Description
Project Manager - Insurance - Retirement Transformation - 6 months - Edinburgh - £259/day
A top retail bank based in Edinburgh is currently seeking a Project Manager to join a Retirement Transformation programme for a 6 month period.
Overview of the Programme/Project
This request is specifically for the Retirement transformation programme which is now mobilising.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
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 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.
- Engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence direction of projects to meet the project milestones. Typically up to and including Grade G level.
- People and Self Development: Where appropriate, manages, motivates, develops and coaches assigned team members to create a high performing team.
- Risk: Continuously monitors projects for risk issues and regulatory compliance and takes appropriate steps to mitigate.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience in supporting the delivery regulatory projects within a Financial Services environment, ideally within an insurance business.
- Proven track record of supporting 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, understanding of the requirements for project standards and documentation. Experience of working in an agile environment.
Additional Information
The role will be working using the agile methodology. The role will involve providing project support/managing workstreams as required by the Programme.
Please note that, due to the high level of applications we receive, we are not able to provide individual responses. If you have not heard from us within 2 working days, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
Campion Willcocks is an equal opportunities employer. Services advertised by Campion Willcocks are those of an employment business.