Job Details: Project Manager (FTC July 2025)
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Vacancy Name: Project Manager (FTC July 2025)
Vacancy No: VN556
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Hybrid - Borehamwood
About Us: Our Mission
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Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for the Project management of partner new business launches
* Managing both internal and client teams, to agree joint plans and ensure projects remain on track
* Managing Blockers, Issues and Risks to agree and ensure resolution or mitigation is in place
* Responsible for the successful completion of projects ensuring that realistic project, quality, change control and risk management processes are maintained as well as reporting issues directly to the Project Sponsor
* Ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned budget and to agreed timescales
* Preparing realistic, detailed and high quality project plans and subsequently tracking activities against these
* Providing regular and accurate updates and reports to stakeholders as appropriate
* Providing updates to Senior Management including Board level members
* Monitor spend versus budget, timescales and resources used, and take action where these deviate from agreed tolerances
* Coordinate resource (internally or externally) allocated to a given project in order to ensure that activities are delivered within appropriate timescale
* Escalation of resource conflicts where resolution is not possible
* Manages the change control procedure and assesses the impact of changes on the overall project implementation
* Manage projects in line with agreed Project Management methodology. Assists with the preparation of the project through the appropriate governance milestones
* The creation and maintenance of the mandatory project artefacts
* To carry out any other task associated with the role as reasonably requested
Successful Candidates Will Have:
* Project management experience of partner onboarding projects
* Managing both internal and client teams to agree joint plans and ensure projects remain on track
* Managing Blockers, Issues and Risks to agree and ensure resolution or mitigation is in place
* Conflict management and problem solving
* Executing project governance and reporting to agreed levels
* Communicating with Clients in relation to projects
* Building and directing phased and big-bang migration transitions
* Financial Services Regulated Industry projects
* Project management experience including leading projects of varying degrees of complexity, size and duration
* Managing projects from inception to completion within agreed Project Management Governance
* Facilitation of technical workshops
* Collaborating with System Architects to provide input into the solution design Managing system integration projects through all phases including analysis, design, development, test and rollout
* Managing both software development and software integration projects
* Managing business process change projects
* Adoption of a strategic, business focused approach at all times
* Good organisational skills
* Communicate, influence and challenge at board level
* Communicate at both technical and business levels
* A good working knowledge of MS Office (which must include MS Project)
* Report writing skills to convey ideas and conclusions in an easily accessible form to clients, third party providers and senior sponsors
* Insurance experience
* Setup and implementation of IT system monitoring and maintenance processes
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