Project Manager- Merger & Acquisition

Position Summary:

The PM role is an integral part of the Divisional IMO Team and GCoE Change Team, which provides a range of important services to its Business including project/program management, Organisational Change, business analysis, and portfolio governance. Joining this team offers excellent opportunities for development, growth, and career progression.

The role is accountable to both Divisional and GCoE Business Leaders, Onshore Divisional Managers, involving regular and ad-hoc activities as required, while closely collaborating with other Project team members (both onshore and offshore). You should possess some knowledge of change, risk, or project management within an organization and have a strong interest in using project management applications and the Microsoft Office suite.

Primary Responsibilities

Managing the inception and initiation of projects in accordance with the GCoE Change agenda and M&A Framework, defining project approach, resource requirements and estimating project delivery timelines and cost

Defining and agreeing project scope, deliverables, timescale, quality, cost and benefits to ensure the business case can be articulated, understood and agreed

Defining, establishing and managing project structure, roles and teams to ensure efficient and effective project delivery

Planning, managing, monitoring and reporting on the work of (sometimes disparate) project teams to deliver the outputs to the agreed timescale, quality and cost criteria

Producing RAID logs and managing mitigation activities, including ongoing risk assessment

Working with key Business stakeholders across multiple geographies in order to clarify project outputs, and timescale, quality and cost criteria; build sustainable relationships to enable the achievement of project objectives

Providing leadership, direction and coaching to the project team

Working with Information Technology / external application vendors to include their costs, activities and deliverables within the overall project scope and approach, providing challenge and support to ensure technology related outcomes are achieved

Creating high level and detailed documents, using a mixture of pictorial and written means (within PowerPoint / Word) in order to effectively communicate with the project team, peers and stakeholders (including Executives and senior managers)

Assisting the GCoE Business Leaders, Operations team, and wider teams to support the GCoE change agenda, including taking ownership of specific activities identified during organisational strategic leadership meetings.

Proactively stay informed about industry trends and best practices to provide thought leadership in building a high-performing Change team aligned with the GCoE&aposs strategic objectives.

Support the broader Change Community by sharing insights, learnings and the insurance industry, ensuring projects and change initiatives are set up for success.

QUALIFICATIONS SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications:

Educated to degree level or equivalent desired

Project Management PMP, Prince 2 or MSP certification desired

Education:Any Graduate or Postgraduate

Licenses/Certificates:Any Project Management Certification such as, Prince 2 Practioner, APM, PMP and Agile Certifications

Work Experience

Technical Knowledge:

Very good understanding of project management techniques across Waterfall and Agile lifecycles

Knowledge ofInsurance / Financial Services experience

Excellent knowledge ofgeneral insurance (London Market / Lloyds and Industry)products and services, and in particular detailedunderstanding of legal / regulatory / risk principlesand practices relating to the insurance industry

Competent with Power BI advantageous

Project Management Tools such as, Microsoft Project, PlanView, or Smartsheet

Essential:

Over8 years of experience in Project Management, Business Operations, or Consulting teams.

Mandatory skills-Project Management, M&A, Integration Managementfor non-IT projects

Good organisational and planning skills

Ability to work in a complex environment and adapt to shifting priorities

Adept at setting own work schedule and monitoring and reporting progress against goals

Should have excellent communication in spoken and written English

Competent in Microsoft Tools Office Suite Advanced Word, Excel & PowerPoint skills