At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting projects to onboard partners and enhance customer experiences across Europe.
- Company: Join Zurich Cover-More, a global leader in travel insurance with a caring culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, competitive salary, health coverage, and travel perks.
- Other info: Diverse team with opportunities for professional development and work-life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the travel industry while growing your career.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in project management, ideally in insurance or regulated sectors.
The predicted salary is between 63353 - 74533 £ per year.
Location: Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Job Category: Program & Project Management
Where will your career take you next? Let’s find out together. At Zurich Cover-More, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we’re there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalised cover and specialist support.
This role is part of our Cover-More Europe team. Cover-More Europe provides insurance solutions through a number of different customer-facing brands across travel, car hire, specialty, and pet sectors in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the rest of Europe.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex partner onboarding and business migration projects across Europe, ensuring successful implementation within agreed timelines and budget.
- Manage the end-to-end implementation of partner onboarding and migration projects across Europe.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and delivery milestones.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including Product, IT, Finance, Legal, Operations, Customer Service, Risk and Compliance.
- Lead project governance activities, including status reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communications.
- Ensure key business requirements are delivered, including due diligence, data protection assessments, IT security reviews, legal agreements and operational readiness.
- Facilitate internal and external project meetings, providing clear updates, action tracking and progress reporting.
- Identify project risks and dependencies, implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with partners, vendors and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope and aligned to business objectives.
- Provide post-implementation support and manage subsequent project activity as required.
- Drive a customer-focused approach, ensuring positive outcomes for customers and partners throughout the delivery process.
What skills and experience you’ll bring on this journey:
- Proven experience managing end-to-end project implementations, ideally within insurance or another regulated industry.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a project delivery, business implementation, or project management role.
- Experience onboarding partners and delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes.
- Strong project management expertise, with knowledge of Prince2 and/or Agile methodologies preferred.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility across all levels of an organisation.
- Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with confidence engaging with both internal and external partners.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining high standards of delivery.
- Experience within insurance partnerships, MGAs, or insurance implementation projects would be highly advantageous.
Why you’ll love working with us!
- We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
- Job flexibility: Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home after an initial training period.
- Career growth: We’re committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
- Take the time you need, for you and your community: We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
- Investing in your health and your future: We offer a competitive health insurance package with comprehensive mental health coverage, access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a pension scheme with employer contributions.
- Diversity and inclusion: We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity.
The compensation shown reflects a national market range and the proposed salary for this position is £63,353 to £74,533 (pro-rated).
Project Manager (6 Month FTC) in Uxbridge employer: Cover-More Group
At Zurich Cover-More, we pride ourselves on being a leading employer in the travel insurance sector, offering a dynamic work environment in Uxbridge that fosters growth and collaboration. Our commitment to employee well-being is reflected in our flexible working arrangements, comprehensive health benefits, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion. Join us to be part of a global team dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the lives of travellers while advancing your career in a supportive and innovative setting.
