Project Manager

1 month ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom PIB Group Full time

**Job Purpose**:
To lead multiple business change projects, helping deliver key strategic items across the Underwriting Division of PIB Group.

The role will focus on delivering the against objectives agreed with the project sponsor in collaboration with key stakeholders around the business, as well as managing any relevant third-party suppliers, to ensure that the project is delivered on time and to budget and meets the right quality criteria. The role holder will be expected to support analysis work and understanding / mapping of requirements alongside project and programme management; this is a varied and hands-on position with a high degree of responsibility and autonomy in our change function.

The Project Manager will work to support business functions in the delivery of change initiatives, as a pivotal business partner to key business areas to ensure engagement with change and successful delivery of their initiatives.

The location of this role is flexible, ideally we are seeking someone in the Southwest/South East or Midlands area.

**Responsibilities**:

- To organise, manage and control business and IT project teams to deliver large tech transformation projects and programmes.
- To support significant business transformation / change programmes through project management oversight providing guidance and analysis support where required to project teams.
- Set, deploy and demonstrate effective governance controls in line with PIB Group Change policy.
- Understand, analyse and challenge where necessary the business processes and requirements of users/stakeholders during initiation of the project.
- Work closely with workstreams/project team to agree robust, realistic, and agreed project plans.
- Managing capacity and scheduling resources of technical engineers, delivery partners and suppliers
- Develop and maintain project documentation.
- Provide regular project status updates to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Coach team members on Agile principles and best practices.
- Continuously improve project processes and methodologies.
- Take ownership and responsibility to ensure all project constraints, actions, risks, dependencies, and issues are identified and then managed.
- Demonstrably be highly collaborative, motivated and delivery focused.

**Qualifications**:

- APMQ, Prince2 or equivalent

**Skills & Experience**:

- At least three years' experience as a project manager working on change projects, either in a commercial or public sector environment.
- Excellent ability to communicate with all levels of stakeholders confidently and effectively to build trusted relationships throughout the lifecycle.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Facilitate project team meetings.
- Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
- A self-sufficient individual, able to work autonomously with little to no supervision.
- Qualifications in APMQ, Prince2 or equivalent would be desirable.
- A strong working knowledge and experience of operating Waterfall and/or Agile projects.
- Previous experience managing projects within financial services.
- Strong working knowledge of MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Project
- Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and methodically.
- Very strong communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- High impact presentation skills, with an attention to detail
- Planning, organising, and managing skills, and ability to prioritise.
- Desirable - Previous experience managing projects within financial services

**Further information**:
As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -- Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
- Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
- Company pension scheme
- Very generous maternity and paternity leave packages
- A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
- Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
- Referral schemes
- Discounted rates on PIB products
- We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
- If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to 'give something back' interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
- PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB's carbon footprint.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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