IT Project Manager – Multi-Lot Build & Program Management

Project overview

Contract Type: Freelance

Project details

€524 net/day. Applications exceeding this will not be considered.

Start Date: ASAP, no later than mid-November 2026

Long-term mission

Saint-Denis (93)

Remote Work: 2 days per week

Experience Required: Minimum 6 years in IT project management, including significant experience managing the Build phase.

Deadline: Client expects profiles this week

Urgency: High, immediate availability required

Context

As part of a major IT transformation program for a large French energy player, we are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to take over the management of several functional lots currently in the realization phase.

The program aims to simplify and modernize a critical information system used for planning, scheduling, and monitoring field interventions.

The scoping and general design phase is complete. The mission is now strongly focused on Build, operational management, and securing delivery.

The consultant will work on several lots in parallel, with significant responsibility for schedules, milestones, workload planning, priorities, dependencies, risks, budget, and delivery quality.

The client expects a driver, not a coordinator: someone who meets deadlines, detects deviations early, corrects them with the teams, and only escalates true decision-making issues. Excellent reporting and anticipation skills are expected, particularly with program management.

Your Missions

Lot and Schedule Management

Workload and Priorities

Team Coordination

Risks and Corrective Actions

Reporting and Governance

Budget Management

• Build, maintain, and facilitate detailed schedules for the various lots.
• Break down each lot into phases and deliverables: detailed design, development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and stabilization.
• Define and track milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Consolidate progress reports from teams and verify their reliability.
• Quickly identify discrepancies between forecasts and actuals, and analyze their causes.
• Build and manage catch-up plans necessary to secure milestones.
• Build and maintain the workload plan for teams across all lots.
• Anticipate overloads, bottlenecks, and needs for reinforcement.
• Arbitrate priorities between lots, and between evolutions, corrections, and deliveries.
• Adjust schedules and resources based on validated priorities.
• Manage and coordinate AMOA, development, QA, and business teams on a daily basis.
• Work in close collaboration with the functional managers of the various lots.
• Synchronize work with other related projects and IT systems.
• Anticipate dependencies and potential blocking points.
• Coordinate acceptance, go-live, and deployment phases.
• Identify and qualify project risks: probability, impact, deadline.
• Maintain and facilitate risk and issue logs.
• Build mitigation plans and monitor their execution.
• Take necessary corrective actions promptly in case of deviations.
• Limit escalations to management through anticipation and rigorous subject management.
• Propose solutions and arbitration scenarios to management when necessary.
• Produce regular, reliable, and concise reports on:
• schedule and milestones;
• workload;
• budget;
• quality;
• risks;
• progress of the various lots.
• Prepare and facilitate steering committees and progress meetings.
• Prepare decision milestones and Go / No-Go meetings.
• Ensure quality reporting to program management and IT department management.
• Formalize decisions and ensure action follow-up.
• Track project consumption and costs.
• Compare actuals to forecasts.
• Participate in re-forecasting exercises.
• Anticipate and report deviations.
• Evaluate the impact of scope changes on costs and deadlines.
• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Saint-Denis, France, FR
• Rate: 63-66 EUR/h
• Languages: French