Portfolio Delivery Lead - London Market Insurance, Underwriting

Salescorp Marketing Solutions Pty Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading London Market Syndicate is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Lead to optimize a portfolio of strategic projects. This role involves managing project managers, ensuring alignment with business objectives while fostering a proactive and collaborative team environment. Candidates should have extensive project management experience in the Insurance industry and demonstrate exceptional leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive project and programme management experience in the Insurance industry.
• Ability to facilitate, influence, and resolve issues among stakeholders.
• Proven leadership with relationship-building, coaching, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage projects based on demand, ensuring expectations and deadlines are met.
• Guide the team in planning, maintaining detailed plans throughout project cycles.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to meet project deliverables within scope and budget.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Problem Solving

Job description

A well-respected London Market Syndicate is recruiting for a Portfolio Delivery Lead to oversee and optimize a portfolio of strategic projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and measurable impact.

As Portfolio Delivery Lead, you will:

• Proactively manage projects based on demand, ensuring expectations and deadlines are met.
• Maintain awareness of execution details while identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities across multiple projects.
• Communicate clear status updates, risks, and recommendations at a senior level, with familiarity in project execution for key initiatives.
• Line manage all project managers, track project progress, enforce scope adherence, and coach teams to drive accountability and best practices.
• Support the Head of IT Delivery (UK and Bermuda) in evolving the Change Management Framework and promoting its benefits across the Group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage all project managers, ensuring effective team leadership.
• Utilize industry knowledge to understand project scope and challenge delivery methods in line with budget and timelines.
• Lead project managers with vision, integrity, empathy, and effective communication, fostering potential in others.
• Collaborate with the Portfolio Management Office to identify improvements, drive process adherence, and manage conflicts.
• Manage delivery of strategic initiatives per the Change Management Framework.
• Guide the team in planning, maintaining detailed plans throughout project cycles.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, vendors, and suppliers to meet project deliverables within scope and budget.
• Ensure all project documentation is complete, accurate, and stored appropriately.
• Promote continuous improvement and challenge norms.

Person Specification:

• Proven leadership with relationship-building, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Extensive project and programme management experience in the Insurance industry, with strategic thinking abilities.
• Strong end-to-end project lifecycle experience using various methodologies.
• Ability to facilitate, influence, and resolve issues among stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization.
• Proactive, organized, detail-oriented, and leading by example.
• Professional, energetic, diplomatic, calm, pragmatic, and solution-oriented.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Self-sufficient and proactive in thinking and acting.
• Flexible and responsive to changing demands.