6-Month Interim Principle Delivery Lead

£750 per day (Umbrella only)

6-month contract

London UK - Hybrid

Your new company
A multinational entity specialising in health insurance and healthcare services, it was founded in 1947 and has its global headquarters in the United Kingdom. Its primary offering is health insurance, complemented by a range of health services including hospitals, outpatient clinics, dental centres, and digital services. Employees at the company have the opportunity to be part of a team dedicated to promoting longer, healthier, and happier lives. The company values its workforce and fosters a supportive and inclusive work environment. As such, they are now urgently seeking an experienced interim Principle Delivery Lead to help them on this journey.

Your new role
In this role, you will lead the planning, shaping, and management of large, complex change initiatives to deliver defined business benefits and outcomes. You will create and manage optimised delivery plans, negotiate and set budgets, and identify and manage critical success factors for project delivery. You will drive the pace of delivery, lead appropriate delivery teams, and support change across multiple teams with varying maturities and methodologies. You will maintain high-quality relationships with executive sponsors and business leads, encourage effective working relationships with colleagues and third parties, and manage vendors effectively. You will coordinate sub-initiatives and their dependencies, ensuring clear management and control of scope, budget, and quality. You will apply experience from multiple parts of the product and project life cycle, use judgement to escalate issues, when necessary, ensure robust and measurable business/value cases, and take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers. You will ensure that all initiatives are managed in accordance with agreed standards, methods, and procedures, lead and role model the transformation and ways of working and manage stakeholder expectations.

What you'll need to succeed
In this role, you will be a strong and credible Change Leader with extensive experience in leading large delivery teams in business and IT change to deliver complex changes that drive significant business benefits. You will be highly results-oriented, focused on adding value to the organisation, and possess strong commercial acumen and broad business awareness. You will need strong stakeholder management skills across a wide range of senior stakeholders, including Board level reporting. You will thrive in pressurised environments, have a clear approach to decision making, and a tenacious approach to problem-solving, constantly searching and striving for effective solutions. Experience in a regulated (FCA/CQC) and compliance-led environment is desirable. You will be highly proficient in risk, resource, and cost/benefit management, and have extensive experience of multiple business and IT project delivery methodologies (e.g., MSP, Prince2, Agile, SDLC). You should be resilient, have strong negotiating and influencing skills, and knowledge of the healthcare insurance market is desirable.
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