Senior Project Manager
Financial Services, Insurance desirable.
London (Hybrid)
We are partnered with a leading global Insurance company who are seeking a Senior Project Manager
In this pivotal role, you will:
* Utilise your generalist Project Management experience across the insurance industry, to lead on a range of cutting-edge projects in the London Market
* Use your leadership and mentoring skills to help manage and develop the wider change team.
* Take a leading role in driving best practice, governance and help set the strategic direction of the change function.
Key Responsibilities:
* Support the PM Practice Lead with people management and mentoring of other Project Managers in the function.
* Take a leading role in driving best practice, continuous improvement across the division.
* Lead a number of change initiatives as project manager, across all appropriate workstreams including technology, regulatory and process change.
* Planning and designing project(s), workstreams and appropriate governance.
* Engage with business stakeholders, wider change teams and subject matter experts (SMEs) to define and agree project approach, project plans and costs.
* Monitors and reports project status against business case, plan, specific milestones.
* Proactively monitoring overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action.
* Learns from previous experience by participating in post implementation reviews, lessons learned sessions and knowledge share/peer reviews
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Key Experiences and Skills:
* Proven experience leading complex change projects ideally within the insurance sector, with deep knowledge of regulatory, technical, and business change
* Outstanding stakeholder management skills: the ability to influence, challenge the status quo, and deliver results.
* Expertise in utilising a range of project delivery methodologies.
* Strong planning and decision-making abilities, ensuring you consistently meet deadlines and deliver results
* Experience mentoring other PMs or desirably leading them through projects or programmes of work.
Personal Specification:
* Passion for project management and change deliver in the financial services sector
* A growth mindset with the ambition to continuously drive improvement.
* Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
* A natural ability to apply a pragmatic and methodical approach to problem solving.
* Creative thinker with a collaborative mindset to problem solving.
For more information, please apply below.