Fantastic opportunity to join a thriving London Market Insurance firm, initial 12 month contract.
Project Manager with strong expertise in handling large application migrations projects.
· Technical expertise in the area IT infrastructure and cloud platforms.
· Communication to application teams worldwide.
· Schedule workshops with application owners
· Planning of migration plan for applications globally.
· Managing a multi-vendor team.
· Implement tooling required for discovery, analysis, planning & migrations
· Agile delivery using Azure DevOps expected, however waterfall planning skills also necessary from time to time.
Required working experience & education
· At least 7+ of experience in successfully managing the delivering of multiple large IT projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, ideally in a global Finance/Insurance or regulated industry
· Managed global rollouts impacting companywide users
Working knowledge of Project/Programme Management, e.g., Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Prince2 and agile project management tools and methodologies
Required Skills and qualifications
Technical Must have
· Experience leading Infrastructure & Operations projects, with good oversight of Technologies across the Networks, Workplace and Data Centres disciplines.
· Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation.
· Demonstrable experience in setting up and driving successful global projects
· Demonstrated strong personal organizational skills and ability to coordinate the efforts of others globally in the successful delivery of projects.
· Excellent communication skills, strong experience in managing the diverging interests of various stakeholders.
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
· Proven ability to create meaningful reports and summarise project health status for stakeholder presentations.
· Proven ability to manage and track programme costs and budgets to agreed baselines.
· Strong attention to detail, with the ability to maintain high standards of hygiene across complex programs and ensure compliance with stringent governance requirements.
· Ability to drive a mixture of functional and geographic workstreams and coordinate step change delivery to the business in a unified way.
· Consulting and collaborative working style creating a culture of accountability and sharing.
· A self-motivated individual able to work with varying organisational and geographic styles to the end goal of unifying and standardising the delivery culture and capability.
· Fluent spoken and written English.
· Willingness to travel internationally.
Proficiency in project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
