Markel
Change Delivery - Project Manager
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Change Delivery - Project Manager
Project Manager – Change Delivery (International) at Markel
Become a key player in our change delivery team and drive impactful projects for Markel, one of the Fortune 500’s leading global groups.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Project Manager to lead critical initiatives across international regions. Whether it’s product launches, acquisitions, new distribution channels, or operational efficiency programmes, your role will be to:
- Breakthrough ambition: We push ourselves forward to enable better outcomes for our customers and employees worldwide.
- Global influence: In a diverse, inclusive culture that thrives on collaboration across borders and functions.
- Meaningful impact: Transform strategies into successful business achievements.
Our Change Delivery team supports the Board and executive management—connecting visionary strategy with tailored business solutions.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Project Manager, you’ll be instrumental in driving international business outcomes by:
- Leading large-scale projects that align with Markel’s strategic goals, ensuring delivery within time, cost, quality, and risk tolerances.
- Managing stakeholder engagement from initiation to benefit realisation, including:
- Reporting and presenting progress
- Mobilising and inspiring project teams
- Tracking risks and developing contingency plans
- Delivering financial stewardship—resourcing, budgeting, and proactively adjusting for success.
- Orchestrating governance, change control, and customisation to align with business needs.
- Maintaining awareness of project dependencies and their operational or market impacts.
- Conducting lessons-learned reviews to refine future approaches.
- Partnering with IT stakeholders to ensure technical standards and smooth transitions into business-as-usual.
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Your work will directly shape how Markel empowers our clients and employees to seize new opportunities.
Our Must-Haves
You bring experience in:
- Project Management: Hands-on portfolio of successfully delivered projects, with an understanding of commercial outcomes.
- Process & Vendor Management: Experience negotiating and managing contracts and external partners.
- Change & Improvement: Direct experience in leading business change or optimisation initiatives.
- Certification: Prince2 (or equivalent recognised qualifications) along with demonstrated proficiency in MS Office applications for project planning and reporting.
- Financial & Planning Skills: A strong ability to justify costs, manage budgets, and develop business cases.
- Performance Demonstration: Excellence in analytical problem-solving and attention to detail, with a track record of calendar-based planning.
Desirable but not essential:
- Experience with Agile methodologies (for project approach).
- Familiarity with specialist industries (insurance, reinsurance, or advisory consultancy).
About Markel
Markel is a diverse, global enterprise with operations in over 20 countries and a mission: "to make the world a better place." Guided by values like innovation, teamwork, and grit, we:
- Grow through partnership (we thrive best as part of a greater team).
- Celebrate progress—because improvement is an ongoing journey.
- Think bold—since collective vision moves mountains.
Our culture values psychological safety, flexibility, and advancement, aligning rewards with aggression towards goals—not busy detours.
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What’s in It for You?
Here’s how we reward meaningful work:
- Competitive Remuneration:
- Base salary + annual bonus.
- Strong career development framework and performance multiplier.
- Work-Life Balance:
- 25+ paid holidays (plus bank holidays).
- Flexible options for holiday currency (buy/sell).
- ifornia Pension:
- Generous company-matching pension contribution.
- Health & Welfare:
- Comprehensive private medical and dental cover.
- Life assurance + travel insurance.
- Season Ticket Loan (+ subsidised gym).
- Continuous Growth:
- Unlimited training budget—(to learn and grow).
- Sponsorship programs in partnership with universities.
Why Join Markel?
We’re his circuit for people from all walks of life, who want to push limits and build meaningful careers. You’ll always have the room to grow, the challenge to aim for bigger, and the mentorship to get there.
Are you ready? We’d love to meet you.
Key Considerations
Diversity & Inclusion
Markel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate individuality and actively work to ensure that everyone, regardless of background, has an equal chance to succeed. We’re committed to inclusivity—and will adapt processes (document formats or application methods) to support reasonable accommodations.
Flexible Options
Flexibility is core to our values. We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements—whether it’s hybrid models or Spatial call work.
Next Steps
Ready to play your part in a dynamic and driven team? Apply today via the ‘Apply Now’ link.
For additional arrangements: Email: rec@markel.com or Phone: 0161 507 5827
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