Senior Project Manager – Business Change Delivery

Direct Line Group is one of the UK's largest insurance companies and home to some of the best-known brands including Direct Line, Churchill and Green Flag.

What you'll do:

As a Senior Project Manager you will manage the successful initiation, planning and design of large-scale Business Change projects following agreed business objectives, budgets, benefit expectations and time frames. You will lead complex projects through to closure demonstrating the ability to foresee potential issues throughout delivery to build effective controls and actions to ensure that the project maintains a delivery outcome against the defined project objectives.

We are looking for significant drive, enthusiasm and a proactive approach to inspire stakeholder confidence in the ability of the project manager to meet the project objective.

• Scope project requirements and build an plan which articulates milestones and actions / owners for these to be achieved within agreed parameters of time, cost, quality and regulatory requirements.

• Ensure people, financial and commercial impacts of the project delivery are understood. Role will involve budget management.

• Provide monitoring of overall progress against the project plan, use of resources and initiating corrective action.

• Provide ownership and oversight of completion of required actions for each milestone through hands-on task completion delegation where required.

• Build trust and sustain relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the business both internal and external.

• Deliver clear and messages to a range of stakeholders across the organisation whilst maintaining an open and transparent dialogue throughout the life of the project.

• Risk management with the ability to pre-empt potential issues and look to build mitigation to prevent situations arising.

• Manage project governance controls, including: Change Control, Risk, Issue and Benefits, Cost & Dependency Management, Business Readiness, Delivery Assurance and Project Closure.

• Awareness of potential interdependencies with other projects and their impact.

• Independent networking to build a support system across all key business areas.

What you'll need:

•           Experience managing 3rd party partnerships

•           Project management experience and experience delivering large, complex projects – circa 1 million +

•           Understanding of organisational challenges

•           Senior stakeholder management experience

•           PRINCE2/APMP/Agile practitioner qualification

Ways of Working

Our mixed model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. How much you'll be in the office depends on your role, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Read our flexible working approach here.

Benefits

We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle:

• 9% employer contributed pension

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover

• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

Being yourself

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

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