IT Project Manager - Housing Management System (HMS)

Project Manager - Housing Management System Transformation

Remote / Hybrid - Portsmouth (occasional onsite attendance required)

Long-Term PAYE Contract Opportunity - Temporary PAYE

• £350.86 per day PAYE
• Approx. £42.34 per day holiday pay
• Total effective rate approx. £393.20 per day
• Workplace pension (auto enrolment applies)
• 32 hours per week (Monday to Thursday)
• Contract until 31 March 2028
• Start date: 1 April 2026

We are supporting a large public sector housing organisation with the appointment of an experienced Project Manager to lead a major Housing Management System (HMS) transformation programme.

This is a significant transformation initiative replacing multiple legacy housing systems with a single, modern, cloud-hosted Housing Management System. The new platform will support over 15,000 households and will play a key role in improving customer access, compliance, reporting capability and operational efficiency.

You will take full responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of the HMS implementation, from mobilisation through to go-live and post-implementation stabilisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the full lifecycle HMS implementation and data migration
• Managing a multidisciplinary team including Project Coordinator, Data Lead, Business Analyst and Test Lead
• Acting as the key link between Housing, IT & Digital, Data, Finance, Procurement, Governance and external suppliers
• Overseeing data cleansing and migration from multiple legacy systems
• Managing integrations with repairs, finance, community safety and corporate systems
• Leading system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), defect management and go-live readiness
• Driving business change, communications, training and transition into business as usual
• Managing programme plans, risks, issues, dependencies and budget oversight

• Proven delivery of complex housing IT implementations and large-scale data migrations
• Experience with NEC Housing, Microsoft Dynamics 365 or similar Housing Management Systems
• Strong understanding of landlord services including tenancy, rents, repairs, asset management and compliance
• Experience delivering SaaS or cloud-hosted solutions
• Strong governance knowledge including risk, issues and change control
• Confident stakeholder management across operational and technical teams

Should your application be successful, you will be contacted shortly.

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