Job Description

Job Type:

Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

Project Manager -Transformation

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Portfolio Management

York or London based + Hybrid working

The role

Working across the diverse Transformation portfolio, you will be responsible for the delivery of medium and large complexity projects, changes and workstreams of larger initiatives. You will plan and manage the lifecycle end-to-end, from Vision to Outcome Realisation, but could also pick up a project or change at any stage of the lifecycle and see it through to completion.

As a member of the Transformation team, you will champion the Transformation agenda and best practices both within IT and the Business and lead continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring that we capture key lessons to improve our project management & Transformation capability.

As a Project Manager you will:

• Lead medium to large projects or workstreams within a programme / portfolio.
• Define project scope, deliverables, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Manage the projects using the Change Delivery Framework and tools in place to agreed time, quality and cost ensuring impacts beyond the technical delivery are included e.g., Business change, training, service integration.
• Work with the Project Sponsor to build a robust business case for each project, clearly defining the key outcomes, benefits and measures and submit for approval.
• Work with the sponsor and business stakeholders to help transform their objectives into tangible deliverables, outcomes, and clearly defined and measurable benefits.
• Manage project scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost and quality parameters.
• Control and management of project budget, escalating where required any deviations in a timely manner.
• Collaborative change management activities including creating stakeholder, communication and learning plans, business readiness and adoption and embedding / sustaining activities.
• Understand and be experienced in PM best practices, methodologies, and project governance principles.
• Have extensive experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Proactively manage risks, issues, actions and decisions and appropriately escalate to sponsors/steerco when required.
• Proactively manage resources, including external vendors and manage and monitor resource demand ensuring resources are committed and address availability issues.
• Develop & manage a detailed project delivery plan identifying Critical Path and key Inbound/Outbound dependencies and managing these accordingly to ensure successful delivery
• Close projects, ensuring that we capture key lessons to transition them into continuous improvement.

Key Skills/Experience:

• As a guide only, 8yrs+ Project Management experience delivering change. Those with less years but the right level of knowledge will naturally be considered.
• Ideally experience working in Insurance or Financial Services company but other industries considered
• Formal Project Management qualification ( MSP or PMP preferable) or membership (e.g. APM, PMI) desirable.
• Strong project governance, control and reporting
• End-to- end software development life cycle (SDLC) experience is desirable
• Change Management qualification (e.g. APMG) advantageous
• Have experience of successfully delivering complex change with competing priorities.
• Have experience of managing multiple concurrent projects of differing scale and scope
• Have practical experience of planning and resource scheduling within the project process
• 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
• Have strong knowledge and experience of business process improvement and operational efficiency
• Awareness of commercial management processes

About Hiscox

As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.

We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.

Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.

Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.

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.

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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