Delivery Lead Salford

Location: Bupa Place, Salford Quays, Willow House, Staines or Angel Court, London

Salary: £56,000-£66,000 dependant on experience

Full time: 37.5 Hours per week

10% Management Scheme Bonus

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

At Bupa, we're passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences and driving commercial success. You'll have the opportunity to work on strategic initiatives that make a real impact on our customers and partners. This role is responsible for the delivery of change initiatives or workstreams of larger complex change initiatives, employing the appropriate identified delivery methodology (e.g. waterfall or agile). You will be working with business leads, business stakeholders and where appropriate Principle Delivery Leads, to define, plan, and deliver the defined outcomes in line with business & performance unit strategies.

How you'll help us make health happen:

• Leadership of the planning, shaping and management of change initiatives or workstreams in line with the identified delivery methodology to deliver defined business benefits & outcomes, including creating and managing optimised project plans, budgets, critical success factors and key milestones for all workstreams.
• Lead the appropriate project and workstream teams in a matrix approach, negotiating and influencing with resource managers to ensure they are optimised to achieve the agreed outcomes.
• Ensure high quality and challenging relationships with Executive Sponsors and Business Leads (and other senior leaders across the business) to achieve effective and efficient delivery of the defined business outcomes.
• Encourage effective working relationships with colleagues across Bupa and third parties, motivating them to gain their commitment, support and resource to deliver project work.
• Effectively engage and manage vendors, focussing on strong delivery capability and cost efficiency opportunities for the initiative as well as Bupa holistically.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Experience in business and IT change to drive significant business benefits.
• Results oriented and focussed on adding value to Bupa.
• Strong commercial acumen and broad business awareness.
• Must be able to demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different senior stakeholders, including Board level reporting.
• Must be able to thrive in pressurised environments, with a clear approach to decision making and tenacious approach to problem solving, constantly searching and striving for effective solutions.
• Experience of working in a regulated (FCA/CQC) and compliance led environment is desirable.
• Must have a tenacious approach to problem solving, constantly striving for effective solutions with the customer at the heart of everything.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Bupa medical insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available.
• Various other benefits and online discounts.

We encourage all our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.