of 2026.
We are looking for someone with strong implementation project-management experience and, ideally, direct experience of payroll or HR/payroll technology transformation.
Working alongside our internal People Team, systems specialists and the external supplier project team, you will take ownership of day-to-day project coordination and delivery discipline.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Maintaining the integrated Atlas project plan, milestones and critical path
* Coordinating all activities relating to the project including workshops, data, integrations, reporting, training, testing, cutover and hypercare
* Providing clear governance reporting and escalating risks, delays and unresolved decisions
* Driving actions and deliverables across the Atlas project team and wider internal stakeholders as well as supplier stakeholders, holding all parties to account
* Planning and coordinating UAT, including tester scheduling, evidence, defects, retesting and completion
* Providing hands-on testing support at peak points where appropriate
* Identifying resource and capacity pinch points ahead of time, suggesting resolutions
* Owning internal actions and communication, ensuring all stakeholders are aware of project status, risk and focus areas as well as progress and key milestones
What we're looking for
Essential
* Strong implementation/project-management experience
* Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional technology implementations
* Experience coordinating UAT and defect management
* Comfortable working hands-on rather than operating solely at programme/governance level
* Excellent stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge constructively
* Excellent communicator, in person and in writing, articulate and engaging
Highly desirable
* Payroll or HRIS/HCM implementation experience
* Experience of enterprise payroll platforms
* Experience managing a client-side implementation involving a major technology supplier
This is a delivery-focused contract. We need someone who can bring structure, pace and accountability while working collaboratively with internal subject-matter experts and our implementation partner.