- 12 Month Contract, High Chance of Further Renewals
- Global Insurance Provider
- Salary up to $11,000, depending on level of experience
- Experience of managing end to end projects, within the Insurance industry, is essential.
- Immediate start available and preferred.
The Programme Management Specialist helps to create a strong foundation for programme success by providing comprehensive programme management support. The role contributes directly to the overall efficiency, accuracy and smooth operation of the programme, which in turn leads to better outcomes and increased value for the organisation.
Job Description
Team Collaboration
- Collaboration: Work effectively with others, share ideas, and actively participate in team discussions.
- Communication: Clearly express your thoughts, actively listen, and provide constructive feedback.
- Reliability: Be dependable and meet deadlines. Fulfil your commitments to the team.
- Adaptability: Be open to change and willing to learn new skills or approaches.
- Problem-Solving: Contribute solutions to challenges the team faces.
- Positive Attitude: Maintain a positive outlook and support team morale.
Project Planning and Execution
- Lead end-to-end project management activities, including defining project scope, developing detailed project plans, managing resources, and ensuring timely execution of deliverables.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and proactively address any issues.
- Ensure that projects adhere to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, project sponsors, and cross-functional teams, to ensure alignment and support for project objectives.
Risk Management
- Identify potential risks and issues proactively, develop mitigation strategies, and implement contingency plans to ensure project success, while adhering to risk management framework and local regulatory requirements.
Change Management
- Support in driving organizational change by effectively communicating project goals, progress, and impacts to all stakeholders and facilitating adoption of new processes and technologies.
Budget and Resource Management
- Monitor project budgets, allocate resources efficiently, and track expenditures to ensure projects are delivered within financial constraints, in accordance with financial guidelines and budget allocations.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure quality standards for project deliverables are upheld, and implement corrective actions as needed to maintain high-quality outcomes, in alignment with group quality assurance standards and requirements.
Reporting and Documentation
- Prepare regular progress reports, status updates, and documentation for project stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities for process optimization and improvement, implement best practices, and foster a culture of innovation within the project team, aligned with continuous improvement initiatives and strategic priorities.
Who we are looking for:
Competencies and Behaviors Expected
- Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
- Strategic Alignment: Skilled in aligning programme objectives with strategic business goals, ensuring that projects are delivered well and contribute to overall vision of change /transformation.
- Collaboration and Influence: Ability to work effectively across teams and influence stakeholders towards common goals, ensuring alignment and commitment to programme objectives.
- Risk Management: Expertise in identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring that project delivery is resilient and adaptive to changing circumstances.
- Communication: Strong communication skills, capable of articulating project/program strategies, progress, and challenges to stakeholders at all levels.
- Leadership: Ability to lead and motivate teams, fostering a culture of accountability, performance, and continuous learning.
- Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, empathy, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others.
- Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal.
Role Requirements / What You Bring to the Team
You are an experienced project delivery professional with a proven track record in leading medium to large-scale, change and transformational initiatives. Your expertise in delivery planning, stakeholder engagement, and risk management, coupled with a deep understanding of resource optimization, makes you ideal for steering our transformative efforts towards success.
Working Experience
- At least 8 years of working experience in program / delivery management, and / or medium / large-scale projects, a strong technical implementation background, and a proven delivery track record.
- Experience in working in a diverse organisation across front to back business processes.
- Education - Tertiary education
- Professional Qualifications
- Project Management certification (preferred).
- High proficiency with MS Project and MS Office suite of products is essential.
