Senior Agile Project Manager III

Job Description:

Title: Senior Agile Project Manager III

Company: Everest Advisors (Uk), Ltd.

Job Category: Technology

About Everest:

Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish. We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity. We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world.

Everest is hiring a Director, Delivery Lead to drive high-impact London Market technology delivery for Everest Global Markets across underwriting workflow, market platform integrations, pricing, policy administration, data, reporting, and regulatory change.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of a portfolio of London Market technology initiatives from planning through implementation and transition to BAU.
• Own delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets, resources, and governance.
• Run agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery approaches based on the needs of the initiative.
• Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to shape priorities, manage backlogs, and link delivery to OKRs and measurable business value.
• Prepare crisp senior-level reporting, including RAG status, SteerCo packs, delivery dashboards, financial summaries, risks, issues, and decisions required.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, impediments, and cross-team dependencies before they impact delivery.
• Coordinate delivery across business, engineering, QA, architecture, data, operations, vendors, and global delivery teams.
• Use delivery metrics and KPIs to improve transparency, predictability, team performance, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise technology standards, architecture governance, information security, regulatory expectations, and operational readiness.
• Champion and innovate opportunities to leverage AI to accelerate project delivery speed and quality.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong proven delivery capability across complex technology change, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.
• Deep understanding of London Market insurance, specialty insurance, Lloyd's, delegated authority, or broader commercial insurance processes.
• Experience with underwriting workflow, placement platforms, quote-to-bind, policy administration, bordereaux, bureau processes, downstream reporting, or regulatory change.
• Confident applying agile, lean, hybrid, and traditional project delivery models in the right context.
• Hands‑on experience with Jira, Confluence, Tempo, PPM, and delivery reporting dashboards.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, negotiation, and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders and drive clear decisions.
• Clear, concise communicator who can simplify complex delivery topics for executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Data-led mindset with the ability to use metrics to improve delivery performance and predictability.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities, distributed teams, and shifting demands.
• Strategic enough to see the bigger picture and hands‑on enough to unblock delivery.

Professional Experience and Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Agile Project Management, Programme Management and managing portfolios of smaller projects is essential.
• Proven track record delivering complex technology change in insurance, financial services, or regulated environments.
• London Market, Lloyd's, and specialty insurance experience is essential.
• Experience of implementing Underwriting Workbench platforms for the London Market and integrations with Whitespace and PPL are essential.
• Experience in enabling teams to use AI throughout the Software Delivery Lifecycle to increase productivity is essential.
• Experience managing vendors, contractors, distributed teams, and global delivery models.
• Qualifications such as Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMP, or PRINCE2 or a degree in computer science/IT is advantageous but not essential.

Success in this Role Looks Like

• Clear plans, strong governance, effective communications, and confident senior stakeholder engagement.
• Focused teams, fast issue resolution, and sustained delivery momentum.
• Transparent reporting on progress, risk, budget, priorities, and decisions.
• Delivery outcomes that are aligned to Everest Global Markets business priorities, regulatory expectations, and e