Description
Project Manager - Insurance
Key Accountabilities:
Programme/Project Set Up and Closure:
Feeds into business study/programme proposals and business cases, ensuring alignment with business strategy; agreement of project benefits; and how these will be measured and tracked post implementation.
Works with the business area to ensure an effective approach to business implementation, handover, and acceptance of the change.
Governance and Reporting:
Works closely with the Programme Leads to provide regular status reporting appropriately to different stakeholders and to agreed CMT standards and recommend options for contingency plans.
Project Delivery:
Defines and implements a detailed delivery approach for each stage of the project life cycle, obtains acceptance and buy-in to the approach from all team members, and produces and owns all project management deliverables, using established project methodologies, to the right level of quality.
Planning and Finance:
Produces and owns the project plan. Controls, manages and monitors project timescales and budgets, reporting variances, escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs, and re-forecasting where necessary.
Resource Management:
Tracks resource requirements (including roles and responsibilities), budget and FTE profile for areas of responsibility.
Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project stakeholders and develops an appropriate stakeholder communication plan.
Experience in leading and delivering regulatory projects within a Financial Services environment, ideally within an insurance business.
Proven track record of managing the delivery of medium to large projects or workstreams within very large projects or programmes, taking responsibility for delivering solutions which address business needs.
Manages resources to ensure delivery to agreed business plans within cost, quality and timescale objectives, ensuring that the benefits identified in the business case can be realised.
Ability to prioritise and re-prioritise at short notice to meet immediate requirements without compromising long term objectives
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate information clearly and concisely to colleagues at all levels
Ability to clearly establish risks and issues that impact on project deliverables and agree mitigating actions with key stakeholders, strong understanding of the requirements for project standards and documentation, and a qualification in management and/or formal project/programme management qualification. Experience of working in an agile environment.