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Programme Manager - Speciality Insurance
Rate: £850 - £950 p/d Outside IR35
Location: London - Hybrid - 6 month initial contract
We're partnering with a specialist insurer embarking on a significant transformation journey and are seeking an experienced Programme Manager or Transformation Lead to help shape and deliver it from the ground up.
This unique opportunity to join at the start of the transformation process. Reporting directly to the Head of Transformation, you'll play a key role in carving out and establishing a new transformation programme, helping define the roadmap, governance and priorities across several strategic modernisation initiatives.
Having grown through a number of mergers and acquisitions, the business is now focused on consolidating, simplifying and modernising its operating model, technology landscape and business processes. The programme is currently in discovery, meaning the projects themselves are still being defined. As a result, you'll have the opportunity to influence the direction of the programme rather than simply inherit an existing portfolio.
While the role supports the UK and International business, you'll work closely with senior stakeholders in the US headquarters, giving you exposure to a truly global transformation agenda.
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Key Responsibilities
- Support the Head of Transformation in establishing a new transformation function and programme framework.
- Lead discovery, mobilisation and execution activities across multiple strategic change initiatives.
- Define programme governance, delivery structures and operating models.
- Drive business and operational transformation within a complex insurance environment.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to identify, prioritise and shape future projects.
- Help integrate and align processes across a business that has grown through acquisition.
- Manage senior stakeholders across UK, International and US operations.
- Build programme roadmaps, business cases and delivery plans.
Experience Required:
- Proven Programme Manager, Transformation Lead or Senior Transformation Manager experience within the London Market or Specialty Insurance sector.
- Strong background delivering large-scale business transformation and modernisation programmes.
- Experience working within organisations that have grown through mergers, acquisitions or business integrations.
- Previous operational and/or Business Analysis background, with the ability to bridge strategy and execution.
- Experience setting up programmes, governance frameworks and delivery structures from an early stage.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and shape initiatives during discovery phases rather than following pre-defined plans.
- Excellent understanding of London Market insurance operations and business processes.
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