Project Manager

Project Manager – Divestment / Business Separation

Contract: 6 months

Day Rate: Up to £700 per day outside IR35

Location: UK / Remote

Start: ASAP

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with proven experience delivering technology divestments, carve-outs or business separations to join a major enterprise transformation programme.

This is a hands-on role focused specifically on the separation of a business, technology estate or organisational entity. You will take ownership of complex projects from planning through to implementation, working across multiple teams, suppliers and stakeholders to ensure a controlled and successful separation.

What you'll be doing

• Lead end-to-end divestment and business separation projects, from discovery and planning through to implementation, cutover and transition.
• Define and manage project scope, plans, milestones, dependencies, budgets, risks and issues.
• Coordinate multiple internal technical and business workstreams to deliver the separation successfully.
• Manage dependencies between applications, infrastructure, data, services and business operations.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders, technical teams, third-party suppliers and systems integrators.
• Support TSA planning, exit activities and Day 1 readiness where applicable.
• Oversee testing, migration, cutover, implementation and transition into BAU.
• Provide clear project governance, reporting and escalation through to senior leadership.

What we're looking for

Essential:

• Proven experience delivering IT divestments, business separations or technology carve-outs.
• Strong hands-on Project Management experience across complex enterprise environments.
• Experience managing projects from initiation through to implementation/go-live.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor and third-party management experience.
• Excellent understanding of project governance, RAID, dependencies, budgets, risks and delivery.
• Comfortable working across multiple business and technical teams in complex transformation environments.

Nice to have

Experience across any of the following would be advantageous:

ERP / SAP | CRM | Infrastructure | Cloud | Data Migration | Application Separation | TSA Exit | Cyber / Security | Identity & Access | Enterprise Applications

We're looking for a hands-on, delivery-focused Project Manager who is comfortable getting into the detail, managing multiple dependencies and driving a project forward in a complex environment.

You should be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of what happens when a business is separated from a parent organisation — not simply experience working on acquisitions or general M&A programmes.

The opportunity

This is a high-profile enterprise transformation environment offering the opportunity to work on complex, business-critical divestment activity with significant stakeholder visibility.