Project Manager

2 months ago

Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom Hiscox Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Change Delivery team at Hiscox. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading change projects across the UK business, ensuring successful delivery of projects that drive business value.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead project management activities, including benefit identification, plan management, tracking and reporting of delivery progress, and identification, evaluation, and resolution of risks, issues, dependencies.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create stakeholder, communication, and learning plans, and ensure business readiness and adoption.
  • Define resource plans and work closely with internal teams, stakeholders, and vendors to manage project delivery activities.
  • Manage project scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters.
  • Define and track project milestones and ensure dependencies are understood and accepted by relevant owners.
  • Remove barriers and lead resolution of issues/problems to enable teams to achieve objectives.
  • Oversee the agreed budget and ensure tracking and measurement of costs, as well as reporting on benefits.
  • Ensure projects adhere to the Hiscox Change Delivery Framework and foster project transparency, with accurate and timely reports on project status, schedule, and costs.
Requirements
  • More than 3 years of Project Management experience in the financial services industry, with a track record of successfully delivering projects.
  • A passion for leading people through change.
  • Excellent stakeholder, conflict, and influence management skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of working with people at all levels within and external to the business.
  • MS Project or other structured project management tools.
  • Experience working as a Project Manager in a multiple project environment with challenging timeframes and deliverables.
  • Exposure to distributed teams and relationship building with stakeholders.
  • Exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to user acceptance testing, deployment, and handover to BAU.
  • Knowledge of PM best practices, methodologies, and project governance principles.
  • Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Proficiency in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and similar tools.
  • Intellect and gravitas to influence and gain credibility with business personnel and management.
  • Be creative, proactive, logical, and innovative, and will not just accept the status quo.
  • Be highly results-driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a fast-paced environment where the pace of response and leadership is critical to success.
Desirable Skills
  • Experience of working in the insurance industry.
  • Management of small to medium-sized programmes.
  • System integration implementation.
About Hiscox

We care about our people and are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work-life balance, with office hub days 2-3 days per week. 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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