Project Management Lead

pib Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

PIB Group, a fast-growing UK insurance business, seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead delivery across business and IT transformations. You will define scope, build plans, draft business cases, and manage risks, issues and stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes.

You will mentor teams, maintain PM templates, and ensure governance aligns with UC Transformation and Central Change. A proactive, collaborative approach is essential in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Project management experience in financial services or insurance environments.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and drive governance.
• Strong risk management and change control capabilities.
• Mentor and develop team members while delivering PM templates and processes.

Responsibilities

• Define scope and ensure deliverables meet business requirements and objectives.
• Develop and maintain project plan from initiation to close.
• Draft business cases for projects you manage.
• Proactively manage issues to keep schedule and budget.
• Deliver change and configuration management through change control.
• Identify, evaluate, and document delivery risks.
• Prioritise stakeholder relationships and manage expectations.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, at all levels.
• Lead development/maintenance of PM processes and templates within governance.
• Deliver standard artefacts (RAID logs, plans, action logs, impact assessments).
• Manage projects across business and IT environments end-to-end.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Change control

Mentorship

Tools

Acturis

Applied

SSP

Aquarium Software

Job description

• Ensure scope is clearly defined and that project deliverables meet the business requirements and project objectives.
• Develop and maintain the project plan from initiation to project closedown to ensure delivery within agreed timescales.
• Draft Business Cases for projects where you are the project manager.
• Proactively manage issues to resolution, initiating corrective action as necessary to ensure the project remains on schedule and budget.
• Deliver effective change and configuration management through change control procedures and approvals.
• Identify, evaluate, and document risks to delivery.
• Identify and prioritize key stakeholder relationships clearly communicating and managing expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Communicate regularly, confidently and credibly. Understanding the information most important to the stakeholder and presenting it clearly.
• Lead the development and ongoing maintenance of the PM processes and templates, ensuring they fit seamlessly with UC Transformation Change and Central Change governance.
• Deliver standard artefacts as defined by the project management methodology. (RAID logs, Plans, Action Logs, Impact Assessments etc)
• Project management experience in a financial services environment - preferably Insurance.
• Proven successful delivery of projects in a financial services or regulated environment. High level of experience working in a change management environment, preferably in a variety of situations.
• Experience with insurance policy administration and claim systems, such as Acturis, Applied, SSP or Aquarium Software.
• Experience of providing mentorship and development to the team.
• Project management methodologies and their application in a variety of environments.
• Full project lifecycle in business and IT environments.
• Proactive approach, comfortable working collaboratively and managing changing priorities and workloads.
• Customer focused with the ability to build excellent rapport with colleagues.

PIB Group is one of the UK's fastest-growing insurance businesses, offering real career progression, professional development, and a collaborative culture where your work truly matters.

We encourage our people to be collaborative, with entrepreneurship at our core. We are a fast-paced, growing organisation and an exciting place to be.