Remote Project Manager – Payroll Transformation

For a global payroll transformation programme, we are looking for an experienced Country Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of a local payroll implementation.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving all in-country project activities, ensuring alignment with the wider global programme, managing local stakeholders, and coordinating the implementation with external vendors and cross-functional teams.

This is an excellent opportunity for an accomplished Project Manager with payroll, HR transformation, ERP, or business transformation experience to lead a high-profile implementation in a fast-paced, international environment.

• Lead local project planning, scheduling, execution, and progress tracking for the country payroll rollout.
• Coordinate local implementation activities and ensure alignment with the global programme timeline, milestones, and objectives.
• Align local vendor plans with the overall programme plan and actively manage dependencies.
• Establish and maintain local project governance in line with the global programme governance framework.
• Act as the primary programme representative within the country and coordinate all in-country project activities.
• Manage the country’s Change Request process, ensuring requests are documented, assessed, prioritised, and progressed appropriately.
• Apply recognised project management methodologies to ensure structured and controlled delivery.
• Identify, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Maintain the RAID log throughout the project lifecycle and ensure transparent reporting to programme stakeholders.
• Coordinate resource planning across global and local workstreams.
• Proactively manage resource conflicts, delivery risks, and cross-workstream dependencies.
• Own and manage the local cutover plan, ensuring alignment with programme templates, principles, and overall cutover approach.
• Support readiness activities, stakeholder alignment, and transition into hypercare or business-as-usual operations.

• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and to the required quality standards.

• Proven experience managing large-scale payroll, HR, ERP, or business transformation projects.
• Strong project management background with experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder implementations.
• Experience working within global transformation programmes and coordinating local country deployments.
• Strong understanding of project governance, RAID management, change control, planning, and resource management.
• Experience working with third-party vendors, implementation partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining focus on delivery, quality, and governance.
• Strong planning, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
• Structured, proactive, and delivery-oriented working style.
• Ability to work effectively in an international, remote, and matrixed project environment.