Project Manager

AXA; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global insurance firm in the City of Westminster is seeking a Project Manager to deliver approved initiatives aimed at meeting customer interests. The role involves defining project scope, managing schedules, facilitating meetings, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. Candidates should have proven project management experience, strong communication skills, and problem-solving abilities. Certifications such as PMP or Agile are preferred. This position offers opportunities to contribute to meaningful projects and develop an inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Ability to exercise discretion in managing tasks.
• Knowledge of various business functions and processes.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
• Manage project schedules and milestones.
• Lead meetings and facilitate decision-making.
• Develop project budgets and control costs.

Skills

Project management experience

Problem solving

Analytical reasoning

Communication skills

Education

PMP or related Agile certifications

Job description

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What you'll be doing

The Project Manager works to deliver specific and approved initiatives in the best interests of the customer. Project Managers manage a varying quantity of initiatives based on the needs of the business and experience level, and may encompass Small Change, BAU, and discretionary transformational projects/programs within the Change Delivery team.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to build project methodology, and comply with AXA XL processes & standards.
• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and deliverables. Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures (WBS).
• Manage driving schedule, milestones, dependencies, and critical path. Monitor progress and adjust plans as needed. Manage scope, including change controls for projects.
• Report project status to stakeholders in appropriate format and at the relevant level of detail.
• Plan and coordinate resources across providers.
• Develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, and cost control. Track actuals vs. plan and report variances.
• Lead and facilitate meetings (kickoffs, status updates, steering committees, retrospectives); drive decision making and issue resolution. Manage project stakeholders expectations.
• Interface with Business, App Managers, Business Analysts and Tech Leads to ensure service requirements are clearly understood, milestones agreed-to, and that execution trends in a manner favourable to project success.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; maintain a risk register and implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Quality assurance: define acceptance criteria, coordinate testing/QA activities, and ensure delivery meets quality standards.
• Facilitate deployment, business and technical readiness, acceptance of the solution/change and enabling the business benefit realisation.
• Managing vendor project engagements including participating in creation of SOW and ensuring proper invoice submission.
• Manages intra-project and cross-project deliverable dependency tracking.
• Developing project communication and team collaboration materials.

Qualifications

• Project management experience, with a track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning.
• Performs tasks according to established procedures, with some ability to exercise discretion. Projects are of moderate size and complexity.
• Provides effective solutions to problems based on broad experience.
• Knowledge of business functions, including an understanding of various processes, procedures and systems required to carry out assignments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Certifications (preferred but not mandatory): PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner/Foundation, PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner), CAPM, or related Agile certifications (CSM, CSPO, SAFe certifications).

Equal Employment Opportunity

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. We have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another – and our business – to move forward and succeed.