The Corporation oversees and supports the Lloyd’s market, ensuring it operates efficiently and retains its reputation as the market of choice for specialist insurance and reinsurance risk. It comprises many different teams, from Global Markets and Business Development to Claims and Market Operations. These teams work together to promote Lloyd’s around the world, raise performance and manage Lloyd’s worldwide licences. The Corporation has more than 800 employees worldwide.
The Opportunity
Our aim is to attract the best talent and provide an accelerated career path for the progression of high achievers. Lloyd’s seeks to promotes and retain a diverse workforce, harnessing different skills, experiences, backgrounds and capability to enhance our business performance. Applications are welcomed from all suitably qualified candidates irrespective of gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability or religion and selection is based on merit.
Overall purpose
To deliver the portfolio of projects across the application group utilising SCRUM, while adhering to the established IT project delivery framework (predominantly SCRUM “” Agile methodology)
To assist in building a culture of excellence in project management, project delivery and methodologies and evolving the existing project delivery framework, implementing best practice within IT.
Major responsibilities and accountabilities
- Deliver IT projects utilising predominantly SCRUM – Agile delivery methodology, ensuring all projects conform to the IT Project Framework.
- Define, document and execute projects, actively participating in all phases of the delivery while adhering to project governance.
- Work with the Product Owner in order to organise the Backlog such that delivery can flex to take account of changing business demands.
- Plan the delivery of assigned project Backlog, and the technology and process changes associated with these activities.
- Anticipate, manage and resolve issues, risks, and impediments that may impact on the delivery of the project, coordinating where appropriate, the impact to other projects and/or services.
- Understand the commercial impact of proposals and assist in the delivery of business cases.
- Ensure requirements are captured, prioritised and dependencies tracked, coordinating, where appropriate the impact to other projects and/or systems.
- Coordinate the evaluation of technical options as appropriate and to ensure that recommendations are made and decisions reached.
- Closely manage expectations with business areas and management regarding resources, times and budgets, communicating clear priorities and objectives within the team.
- Ensure project plans are prepared, maintained and track activities against the plan and budget, providing regular reports on progress to stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Provide effective leadership to the project team and to represent the interests of the project team, ensuring that effective relationships are built and maintained with the business.
- Ensure that all project members including the board understand roles and responsibilities.
- Manage and control project changes ensuring appropriate authorisation is received, project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale, quality, resource budgets, and the delivered products obtain the agreed sign off.
- Ensure own projects are formally closed and handed over to the Application Support team , with all required project documentation reviewed, retrospectives held and feedback captured
- Support and adherence to the IT change management and operational acceptance processes. Support the development of the existing project delivery framework, formalising existing approaches, establishing best practice and applying consistency across the management of the IT project portfolio.
Skills, knowledge and experience
- Proven expertise in application lifecycle management & project delivery, using agile methodologies (such as SCRUM).
- Proven expertise as a Project Manager and Scrum Master (must have experience in leading agile teams) and ability to lead teams to self-organisation.
- Solid understanding of the Software Application Development Lifecycle and all the various stages from conceptual design to implementation.
- Demonstrable success in managing in-house (or external) Scrum delivery teams of web based and data centric projects.
- In depth knowledge of principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation through to implementation.
- Experienced with methods and techniques associated with planning and monitoring progress of projects; backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity and task definition.
- Experienced with the identification, assessment and management of project risks, issues or dependencies which could result in time or cost over-runs, or failure to deliver products which are fit for purpose.
- Successfully managed multiple projects concurrently.
- Demonstrates ability to interpret and understand the hierarchy and culture of own, customer and supplier organisations and be able to facilitate and contribute to the identification of decision makers and influencers.
- Proven experience in supplier management.
- Ability to gain respect from his/her team and be willing to take a hands on approach.
- Ability to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
- Knowledge of the London Insurance Market (preferred).
- Requires good personal and interpersonal skills, in particular those listed below:
- Facilitation
- Interviewing
- Presentation.
