Programme Manager – Insurance Transformation

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About Hiscox UK

Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

About the job

The UK Transformation team is seeking to move forward at pace with the delivery of our largest and most complex pieces of change. We are now looking for Programme Managers to own and drive this and ultimately be at the heart of a truly significant and exciting transformation.

As a Programme Manager you will be responsible for managing all aspects of high profile initiative delivery. This will include ensuring their successful execution by meeting its agreed deliverables, business outcomes and committed benefits within tightly managed time, scope and cost thresholds. You will be responsible for mobilising and shaping the initiatives, onboarding the sub-teams and ensuring you have the right mix of skills to allow you to successfully land the outcomes.

Reporting into the Head of Transformation, you will be the lead change professional on your assigned initiatives and will be responsible for managing and maintaining support from senior stakeholders and executive sponsors across the teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Developing, refining and tracking of robust business cases based on clear scope, resource and third party requirements

• Creating and maintaining detailed and dynamic project plans, always with a tight focus on the desired outcome.

• Tracking financials and managing project(s) against tightly governed cost plans

• Engaging and driving delivery from multiple teams including implementation partners and/or other third party partners

• Identifying and resolving business and supplier issues in order to ensure that initiatives can be delivered on time, within budget and to quality targets

• Assessing and actively managing risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions associated with the delivery of the programme

• Ensuring key stakeholders, internally and externally, are aware of what is required and when

• Regularly reporting progress to senior stakeholders as required

• Build relationships and become a trusted delivery partner

• Run and actively participate in change governance forums and facilitate decision making through data driven insights

• Work closely with the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) to ensure the Portfolio aligns with EPM approach and standards

• Assemble and manage high performing project teams to achieve business outcomes

Requirements:

Experience

• Recognised project/portfolio/programme management qualification(s) and/or experience of having led projects, programmes, or portfolios ideally in an Insurance context

• Extensive experience managing challenging stakeholders up to Executive level

• Experienced working as a Programme Manager with multiple projects in an environment with challenging timeframes and deliverables.

• Experience managing the full project life cycle, from inception to user acceptance testing and initial live running

• Experience of detailed project planning and management, across people, process and multiple systems.

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

• Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a fast paced environment

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Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we're committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We also understand that working life doesn't always have to be 'nine to five' and we support flexible working wherever we can. No promises, but please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.

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