Senior Project Manager Bournemouth
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About the Role
At LV= General Insurance (LV= GI), we go above and beyond to help our millions of customers look after what they love. Putting our people first, and our customer at the heart of everything we do, we’ve made it our mission to become Britain’s best-loved insurer.
Having joined the Allianz family, we’re proud to be one of the largest personal insurers in the UK.
Our purpose is ‘We secure your future’ for our employees, our customers and the wider society. This sits at the heart of our business.
We have some fantastic opportunities for experienced Senior Project Managers to join our Project Management community. These roles will work within our General Insurance portfolio which covers all of the Business Areas that we support such as Retail, Claims, Broker and Specialty and there will be opportunities to work across the whole portfolio.
Its an exciting time of change at AZP with a busy change roadmap and a variety of significant projects underway, collaboration is key. You will be an integral part of this evolution, keeping our customer-centric approach and putting the heart back into insurance as we develop new propositions from idea through to customer launch.
Working in an agile environment, you will be bringing energy to our strategies on key change for the business. This is a dynamic and fast-moving place to work, and with so many moving parts, you will need to be engaging, persuasive and the glue that holds different teams together.
You’ll be part of a highly-motivated team helping to ensure the business delivers its key strategic business goals, working with stakeholders to ensure we achieve the AZP vision to be the Best Loved..
About You
At AZP we thrive on working collaboratively, with each other and always with our internal and external customers at the heart of what we do. Good communication, both written and verbal is important, to lead and deliver the requirements of the projects you will become part of. You will thrive in multi-stakeholder projects, and be comfortable adapting your approach and language to work with colleagues of various disciplines and seniority.
You will already be a competent and effective Project Manager with a proven track record of managing large scale projects, and you will be able to apply that experience to your project teams as you support them.
You will be used to interacting with senior level stakeholders, presenting opinions and options, solving problems and influencing outcomes.
Ideally, you will have extensive experience managing projects, and have worked with a range of project/programme management frameworks inc. Agile, and this should be clearly evidenced in your CV, along with information of any Project Management qualifications held. You will have a good range of projects in your work history, and it would be a great advantage if you have worked across Financial Services before, particularly Insurance. You may have people management experience, but this is not essential and you will be comfortable working with external third parties and partners including technology providers.
Ways of Working
We are delighted to confirm that we are now a hybrid working business. Our office with flex model means that you will have the opportunity to work from home for up to 3 days per week and come into our office for 2 days – longer if you prefer to work in an office. Need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen
The role can be based at our LV=GI Bournemouth or Croydon office.
About the Rewards
We want you to love what you do that’s why we’ve put together a benefits package that recognises and rewards a job well done. To find out more about our bands, click to view our FAQ page here.
We’ll give you:
Flexible working opportunities – many of our employees job share or work part-time, flexi-time, or compressed hours. Our new hybrid working model now offers all employees the option to work from home 3 days a week and 2 days in the office.
30 days' holiday, with the option to buy up to 2 additional days
An excellent pension plan (please click here to read more about it)
An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
Private medical insurance which you can upgrade to family cover
Other flexible benefits including discounted retail vouchers and dental insurance
25% discount off our general insurance products including home, pet and travel as well as up to 50% discount on your car insurance
To find out more about our benefits and rewards, please click here.
AZP are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. We do not discriminate and we recognise and embrace that people work in different ways.
We value alternative viewpoints, celebrate individuality and foster a culture where everyone feels respected for their individual contribution and is able to bring their true self to work.
With the above in mind we accept applications from everyone regardless of your background, beliefs or culture however we especially welcome applications from women, people from ethnic minorities, people with a disability and people who are LGBT+ as these groups are currently under-represented in our organisation.
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