Robert Walters
Senior Project Manager - SaaS Implementation - Nursery Platform
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Senior Project Manager - Operational Management Platform
Nursery Management Platform (Finance-Focused SaaS Implementation)
6-month FTC with strong likelihood of 12
Central London, hybrid (2 days/week)
I'm recruiting a Senior Project Manager for a London charitable social enterprise in early-years education - 1,200 people, 40+ sites - to lead the implementation of the platform their entire operation will run on.
This system holds everything: children's records and daily logs, the parent-facing journey, and - critically - the money: funding streams, billing and invoicing. So this role needs a PM who is genuinely strong on finance. You'll work closely with Finance stakeholders on billing models, funding and forecasting, and you'll need to hold your own in those conversations.
What you'll own:
- End-to-end delivery: discovery, requirements, vendor selection, configuration, data migration, UAT, training, rollout and adoption across 40+ sites
- Migration from an incumbent system involving highly sensitive data - children's and family records - where GDPR and data risk have to be second nature, and documentation must stand up to regulatory audit
- The vendor relationship: contracts, budget, invoices, and holding third parties to account through rollout
- Governance done properly: RAID logs, RAG status, roadmaps, weekly reporting - planned in MS Project or Smartsheet
- Hands-on BA work: user requirements, parent and staff journeys, workflows and process maps
- Bringing a non-project-native organisation along - this is their first proper PM function, and part of the job is showing people what good looks like
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Backgrounds that map well:
- Nursery or childcare management platforms
- Higher education - student management systems / MIS
- Healthcare, hospital or service-industry operational platforms with billing and funding
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You'll need:
- Extensive experience in end-to-end SaaS implementation, waterfall delivery in structured or regulated environments, real financial fluency, and to be London-based with capacity for 2 days a week in the office - more during training and rollout.
- An enhanced DBS check will be required.
This probably isn't for you if your background is agile product delivery, custom builds with dev teams, or on-prem-to-cloud infrastructure work.
Interviewing immediately.
Apply here or message me directly. Please confirm where you're based, your right to work in the UK, and whether you've already applied to a role like this directly (so we don't duplicate an application).
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