Project Coordination Specialist

4 weeks ago


York, York City, United Kingdom Hiscox Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Project Manager to join our team at Hiscox. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing change projects across the UK business, ensuring delivery is achieved through effective and efficient means.

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.
  • Collaborative change management activities including creating stakeholder, communication and learning plans, business readiness and adoption and embedding/sustaining activities.
  • Define resource plans and work closely with internal teams, stakeholders and vendors to manage the day-to-day and full end-to-end 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 the relevant owners.
  • Remove barriers and lead resolution of issues/problems to enable teams to achieve the 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 as well as accurate and timely reports on project status, schedule and costs to the Portfolio Manager and PMO.
  • Manage projects across the entire UK change portfolio which may require managing multiple projects simultaneously and/or managing a series of dependent projects.
  • Provide support and input into the portfolio planning process by engaging in pre-project sizing, skillset and dependency mapping.
  • Build strong productive relationships within the business, the change team and with third parties in order to deliver effective solutions.

Requirements

  • More than 3 years Project Management experience in the financial services industry and 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.
  • Have experience working as a Project Manager in a multiple project environment with challenging timeframes and deliverables.
  • Have had exposure to distributed teams and relationship building with stakeholders.
  • Have 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 very fast paced environment where the pace of response and leadership is critical to success.

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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