UK Change Project Manager

Job Type:

Permanent

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About Hiscox UK

Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

The role

The main responsibility of this role is project management of change project(s) for the UK business. This involves assuming the project leadership role and overall responsibility for taking a project from an original concept through the final delivery. This role requires a proactive approach to collaborating with and managing senior internal and external stakeholders ensuring delivery is achieved by the most effective and efficient means.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead project management activities including benefit identification, plan management, tracking and reporting of delivery progress; identification, evaluation and resolution of risks, issues, dependencies; tracking, development and assurance of initiative deliverables
• Define resource plans and work closely with internal teams, stakeholders and vendors to manage the day-to-day and full end-to-end project delivery activities
• Manage project scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost and quality parameters
• Define and track project milestones and ensure dependencies are understood and accepted by the relevant owners
• Remove barriers and lead resolution of issues/problems to enable teams to achieve the objectives
• Oversee the agreed budget and ensure tracking and measurement of costs as well as reporting on benefits
• Ensure projects adhere to the Hiscox Change Delivery Framework and foster project transparency as well as accurate and timely reports on project status, schedule and costs to the Portfolio Manager and PMO
• Manage projects across the entire UK change portfolio which may require managing multiple projects simultaneously and/or managing a series of dependent projects
• Provide support and input into the portfolio planning process by engaging in pre-project sizing, skillset and dependency mapping
• Build strong productive relationships within the business, the change team and with third parties in order to deliver effective solutions.

Our must haves

• More than 5 years Project Management experience and a track record of successfully delivering projects with significant technology dependency
• Excellent stakeholder, conflict and influence management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of working with people at all levels within and external to the business
• MS Project or other structured project management tools
• Have experience working as a Project Manager in a multiple project environment with challenging timeframes and deliverables
• Have had exposure to distributed teams and relationship building with stakeholders 
• Have exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to user acceptance testing, deployment and handover to BAU
• Knowledge of PM best practices, methodologies, and project governance principles.
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Proficiency in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and similar tools
• Proven experience and understanding of software delivery lifecycle
• Intellect and gravitas to influence and gain credibility with business personnel and management
• Be creative, proactive, logical and innovative and will not just accept the status quo
• Be highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast paced environment where the pace of response and leadership is critical to success

Our nice to haves

• Experience of:
  • working in the insurance industry
  • management of small to medium sized programmes
  • system integration implementation

Diversity and Hybrid working
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We have also learned over the past few years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.

We anticipate the successful candidate for this role will be in the office up to 2-3 days per week.

This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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