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SalaryInfrastructure Programme Manager - Insurance - Hybrid Working
Our client, a leading global Insurance firm, are currently looking to hire and Infrastructure Programme Manager, with experience in the Insurance sector, to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis.
Role Summary:
- This senior lead delivery role forms part of a distributed, global IT team that is responsible for the continued availability and support of an international on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
- Accountable for programme delivery and resource management.
- On-boarding of new technology aligning with organisational and technology strategies.
- Although London based, the role will be expected to work in a fast-pace environment as a globally expanding business, with regular interaction across international time zones, spanning 50 countries with over 16,000 employees.
- Managing delivery of Infrastructure capital investment portfolio ensuring successful delivery to both time and budget.
- As a senior role, it is expected that more complex, commercially significant and therefore more extensive projects will be managed within this role.
Job Specific Skills:
- At least 5 years' experience as an IT infrastructure and operational change Programme Manager.
- Demonstrable C-level governance and commercial management.
- Significant experience as a hands-on Project Manager to show demonstrable understanding of delivery process.
- Although this is a programme management role the Programme Manager will at times need to be hands-on in part to coach the wider team on best practice.
- Effective prioritisation across the delivery programmes to ensure that resource is utilised on the highest priority projects.
- Demonstrable experience of leading across mixed stakeholder groups communicating between non-technical and technical people.
- Demonstrable experience of mixed lifecycle projects demonstrate waterfall or agile practices where applicable.
- Demonstrable experience of building & leading a programme community based on collaboration between internal business stakeholders and multiple vendors.
- Experience demonstrating ability to manage across parallel implementation projects and dependent workstreams controlling scope, schedule and cost.
- Management of dependencies of varying complexity, planning and feeding into other programmes and portfolios.
- Ability to remove blockers and manage risks, commercials, budgets and people.
- Build and maintain programme momentum through a multi-year schedule across parallel projects and workstreams.
- Ability to support the programme sponsors by overseeing the delivery of their vision for the programme.
Technical Skills Required:
Must have demonstrable experience:
- Programme Management of large IT Infrastructure implementations within the insurance industry.
- Programme Governance and delivery Frameworks that support management across multiple related projects and workstreams.
- Programme & Project Manager skills, with either MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP.
- Delivery and management of programme budgets, often in excess of GBP5m.
- Delivery of large company rollout of Microsoft core technologies.
- Programme planning tools and techniques across scope, schedule and resources.
- Identification and management of programme assumptions, dependencies, risks and issues.
- Support & coach the programme team across a globally & culturally diverse community.
- Vendor management across a globally & culturally diverse community.
Desirable experience:
- Insurance industry experience, preferably London Market.
- In-depth knowledge and experience of Waterfall, Agile and other methods.
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft core technologies.
- In-depth knowledge of IT networking and other infrastructure concepts and technologies i.e. Azure, WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, VMware, SAN, SQL etc.
If this role would be a good fit for your skills and experience, please apply!
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