Project Manager

**Job Title: Project Manager - 4 vacancies**
**Contract Type: 12-month FTC**
**Location: Eastleigh**
**Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 depending on experience**
- **Please note - We operate a Hybrid working model where you will be required to attend the office in Eastleigh approximately 1 day per week. The remainder of the time you will be working from home, supported by necessary equipment.**_

**Main Responsibilities as Project Manager**:

- You will ensure that the project is managed and governed in adherence to the Ageas Change Framework.
- Ensure that the project produces a result capable of achieving the benefits defined in the projects business case.
- Day to day project management and control activities by coordinating others to undertake the work, as well as contributing to the delivery of tasks, when relevant and appropriate
- Managing stakeholder relationships and communication in accordance with the agreed communication plan
- Clearly and regularly communicating progress, as well as any issues and risks, to the relevant stakeholders
- Oversight of work stream / delivery team leads who are responsible for delivering some, or all, of the project products/deliverables
- Ensuring that the products/deliverables have been tested and that they meet the defined and agreed acceptance criteria, by;
- Ensuring that the transition of the project from delivery into operational working and support is complete, within agreed acceptance criteria and aligned with the Stage Gate

**Skills and experience you need as Project Manager**:

- Able to make balanced and commercially sound decisions within the context of a project's strategic objectives.
- End to end experience of the project lifecycle.
- Experience of software development lifecycle, technical infrastructure delivery and working in a regulated Financial Services environment is advantageous but not a necessity.
- Excellent analytical skills, the ability to work under pressure and to business critical deadlines
- Expertise in setting and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Able to maintain a high degree of customer / client / sponsor satisfaction and professionalism.
- Demonstrates customer-centric approach, able to build and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with stakeholders
- Proven ability to solve complex queries, able to easily grasp and communicate complex ideas in a timely manner.
- Demonstrable ability to work as a part of a team and foster good working relationships internally and externally.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills, able to control and schedule workload and successfully meet deadlines.

**Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Project Manager role based in Eastleigh**:

- A competitive pension for which Ageas will pay twice the amount.
- Generous amount of holidays with the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
- Annual Salary review.
- Discretionary annual bonus based on personal and company performance.
- Life assurance of 4 x salary with the option to flex up.
- Return to work programme scheme.
- Support groups
- well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

**About Ageas:
**We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants witha disability who meet the minimum role criteria).
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, includingfull-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.