Senior Project Manager - London Markets
Posted 1 day ago by Totaljobs
£184,000 Per year
Inside
Hybrid
South East; Milton Keynes; Southampton; Dartford; Reading; Maidstone; Sutton; Croydon; Slough; Portsmouth; Brighton
Summary: The role of Interim Project Manager involves supporting the Programme Manager in executing key projects aligned with a European growth strategy within the London Market insurance sector. This hands-on position requires extensive experience in project management, particularly in international expansion and regulatory changes. The candidate will oversee multiple initiatives, manage resources, and ensure quality governance throughout the project lifecycle. Strong stakeholder management and delivery performance monitoring are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Programme Manager in delivering workstreams aligned to the European growth strategy
- Own end-to-end project delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives
- Define and manage project scope, objectives, milestones, dependencies and success metrics
- Create and maintain robust project and programme plans
- Manage resource allocation across the portfolio, proactively addressing capacity constraints
- Lead budget creation, tracking and financial governance, working closely with Business Sponsors
- Conduct change impact and readiness assessments, identifying key stakeholders and delivery risks
- Act as a central coordination point, managing internal teams and external partners including Claims TPAs, Fronting insurers, Lloyd's stakeholders
- Manage risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring mitigation plans are in place
- Facilitate and lead workshops, steering meetings and senior stakeholder forums
- Monitor delivery performance, taking corrective action where required
- Ensure all outputs meet agreed quality and governance standards
- Escalate issues appropriately and manage conflict resolution pragmatically and professionally
Key Skills:
- Proven interim Project Management experience within the Lloyd's of London / London Market insurance environment
- Demonstrable delivery on international expansion, market entry, new product or European growth programmes
- Strong understanding of specialty insurance operating models (primary, delegated authority, MGA, underwriting, claims)
- Experience coordinating TPAs, fronting partners, syndicates, and group entities
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including Board-level exposure
Salary (Rate): £800 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Location: London (Hybrid) Day Rate: £800-£850 per day (Inside IR35 Umbrella assignment rate) Role Overview Our client is undertaking a significant European growth and market expansion programme. We are seeking an experienced Interim Project Manager to support the Programme Manager in delivering key projects that enable this strategy across agreed European locations. This is a hands-on delivery role requiring strong London Market experience, with exposure to international expansion, regulatory change, and cross-border operating model delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Programme Manager in delivering workstreams aligned to the European growth strategy
- Own end-to-end project delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives
- Define and manage project scope, objectives, milestones, dependencies and success metrics
- Create and maintain robust project and programme plans
- Manage resource allocation across the portfolio, proactively addressing capacity constraints
- Lead budget creation, tracking and financial governance, working closely with Business Sponsors
- Conduct change impact and readiness assessments, identifying key stakeholders and delivery risks
- Act as a central coordination point, managing internal teams and external partners including:
- Claims TPAs
- Fronting insurers
- Lloyd's stakeholders
- Manage risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring mitigation plans are in place
- Facilitate and lead workshops, steering meetings and senior stakeholder forums
- Monitor delivery performance, taking corrective action where required
- Ensure all outputs meet agreed quality and governance standards
- Escalate issues appropriately and manage conflict resolution pragmatically and professionally
Required Experience
- Proven interim Project Management experience within the Lloyd's of London / London Market insurance environment
- Demonstrable delivery on international expansion, market entry, new product or European growth programmes
- Strong understanding of specialty insurance operating models (primary, delegated authority, MGA, underwriting, claims)
- Experience coordinating TPAs, fronting partners, syndicates, and group entities
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including Board-level exposure
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