Project Manager

NY
Contracted
Experienced
Key Responsibilities
-Project Planning & Governance
- Develop and maintain the overall project plan, migration schedule, wave structure, communication strategy, and success metrics.
-Define scope and prioritization for content migration across business units and geographic regions.
- Maintain strong program governance through standardized reporting, issue/risk logs, and executive level updates.

Execution & Delivery
-Lead day to day execution of migration waves including readiness checks, tool execution, validation, and cutover activities.
-Coordinate work with other internal Technology teams, (Infrastructure, Collaboration Services, Information Security).
-Ensure all migration steps: including remediation of legacy features, permissions mapping, and content hygiene, are executed according to enterprise standards.
- Drive pilot BU migrations and scale up phases while monitoring throughput, blockers, and performance of migration tooling.

Stakeholder & Change Management
-Serve as primary liaison across business units, Site Owners, Technology Owners, and line of business leadership.
-Facilitate workshops, readiness briefings, and migration governance calls to align expectations and communicate upcoming changes.
-Deliver user focused communication including pre migration notices, post migration instructions, and targeted guidance for high impact groups.
-Support end users and site owners through transition, coordinating with Service Desk and Support teams for issue resolution.

Business Unit (BU) Risk Management
-Identify, document, and actively manage BU specific risks associated with the migration (e.g., data sensitivity, legacy workflows, regulatory exposure, access inconsistencies, operational dependencies).
-Conduct pre migration BU risk assessments to validate content types, special handling requirements, and business critical processes.
-Work with BU Leadership, BU Risk Officers, and Technology Risk to ensure risks are properly logged, categorized, tracked, and mitigated before migration activities begin.
-Communicate dependency based risks (e.g., disabling sync clients, addressing deprecated features, preparing critical applications) and drive timely BU action.
-Maintain a structured BU level risk register with clear owners, due dates, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.
-Validate that post migration access controls, retention rules, audit readiness, and governance policies meet corporate standards before sign off.

Quality, Compliance & Documentation
- Ensure that migration activities comply with data governance, retention policies, entitlements standards, and regulatory requirements.
-Maintain documentation of all major decisions, cutover steps, mapping files, and validation reports.
-Track and report quality KPIs such as content success rates, remediation completion, user adoption, and error reduction.
- Capture lessons learned for continuous improvement across future migration cycles.

Required Qualifications
-5+ years of experience, preferably in enterprise technology, end user computing, digital transformation, or infrastructure programs.
-Proven experience leading migration projects
-Strong working knowledge of OneDrive, SharePoint Online, permissions, content lifecycle, retention, and collaboration patterns.
-Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage diverse stakeholder groups, including executives, technical teams, and end users.
-Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, deadlines, and dependencies.
-BA Degree required

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large scale enterprise migrations, including phased/pilot approaches, cross region rollouts, and high volume entitlement changes. -Familiarity with Microsoft Migration Manager, SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), or third party migration solutions.
-Understanding of information security, data classification, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Experience partnering with BU Risk, Compliance, and Governance teams.

Rate range -$50-$55
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