At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a major insurance platform migration to a modern cloud environment.
- Company: Join Vantage Point Global, a diverse and inclusive employer.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model with travel opportunities and potential contract extension.
- Other info: Ideal for those who thrive in complex, client-facing roles.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of a critical transformation in the insurance industry.
- Qualifications: 10 years' experience in programme management and strong insurance knowledge required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 77495 £ per year.
Location: UK-wide hybrid, with travel to client sites as required
Contract: Initial 6 months, with potential extension to 12 months
Start date: August 2026
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager or Programme Director to lead a complex platform migration programme for a major insurance client. This is a high-profile role supporting the migration of a legacy insurance platform onto a modern cloud-based environment. The programme sits across multiple stakeholder groups, including an insurance provider, a major banking partner, internal technology teams, and senior business stakeholders.
The client needs someone who can bring structure, confidence, and commercial judgement to a complex delivery environment. This is less about being the deepest technical expert in the room and more about being the person who can bring people with them, manage senior relationships, ask the right questions, and keep delivery moving.
You will act as the bridge between the insurance organisation and its strategic partner, helping to strengthen programme governance, improve stakeholder confidence, and ensure the migration is delivered with clarity and control.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading a complex insurance platform migration from legacy technology onto a cloud-based environment
- Managing programme delivery across business, technology, operational, and third-party teams
- Acting as a senior client-facing lead, building confidence with senior stakeholders and external partners
- Providing structure, governance, and delivery discipline across a complex programme landscape
- Translating between business, insurance, and technology stakeholders to keep priorities aligned
- Managing risks, issues, dependencies, plans, governance forums, and senior reporting
- Supporting the client in strengthening its delivery capability and stakeholder engagement
- Ensuring delivery remains commercially aware, outcome-focused, and well-controlled
- Helping teams make practical decisions in an environment with competing priorities and senior visibility
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience as a Programme Manager, Programme Director, or Senior Delivery Lead
- Around 10 years’ experience in complex change, transformation, or technology delivery
- Strong insurance domain knowledge, ideally across general insurance, underwriting, policy platforms, or insurance operations
- Proven experience managing senior client and partner relationships in a complex environment
- Experience delivering technology-enabled change, ideally including platform migration, cloud migration, or legacy modernisation
- Ability to operate confidently between business and technology teams
- Strong governance, planning, risk, issue, dependency, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience facing off to senior stakeholders where delivery confidence, control, and credibility matter
- A pragmatic, commercially aware approach to programme delivery
- Willingness to travel to UK client sites as required
Experience that would be useful
- General insurance experience, particularly underwriting, policy administration, or broker/intermediated insurance environments
- Experience in banking, bancassurance, financial services partnerships, or regulated client delivery
- Previous work on cloud migration, platform replacement, core system transformation, or legacy modernisation programmes
- Experience working with major insurers, banks, consultancies, or technology delivery partners
- Exposure to assurance, governance, remediation, or delivery recovery environments
- Experience with RSA-style insurance environments, underwriting platforms, or complex insurance technology estates
You will suit this role if you are calm, credible, and comfortable stepping into complexity. You do not need to be a hands-on architect, but you do need enough technology delivery experience to understand the moving parts, challenge plans, and keep teams honest. The real value is in your ability to manage senior stakeholders, bring order to a messy programme, and build confidence across the client and partner landscape. You will need strong insurance literacy, good commercial judgement, and the confidence to represent the client well in a senior, externally facing environment.
Why this role?
This is a chance to step into a visible, business-critical platform migration programme at a key stage of delivery. You will play a central role in improving programme control, strengthening engagement with senior stakeholders, and supporting a major insurance transformation. For someone who enjoys complex, client-facing delivery work, this is a proper grown-up programme role, with plenty to get your teeth into.
Vantage Point Global is a fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent and welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
Programme Manager/Director - Insurance Platform Migration - UK hybrid employer: Vantage Point Global
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