Project Manager

We have exciting opportunities for the right individuals to join the Claims Change and Product team as we recruit Project Managers.

Claims Change and Product is a department made up of several change areas: Claims Change (PMO and Projects, Large IT and Financial Change, Digital Value and Offshore Strategy) and Product (Business change, GWCC Product Team – Claims Value Stream, Automation) and Telephony (Telephony Programme and Workforce Management – WFM). These areas are responsible for delivering value back to the Claims department.

Working as a key part of the Project area within Claims Change, the Project Manager will be responsible for driving their projects forward to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.

The role will see you working closely with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external.

The role involves managing the delivery of a varied mix of projects, by organising and coordinating tasks, creating project plans, engaging stakeholders, managing timelines and relationships to ensure on-time delivery, whilst complying with the Claims and business compliance standards. Projects will range from strategically important and high-value initiatives through to smaller, time-critical business or process changes to deliver incremental improvements for the business and customers.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Agreeing project objectives, key deliverables, and the scope of the change activity
• Managing and organising resources working on a project
• Carrying out project risk assessments, mitigate and managing risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring that the critical success factors of the project are met.
• Guaranteeing that project quality standards are met.
• Overseeing and owning financial management and budgets
• Reporting to steering committees, programme, and portfolio checkpoints
• Evaluating the success of the project against benchmarks
• Developing and maintaining a close relationship with business stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of projects.
• Providing high level, realistic and detailed projects plans
• Managing change effectively, utilising the correct communication channels
• Sharing lessons or best practices with other project managers
• Feed in requirements to the Continuous improvement area such as training requirements, readiness needs or communication plans etc.
• All projects must be fully documented and regular reports providing details of progress must be produced and distributed to relevant parties.
• Managing projects in a best practice fashion whilst using the required methodology
• Ensuring relevant governance standards are met.
• To ensure all sensitive information related to any projects are not disclosed to anyone outside of the project group or Claims Change & Product

Key Skills

• A self-motivated and organised individual who can deliver to tight deadlines.
• A flexible and dynamic problem solver who can create solutions and manage workplace differences.
• An effective communicator who can positively influence stakeholders at all hierarchical levels.
• Able to reflect on performance, share lessons learned and adjust where necessary.
• A team player who is reliable and supportive of others
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Flexible and able to react to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Ability to quickly understand new concepts and principles.
• Whilst not essential, knowledge of the agile methodology and its values, principles and practices is desired.

Additional Information

• We will review your CV within 5 working days of application and get back to you.
• We will give you everything you need to work comfortably from home.
• We are a hybrid working team and you will be required to come to our Cardiff or Swansea office 1 day per week (or more if you prefer).

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.