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Project Manager - 6 Month Contract

The Team
The Technology function is led by a CIO who manages a team of around 200 IT professionals. Reporting to the CIO are 4 CTO’s. This role forms part of the Group and Enterprise Services (GES) team who are accountable for the full life cycle of over 100 applications.

The role

Working across the diverse GES IT Portfolio, you will be responsible for the delivery of medium and large complexity projects, changes, and workstreams of larger initiatives. You will plan and manage the lifecycle end-to-end – from Vision to Outcome Realisation – but could also pick up a project or change at any stage and see it through to completion.

As a member of the GES Change team, you will champion GES best practices both within IT and the Business and lead continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring that we capture key lessons to improve our change management capability.

As a Project Manager you will;

• Lead medium to large projects or workstreams within a programme/portfolio.
• Manage the projects using the Change Delivery Framework to agreed time, quality and cost ensuring impacts beyond the technical delivery are included e.g., Business change, training, service integration.
• Work with the Project Sponsor to build a robust business case for each project, clearly defining the key outcomes, benefits and measures and submit for approval.
• Work with the sponsor and business stakeholders to help transform their objectives into tangible deliverables, outcomes, and clearly defined and measurable benefits.
• Control and management of project budget, escalating where required any deviations in a timely manner.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, actions and decisions and appropriately escalate to sponsors/steerco when required.
• Proactively manage resources, including external vendors and manage and monitor resource demand ensuring resources are committed and address availability issues.
• Continuously assess expected project outcomes to ensure the project will meet the benefits.
• Have attention to detail and ensure project activities are appropriately scoped and delivered.
• Close projects, ensuring that we capture key lessons to transition them into continuous improvement.
• Coach and support less experienced members of the team and business in change management and project delivery.
• Follow data and security processes.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Have experience of successfully delivering complex change with competing priorities.
• Have experience of managing multiple concurrent projects of differing scale and scope
• Have practical experience of planning and resource scheduling within the project process
• Be highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast paced environment where the pace of response and leadership is critical to success
• Have the intellect and gravitas to influence and gain credibility with Hiscox business personnel and management
• Have strong knowledge and experience of business process improvement and operational efficiency
• Strong project governance, control, and end-to- end software development life cycle (SDLC) experience
• Be creative, proactive, logical and innovative and will not just accept the status-quo
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Be able to adapt their style to their audience, providing detail or a high-level view depending on the situation
• Possess strong relationship management and influencing skills. Demonstrable experience of collaborating effectively with people at all levels within and external to the business
• Have personal drive, energy and commitment
• Demonstrate where they have strived for continuous improvement and personal growth
• Awareness of commercial management processes
• A proactive team player with a positive approach to work
• Ideally have formal Project Management qualification or membership
• Ideally have Change Management qualifications or membership
• Ideally be educated to Degree level or equivalent

Diversity and Benefits

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

We have also learned over the past 2 years that working life does not always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.

This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.

We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

We look forward to working with you.

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