Senior Delivery Lead

Senior Delivery Lead

Claims, Technology

London, Permanent

£100,000-£120,000

A leading global insurer is looking for a Senior Delivery Lead to be responsible for the planning, management and delivery of multiple cross-Portfolio initiatives. for implementing, maintaining and championing Agile practices at Portfolio level; progressing several priority initiatives covering multiple business functions, while working with the Technology Head of Portfolio and Operations Business Agility Lead to enhance Agile delivery capability.

The Technology team reports into the CIO.

Key Responsibilities

1. Work with stakeholders and suppliers to ensure new initiatives and deliverables are understood and implemented according to business needs and budgeted set within Technology globally.
2. Contribute to projects as required
3. Identify the relationships, dependencies and impacts of change on multiple systems and processes
4. Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
5. Stakeholder management - partner with the Product Owner and Operations organisation
6. Work effectively as part of an Agile team alongside the Product Owner, Scrum Master etc
7. Ensure deliverables are accurately identified and estimated.
8. Run, manage, and close down projects and other initiatives in accordance with guidance from the Agile PMO.
9. Liaise with the Business Agility and Operations functions to engage and manage stakeholders
10. Champion the measurement and adoption of products and initiatives through working with teams to implement tools and techniques to support this.

Skills

ESSENTIAL - solid experience in delivering multiple streams of projects with both business and technical teams.

ESSENTIAL - managing complex cross-Portfolio deliveries with global contributors and for global teams.

1. Salesforce or other CRM capability and functionality
2. Understanding of the Underwriting and Distribution functions within a London Market or European Insurer
3. Insurance, Reinsurance and London Market experience

Essential:

1. Proven track record of delivering technical and business changes in global organisations
2. Extensive experience in program & project standards, governance and methods
3. Excellent communication and presentation skills
4. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
5. Experience of managing multiple teams and initiatives.
6. Experience of systems migration and integration
7. Experience of working within an Agile environment with global delivery teams
8. Comfortable working with 'C' level stakeholders in a matrix managed organisation
9. Demonstrable experience of internal and external stakeholder engagement (including vendors)