Senior Project Manager, Client Delivery
Instanda, United Kingdom
Job Description
We’re pushing the boundaries of Insurance Technology.
INSTANDA is the world’s first no-code cloud-based platform, we are changing the way Insurers can design and deliver insurance products to market, allowing them to configure new products at speed completely disrupting the legacy norms in the industry.
INSTANDA has grown significantly in recent years, and we are now a team of 170+ employees primarily based in the UK and US, with partnerships that operate worldwide. We're continuing to grow our business, and Client Delivery is at the forefront of our growth plans.
Our company was built by looking at the world through a different lens and our culture today reflects that by encouraging you to be yourself, speak your mind, and share your opinions. We want people who want to push themselves, be part of something great, and be prepared to challenge if they think there is a better way. Collaboration sits at the heart of how we operate, it has fueled our growth enormously and our aim to be ‘world class’. People at INSTANDA not only have a real sense of shared ownership, but are granted share options to benefit from our long term success making everyone an owner of the business.
So if this sounds like the place you can thrive in and grow your career, please keep reading!
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ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a full-time Senior Project Manager to join our growing Client Delivery team. Reporting to the Project Lead, this role will be responsible for project management across our current portfolio of key clients. We are seeking a proactive, hands on and technically savvy individual who can manage changing priorities with a passion for client delivery.
Our clients face technological and resource constraints which mean that new insurance products and/or offerings could take a very long time to launch and be very costly. With INSTANDA however, insurers can build their products, set their distribution networks, test and launch their products in unprecedented timescales all without writing a single line of code. The person in this role will ensure our customers can successfully and easily do all these things and more! We have a lot to do and are looking forward to having a delivery focused project manager who enjoys understanding who our clients are, what they need, and when.
You will be working closely with Developers and Designers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testers, the Change team, and Leadership to design, specify, and develop solutions that align with the overall organisational strategy.
You will bridge the gap between business requirements and implementation of technology solutions. You will have an agile mindset willing to push the boundaries of current conventional thinking for architecture design, you will have experience of developing proof of concepts and mindful of market drivers, first mover advantage and not be constrained against existing systems, infrastructure or ways of working.
You will also translate the business strategy into concrete solutions and design and execute a set of solution blueprints that support that strategy. You will evaluate all technology options assess impact on the wider business or customer processes working with both business and IT stakeholders.
Responsibilities will include:
- Leading and managing the delivery of projects within scope, on budget and on-time
- Co-ordinating internal resources on client engagements and fully scoped projects
- Being the point of escalation for internal team members and the key client stakeholders
- Managing numerous projects concurrently and deploying an agile delivery model to meet all deliverables
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and reporting
- Create and maintain project documentation in collaboration with the PMO function
- Manage and mitigate against project risk
- Supporting the Project Lead on internal and client-facing activities
- Acting as a benchmark for the quality of project delivery within INSTANDA
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager, with a proven track record of delivering agile software projects within scope and budget and on-time; you will also have experience of working within the Insurance industry.
- As a seasoned Project Manager you will be able to demonstrate your high level of competence in project scoping, project planning, defining key project milestones, tracking and planning team and client-facing deliverables
- You’ll have experience of the end-to-end project lifecycle and you will have specific experience of platform or systems replacement projects where measuring interoperability and performance has been key to the project success</