People Transformation Programme Lead (Hybrid, Leeds)

QBE; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday a yearwith theoptionto

Pension –you are automatically enroll

Private medical insurance– we fund

Short term remote work abroad

Job summary

QBE is seeking a People Programme Manager for a Leeds-based, hybrid role. You will partner with the People Leadership Team to deliver the People Strategy through a large transformation programme, owning multi-workstream delivery and governance.

You will coach junior colleagues and ensure delivery of outcomes across the lifecycle. This fixed-term role reports to the People Director, Nikki Lees, and ends 2027.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale People/HR programmes with multiple workstreams within a fast-paced, complex commercial environment.
• Proven experience managing key project controls, including risks, issues, dependencies, plans, reporting and governance.
• Strong understanding of project management methodology, best-practice tools, templates and techniques, supported by relevant learning or study.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of a large, complex, multi-location transformation programme within agreed timeframes and scope, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement throughout.
• Develop and gain agreement to programme plans, ensuring interdependencies across related projects and workstreams are monitored throughout the full lifecycle.
• Review and maintain accurate programme and project information, including plans, milestones, status reports, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and outcomes
• Work collaboratively across the People team and with internal and external stakeholders to drive successful programme delivery, ensuring key dependencies, risks and issues are identified, coordinated and managed effectively.
• Facilitate a robust governance process across the programme, providing clear status updates and effective risk, issue and exception reporting to support stakeholder alignment and decision-making.
• Contribute to the review and refinement of processes, procedures, tools and systems to continuously improve the efficiency of programme delivery and related activities.
• Actively coach and develop more junior/less experienced team members. Act as a point of reference to guide and advise others to ensure the sharing of knowledge and best practice

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Communication

Cost Management

Critical Thinking

Detail-Oriented

Financial Products

Collaboration

Managing performance

Presenting with Impact

Problem Solving

Project Delivery

Risk Management

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Management

Waterfall Model

Job description

QBE is seeking a People Programme Manager for a Leeds-based, hybrid role. You will partner with the People Leadership Team to deliver the People Strategy through a large transformation programme, owning multi-workstream delivery and governance.

You will coach junior colleagues and ensure delivery of outcomes across the lifecycle. This fixed-term role reports to the People Director, Nikki Lees, and ends 2027.