Role Purpose

We are looking for an experience Technical Delivery Project Manager in the Technical Delivery team, within the IT Department. You will be responsible for planning and leading projects delivering technical services in support of the IT Strategic Programme. To work across all IT functions to ensure implementation and management of a cohesive, proactive, and highly effective set of services to support PIC’s sustained growth into the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the delivery of projects relating to IT technical services
• Work collaboratively with IT management to design and implement new and improved services.
• Provide regular reports suitable for IT senior management and Technical Delivery Team to demonstrate progress against roadmap
• Work closely with CTO and Heads of sections to support the strategic requirements of IT and the business.
• Work with other IT teams and Change Management to provide advice, guidance and technical resource to ensure that all new and upgraded systems are suitably secured.
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance and Audit to ensure the suitability of services.
• Recommend improvements to IT systems and services to enhance technical capabilities.
• Manage vendor relationships as appropriate for new and existing products.
• Undertake resource planning and recruit suitable resources to support project plans as and where necessary.
• Manage project budgets, providing regular reporting on current and planned expenditure.
• Ensure the production, tracking and delivery of appropriate project documentation, such as Project Plans, Status Reports, Roadmaps and RAID Logs.
• Utilise a Risk management approach to ensure that Risks are identified and recorded, ensuring that appropriate controls are in place and subject to regular review.
• Ensure that all new projects pass our cyber security tests.
• Facilitate and collaborate on the transition of completed projects into BAU support.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Educated to degree level or equivalent ideally with experience gained within a regulated financial services or insurance environment.

Technical

• Strong technical project management experience with a proven track record of successful delivery
• Technical proficiency - demonstratable knowledge of working on IT Infrastructure / Cloud projects
• Working within an Agile Framework
• Formal qualification and experience in Project and Programme Management (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, MSP Practitioner, Scrum Master)
• ITIL Foundation qualification desirable
• Use of ServiceNow and Azure Dev Ops desirable

Personal

• Strong Leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to persuade and influence both directly and indirectly
• Strong organisational skills, preferably with project management experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills and an ability to articulate complex subjects
• Commercial Judgement

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.