Senior IT Project Manager - Infrastructure & Cloud

Main purpose of the position

The Senior IT Project Manager leads complex, high-impact cloud transformation initiatives across multiple countries, driving the migration of critical infrastructure and technology services to cloud platforms. The role balances business, operational, and technical priorities in a matrixed global environment while delivering strategic transformation programs.

Success is measured by on-time and on-budget delivery, adoption, operational readiness, risk mitigation, and realization of expected business outcomes.

Key expectations

• Lead large-scale cloud migration and infrastructure transformation programs across multiple countries, navigating complex stakeholder landscapes, competing priorities, and regional requirements.
• Engage senior business and technology leaders, facilitate difficult discussions, resolve conflicts, and drive decisions when stakeholders have differing objectives.
• Coordinate country leadership, infrastructure and cloud engineering, architecture, vendors, and program sponsors to align strategic objectives and delivery commitments.
• Build and maintain business cases, safeguard compliance, and provide transparent reporting on financial, operational, and strategic outcomes.
• Apply project leadership, commercial awareness, communication, strategic thinking, and cloud and infrastructure transformation knowledge.

What you’ll do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale cloud migration and infrastructure transformation programs across multiple countries and business units.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders and leadership teams, influence decisions, and secure alignment on priorities and outcomes.
• Facilitate discussions and negotiations among business, technology, operations, security, and architecture stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain business cases linking investments, expected benefits, and realized value.
• Track and report value realization, financial performance, risk exposure, and strategic outcomes throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive project governance, decision-making, transparency, accountability, and stakeholder engagement.
• Manage scope, timelines, budgets, dependencies, and resources while balancing competing priorities and organizational constraints.
• Coordinate global cross-functional teams, including infrastructure engineers, cloud specialists, architects, vendors, and country representatives.
• Identify, manage, and resolve risks, escalations, organizational blockers, and stakeholder conflicts.
• Ensure migration activities meet security, compliance, operational readiness, and architectural requirements.
• Deliver executive communications and reporting on status, risks, financials, business impacts, and decisions.
• Support organizational change and adoption to enable successful transition and sustainable business outcomes.

Who you’ll work with

• Country and Group leadership and stakeholders
• Programme leadership and stakeholders
• Project teams inside and outside of the IT Department
• Infrastructure and Application Owners
• Finance Team

Key qualifications

• 10+ years of project or program management experience delivering complex technology transformation initiatives.
• Proven experience managing large-scale cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, or enterprise modernization programs.
• Strong financial management skills, including forecasting, CAPEX/OPEX, and vendor contracts.
• Expertise in Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Demonstrated success working with senior business and technology executives in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Experience building business cases, managing financials, and tracking value realization and benefits delivery.
• Strong understanding of cloud transformation programs and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Background in cloud migration programs or data-center exit initiatives.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), servers, storage, virtualization, ITSM, and operational readiness.

Nice to have

• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum, or equivalent project-management experience.
• Understanding of enterprise networking, security, and identity and access management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Technical certifications such as Azure or AWS fundamentals or architecture.

Personal skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-influencing ability.
• Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strategic mindset focused on business outcomes and value creation.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to work across time zones and cultures.
• Ownership, resilience, and accountability in rapidly changing environments.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and maintain delivery focus.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into clear business messages.
• Collaborative, relationship-oriented approach focused on trust and results.