The Vacancy

We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead high impact implementation projects within our Every HR Payroll division. You'll be at the forefront of delivering IRIS software solutions to new and existing clients, ensuring they experience the full value of our products from day one.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious project delivery professional who loves working with customers, thrives in a dynamic environment, and wants to contribute to the success of a growing team.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading complex implementation projects, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.
• Working closely with senior client stakeholders to understand priorities and drive successful outcomes.
• Managing multi-workstream projects with confidence and structure.
• Navigating challenges, mitigating risks, and ensuring clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Building strong, trusted client relationships by acting as a strategic delivery partner.
• Mentoring and supporting other Project Managers, contributing to overall team capability.
• Ensuring documentation, reporting, and governance requirements are consistently met.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in end-to-end project management.
• Experience delivering projects in fast-paced or complex environments.
• Payroll or HR software implementation experience (highly advantageous).
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving ability and a proactive, adaptable approach.
• A passion for delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
• Ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a collaborative, supportive team that values innovation and continuous improvement.
• Lead high-visibility projects that directly influence customer success.
• Access to excellent career development opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

How to Apply

Apply now with your CV via our careers page, we look forward to hearing from you.

Please note:

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

About IRIS

As one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.

IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child's school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers' businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.

It's vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.

That's why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time - so they can focus on productivity and growth.

IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.

They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.

We're delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.

These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.

IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.

This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.

Why work for IRIS?

The Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Charity / volunteering days

Income protection insurance

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Program

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity pay

Additional discount
schemes

Cycle to work
scheme

Developing your career

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:

Leading

Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.

Excelling

Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.

Growing

Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee's development needs and providing a commitment to a 'learning culture' which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.

Listening

We're committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.

Sharing

Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.