IT Project Manager - Insurtech

A leading provider of software solutions in multiple Insurance sectors is looking for a proactive, organized, and enthusiastic Project Manager to join their team. The company offers a platform service to sell policies through direct websites, portals, and price comparison sites, as well as claims and assistance systems to clients. They have a wide range of clients in the UK and worldwide, and it's an exciting time to join their business as they focus on growth opportunities with new clients and product enhancements.

As a Project Manager, you will be the lead on key internal and customer projects, responsible for the planning, scoping, and management of the projects, and communication with the rest of the team and clients. You must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, and take a pragmatic and considered approach, paying close attention to detail. Strong oral and written communication skills are necessary to effectively produce client solutions.

The role will be client-facing and you will be involved in communicating with the client from project inception, gathering requirements to brief internal teams, championing the project through to delivery and completion. You will need to be a quick learner, grasping the product knowledge of the flagship system and how clients use it to become effective quickly in your Project Manager role managing client changes to the system.

Benefits

• Salary up to £50,000 DOE
• Hybrid working
• Flexible Working
• Continuous Professional Development
• Company Pension
• Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
• Private Healthcare and Wellbeing Membership
• Annual and Mid-Term Performance Reviews
• Social and Team Events
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Paid Lunch Hour

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the business needs of clients and the products and services they utilize
• Organize and manage all phases of project(s) to ensure on-time completion for multiple projects
• Create and manage project plans and manage day-to-day operational aspects of project(s)
• Create tickets in JIRA and Confluence pages to facilitate development of requirements
• Assign project responsibilities, prioritizing projects and tasks when faced with resource limitations
• Work with clients, product team, developers, and designers to produce requirement documents to develop technical specifications
• Complete necessary project documentation, ensuring projects are accurately scoped and costed and all documentation is signed by a client prior to development start
• Plan and oversee the preparation and dissemination of project communications including, but not limited to, regular client calls throughout the lifespan of a project
• Critically analyze completed projects through retrospective meetings to drive improvements in business and project methodologies.

Essential Criteria

1.5+ years' project management experience, delivering, and managing project management lifecycles, preferably in an IT/software environment

• Experience managing multiple stakeholders and clients
• Highly organized and able to communicate effectively
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Self-initiated and able to work productively when unsupervised, multitasking across multiple concurrent projects
• Ability to assume ownership of and optimize current processes
• Works well under pressure
• Ability to work well within a team and quickly establish good working relationships with clients.

Desirable Criteria

• Degree educated in a relevant field or a Project Management qualification such as Prince2 or PMI
• Knowledge of insurance
• Knowledge of Atlassian JIRA/Confluence or similar tool
• Ability to travel within the UK when required.

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