Project & Implementation Manager

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Project & Implementation Manager

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK (London)

Description

Project & Implementation Manager / Project Manager

London

Hybrid, two days in office

Permanent

We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd's, Europe and North America.

Due to growth, our Head of Change is looking for an experienced Project or Programme Manager to manage a significant programme of work involving significant process changes across our core business . This programme will span working with stakeholders across Europe and North America.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Project or Programme Manager with outstanding stakeholder management ability to step up to the programme level, and make an impact in one of the fastest growing insurance services firms.

Responsibilities
• Working across various stakeholders to develop clear project plans for strategic and operational projects - driving the roll out of core transformation initiatives
• Working on complex business needs and solutions - ensuring that change is fully understood and embedded within the business
• Ability to identify and manage cross dependencies with other technology and business transformations already in flight across the business.
• Supporting the build and creation of project management and change capability across the business
• Critically reviewing and assessing plans to understand how delivery can be enabled, within overall landscape of ongoing business change
• Prioritisation and management of time and resource across the delivery of multiple projects
• Building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels - representing the change team centre of excellence
• Identification and progression of business improvement opportunities
• Clear reporting of project progress, including production of board-level report inputs
• Development of clear project delivery tracking methods to be used internally across the group

Candidate requirements
• A track record of successful and varied project and/or programme delivery in the insurance industry - including managing multiple projects at once
• Project management qualifications and discipline would be favourable, particularly PMP, Agile and JIRA use
• Experience of successfully applying methodology and tools in a variety of practical situations, adapting style and method where required
• Outstanding stakeholder management up to C-suite, and delivery through a network of contacts
• Effective management of cost control and project budget management
• Resilient and able to work under pressure
• Coaching skills, to enable successful delivery through others
• Fitting in with our culture and values. We are collaborative, progressive, authentic, empowered and value each other.

Benefits

Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.

As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.

• Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.

Why join us?

At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.

To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.

We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.

Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
• competitive salary & annual bonus
• a health & wellbeing subsidy (GBP 20 per month) (from Day 1)
• a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
• private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
• life assurance (from Day 1)
• income protection (from Day 1)
• 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
• cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
• season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
• electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• hybrid working
• employee socials and recognition programme