Project Manager

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox.

Company description: Hiscox is a diversified international insurance group with a powerful brand, strong balance sheet and plenty of room to grow. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Bermuda, Hiscox has over 3,000 staff across 14 countries and 34 offices. Structured by geography and product, Hiscox’s long-held business strategy has helped them grow from a niche Lloyd’s underwriter to an international insurance group with a powerful consumer brand.

Hiscox’s Purpose: “We give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions.”

Hiscox values:

• Courage; dare to take a risk
• Human; clean, fair, and inclusive
• Ownership; passionate, commercial, and accountable
• Integrity; do the right thing, however hard
• Connected; together, build something better

The role: Working across the diverse GES IT Portfolio, you will be responsible for the delivery of medium and large complexity projects, changes, and workstreams of larger initiatives. You will plan and manage the lifecycle end-to-end, from Vision to Outcome Realisation, but could also pick up a project or change at any stage and see it through to completion. As a member of the GES Change team, you will champion GES best practices both within IT and the Business and lead continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring that we capture key lessons to improve our change management capability.

As a Project Manager you will:

• Lead medium to large projects or workstreams within a programme/portfolio. Define project scope, deliverables, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Manage the projects using the Change Delivery Framework and tools in place to agreed time, quality and cost ensuring impacts beyond the technical delivery are included.
• Work with the Project Sponsor to build a robust business case for each project, clearly defining the key outcomes, benefits and measures and submit for approval.
• Control and management of project budget, escalating where required any deviations in a timely manner.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, actions and decisions and appropriately escalate to sponsors/steerco when required.
• Continuously assess expected project outcomes to ensure the project will meet the benefits.
• Close projects, ensuring that we capture key lessons to transition them into continuous improvement.
• Coach and support less experienced members of the team and business in change management and project delivery.
• Follow data and security processes.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Have experience of successfully delivering complex change with competing priorities.
• Be highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast paced environment.
• Have strong knowledge and experience of business process improvement and operational efficiency.
• Strong project governance, control, and end-to-end software development life cycle (SDLC) experience.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Possess strong relationship management and influencing skills.
• Demonstrate where they have strived for continuous improvement and personal growth.
• A proactive team player with a positive approach to work.
• Formal Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP) or membership (e.g. APM, PMI) desirable.
• Change Management qualification (e.g. APMG) advantageous.
• Ideally be educated to Degree level or equivalent.
• Ideally have experience delivering change in an Insurance or Finance company.

Diversity and Benefits: At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We have also learned over the past 2 years that working life does not always have to be in the office, we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. Hiscox is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

If you want to help build a brilliant future; work with amazing people; be part of a unique company culture; and enjoy great employee benefits that take care of your mental and physical wellbeing, come and join us.