Lead Project Manager - Data

Job Description

Summary of the roleWe are looking for an experienced Lead Project Manager to be a driving force for planning, managing and executing multiple data projects and programmes. You will help ensure programmes and projects coherence and integrity with business goals and strategy.Joining us as a Lead Project Manager, you will lead the team of hardworking project managers focused on building data products, who are looking to challenge the industry status quo. To be successful you will need to be consultative and collaborative and abilityto positively react to change.Responsibilities

• Support the planning and execution of programme and projects delivery strategy to meet business needs
• Help to designs, implements and develop programme and project framework
• Lead execution and maintenance of project plans and scope using standard tooling
• Responsible for project timings, budget, quality, resourcing and reporting
• Own the implementation of existing project delivery methods (process, standards, templates, reporting, etc.)
• Identify risks, highlighting these to relevant parties in good time and ensuring mitigating action is taken
• Apply appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Help to ensure project resources are used effectively
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation (e.g. PIDs, business cases, KPIs etc.)
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Support continuous improvement in project delivery practice
• Adopt industry best practices
• Lead an agile project management team and interfaces with in-house developers and third party suppliers
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Architects to maintain alignment and drive progress

RequirementsMust have:

• Experience of working as a Project/Programme Manager (in tech environment) or similar role (at least 4 years)
• Experience in working on data projects within a data platform environment (understanding of data, data warehousing and data tools)
• Financial Services experience (ideally Insurance)
• Demonstrable experience of large scale data projects/programmes delivery throughout the whole lifecycle (from start-up to benefits realisation)
• Vendor management experience
• Knowledge and experience of delivery in Agile projects
• Proficient user of Agile tooling (e.g. Atlassian Jira/Confluence, Azure Boards or Trello etc.)
• Consultative and collaborative
• Highly organised, with good planning/prioritisation/time management skills
• Analytical and able to solve problems
• Able to work flexibly to achieve tight deadlines/targets
• Able to positively react to change
• Customer focused approach
• Strong inter-personal skills

Advantageous:

• Understanding of London Market operations (Lloyds, IUA, LPSO, LPC etc)
• Understanding general and legal principles of insurance (e.g. Law of Agency)
• Awareness of the regulatory environment and requirements including e.g. FCA rules, data protection, money laundering, specific standards of insureds professional bodies
• Skilled at delivering highly complex solutions in the insurance/tech sphere