Programme Manager (Reinsurance experience)

Programme Manager (Reinsurance Experience)

6 Month Contract

Via Umbrella

UK Based

Our Reinsurance client require a Programme Manager to help support on an exciting project for an initial 6 month contract.

Key Accountabilities:

• Programme Leadership: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of the global software implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
• Programme and Project Planning: Own and manage the overall global programme plan, ensuring the plan is clear, accurate and easily digestible, and the multiple workstreams are articulated. Support the project managers in the development of workstream project plans, including scope, schedule, budget, and resource allocation, to ensure timely and efficient delivery in line with the outcomes of the programme.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including c-suite stakeholders, external delivery partners and internal teams, to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Vendor Management: Oversee relationship with external suppliers. Ensure compliance with deliverables including timeline and budget, assess performance, and facilitate collaboration to meet business objectives.
• Scope Control: Stringently manage and prioritise scope throughout the programme delivery to ensure budget and timelines are protected. Proactively challenge any deviations and facilitate prioritisation and agreement of additional scope items through the programme SteerCo.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring proactive resolution of issues and challenges. Engage with Group Risk to undertake risk assessments and manage outcomes.
• Team Management: Provide leadership and guidance to workstream project teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment across all teams.
• Dependency Management: Identify and manage dependencies across the programme workstreams and any external influences to the delivery (eg suppliers, other projects or deliveries across the Group). Ensure dependencies and any mitigating actions are included in programme and workstream plans.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the highest standards of quality and compliance with the internal controls and risk management framework are maintained throughout the implementation process.
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare and present regular project documentation including status reports, Exec Board updates, standard project documentation and metrics to senior management and stakeholders.
• Governance: Ensure the effective governance of the project, including responsibility for the efficient running of the governance boards, and reporting to the executive board.
• Benefits Management: Support the business in the continual identification and reporting of benefits throughout the lifecycle of the programme

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Senior 'hands on' change leader with a proven track record in IT software delivery and digital transformation.
• Experience in the reinsurance industry, preferably in broking.
• Experience working with Trace / OpenTwins reinsurance broking platform.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment with high degrees of ambiguity.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal; collaborating with stakeholders with high expectations.
• An understanding of the importance of excellent customer service and a "can do" attitude.
• Proven leadership and ability to work well in a team environment, including meeting facilitation.
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Effective problem solving skills based on clear reasoning and sound rationale.
• Tactful, diplomatic and able to thrive in an ever-changing environment.
• Patience and empathy when dealing with customers and colleagues.
• Ability to work pro-actively, under pressure and independently with minimal direction.
• Commutable to London and happy to travel if required

If this role sounds of interest, please apply and I will call you to discuss.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.