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Agile Project Manager (People, Payroll and ERP)

Manchester or London

Flexible / Hybrid working options (up to 3 days WFH)

Permanent

£60 - £75k + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

Full time, 35 hours per week

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

Working in our Group function you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care not just in the UK but around the globe.

No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day, by helping shape the strategic direction of our business around the world.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

Role Overview

As Agile Project Manager role you will support the delivery of change. Working with an agile mindset you will be responsible for a mixture of project management and scrum mastering for the implementation of new products, enhanced features to existing products and the continuous improvement and maintenance of all supported applications and processes.

What you’ll do:

• Effectively manage the delivery of change from initiation to roll-out to meet successful business outcomes
• Understand macro-objectives and outcomes required while acting as an agent for change, and a driver of change
• Create, maintain and manage project plans including resource requirements, dependencies, risks and link to outcomes
• Work collaboratively with the product / project team and beyond to maintain a resource demand forecast and optimise resource utilisation
• Effectively engage and manage vendors and third parties
• Use judgement to determine when it is necessary to escalate through established escalation channels in a timely manner
• Ensure that change is managed in accordance with agreed standards, methods and procedures
• Define sprints, objectives, contents in conjunction with the product owners and Technical Delivery Managers
• Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders at various levels

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience working in technical delivery teams delivering a large project or a number of small projects simultaneously.
• Subject matter experience in technologies to support back office functions or technologies for automation and data management
• Detailed knowledge of technology project delivery methodologies including Agile, Scrum Mastering, waterfall as well as hybrid SDLC’s
• Demonstrable experience as a scrum master in successful delivery programmes
• Knowledge of the scrum framework and Kanban / Flow
• Have the ability to thrive in pressurised environments, with a clear approach to decision making
• Proficiency in risk, resource and cost management.
• Hold excellent negotiating and strong influencing skills across stakeholders, colleagues and external vendors

Why Bupa?

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

· 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

· Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

· An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

· Annual performance-based bonus

· Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

· Various other benefits and online discounts

Diversity and Inclusion

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path.

Welcome to a place that celebrates you.

This isn’t where you've been.

This is where you're going.

This is what we have belief in.

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