Senior Project Manager

Senior Business Change Project Manager

UK Midlands

MUST HAVE FINANCIAL SERVICES

MUST HAVE

• Project & Change Management and Agile PM certifications.

MUST HAVE

• Relevant experience in the insurance industry
• General commercial and financial knowledge

As part of my clients Business Change team, be responsible for delivering change initiatives across a full life cycle.

Manage the transition of change

Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to embed change

• Senior Business Change Project Managers plan and coordinate initiatives from inception to delivery; managing activities, resources, budget and people to achieve desired outcomes and enable strategic initiatives
• They provide oversight and challenge to project operations, performance and viability in terms of outcomes, delivery, benefits and financial management
• They partner with stakeholders to deliver high value, strategically aligned customer outcomes, and achievable benefit realisation
• Using their understanding of change and delivery management methods and tools, they ensure efficient & effective project delivery

Key Responsibilities/Competencies:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the business and technology landscape and have a strong knowledge of the variety of distribution channel target operating models.
• Ensure project alignment to strategic pillars, roadmap and outcomes
• Align teams/stakeholders around a clear vision and outcomes, defining OKR's to continually measure progress/mitigate risk
• Actively ensure benefits are realised, tracking through delivery to completion, ensuring effective BAU handover post closure

Planning and Scheduling:

• Plan in accordance with Governance processes, within a variety of project/product delivery frameworks.
• Plan with foresight, applying lessons learned
• Track progress/milestones in-line with outcome related planning
• Proactively ensures that mitigating actions are developed and integrated into the plan
• Resource forecasting/Understand resourcing impacts to budget
• Identify/Assess risks to delivery
• Assess the ability of plans to deliver benefits

Change Assurance and Control:

• Actively assesses and communicates the impact of the change on the portfolio and provides challenge & insights back to the team
• Ensure best practice change management is Embedded throughout the life cycle
• Actively assess the impact of the change on the business, provides challenge & insights back to the team
• Articulate decisions/direction and ensure they are being reported to the correct level of delegated authority

Decision Making and Developing Solutions:

• Makes key decisions in tight timescales with available data, balancing risk and speed
• Respond to emerging info and re-evaluate decisions
• Develop practical solutions & implementation plans

Business Case development:

• Ensure stakeholder requirements are fully considered in the business case for change
• Effectively size the case for change, engage with stakeholders to determine measurable benefit plan, evidence cost and projected timeline for spend
• Identify and quantify challenges, impacts and risks to change delivery and integration and provide alternatives

Business Readiness:

• Leads stakeholder engagement and understands business readiness impacts on projects
• Develops business readiness plan/supports Change Manager in developing
• Partner with teams and stakeholders to coach, motivate, and collaborate around outcome delivery and blocker removal

Benefits Management:

• Ownership of benefits definition and management approach in the business case
• Identify and mitigate internal and external risks
• Define benefit profile and associated OKR's to ensure accurate progress tracking