<div><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/sumer">Sumer</a> is a fast-growing professional services firm that is dedicated to championing small and medium businesses and helping communities prosper, right across the UK and Ireland. We’re at a unique point in our journey: the excitement of a scale-up combined with the stability of a growing professional services group. This is a chance to join us at the ground floor, shape the future, and make a real impact.<br><br>As Project Manager – Payroll Transformation, you will play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/sumer">Sumer</a>’s payroll transformation programme, including the rollout of a new Payroll solution across multiple business units. <div>This is a critical role supporting one of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/sumer">Sumer</a>’s most business-critical service lines. You will work closely with Payroll leaders, hub teams, Technology, Procurement, Finance, Learning &amp; Development and external vendors to ensure the migration is well planned, tightly governed and delivered with minimal operational disruption.</div><div><br>The role will focus on coordinating the end-to-end payroll migration plan, managing dependencies, supporting testing and training readiness, driving issue resolution and ensuring each hub is prepared for parallel run, go-live and transition into business as usual.</div><div><br>This is a 18-month fixed term contract position, reporting directly into the Strategy and Integration Director. </div><div><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><div><ul><li>Lead the planning, governance, and delivery of the payroll migration programme across <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/sumer">Sumer</a> hubs and spokes.</li><li>Work closely with Payroll teams to understand current processes, operational requirements and migration readiness. Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, risks, dependencies, budget and resource allocation.</li><li>Coordinate hub-by-hub migration activity, ensuring rollout sequencing is clear and realistic.</li><li>Coordinate with Technology, Procurement and third-party providers to ensure system, contract and implementation dependencies are managed effectively.</li><li>Support the planning and delivery of user testing, parallel runs, data validation, training and go-live readiness.</li><li>Identify, escalate and mitigate project risks, blockers and dependencies.</li><li>Ensure clear communication and reporting of project progress to key stakeholders and governance forums, including developing communication plans to the broader team.</li><li>Support standardisation of payroll processes and ways of working across hubs and spokes.</li><li>Ensure successful transition into business-as-usual operations, including documentation, ownership, support routes and lessons learned. Monitor post implementation progress, adoption and key delivery outcomes. </li></ul></div><h3>Skills, Knowledge &amp