Project Manager

Bupa; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurer seeks a Project Manager to drive project delivery in Leeds or Manchester. In this role, you will manage change projects to enhance customer service and patient care, ensuring effective project management within a dynamic team. The position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan and life insurance

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Various online discounts

Qualifications

• Expertise in business and IT project management, managing multiple projects.
• Experience in delivering projects up to £1 million in a corporate environment.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban or SAFe.

Responsibilities

• Drive and manage successful project delivery and initiatives.
• Create project plans, budgets, and manage risks.
• Facilitate successful service introduction and documentation.

Skills

Business project management

IT project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Cost management

Education

Project management methodology (e.g., Prince2, Agile, SDLC)

Job description

Job Description

Project Manager

Hybrid – up to 3 days WFH

Leeds, Manchester or Staines

Permanent

£48k - £53k DOE and location + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

In this role you will manage and deliver change projects and initiatives, ensuring tasks are defined, resourced and effectively managed, including scoping, planning, managing and implementing innovative and successful solutions.

How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen

• Drive and manage the successful delivery of projects and initiatives
• Work closely and ensure early involvement with the product and delivery teams and key suppliers
• Draft project mandates, estimate costs and resource requirements, produce project briefs and initiation documents to ensure that all work is accurately sized
• Create and manage optimised project plans, budgets, critical success factors and key milestones for all projects
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies and manage change holistically
• Facilitate successful service introduction through the delivery of appropriate documentation and deliverables which will allow successful post implementation support
• Contribute to the management and control of the procurement and tendering processes for services and solutions
  
  

Key Skills / Qualifications Needed For This Role

• Have strong knowledge and expertise in business and/or IT project management and be able to manage multiple project work streams and activities
• A track record in successfully delivering projects up to £1million, managing a number of project staff within an enterprise/corporate environment
• Experience of working in a product environment, delivering projects aligned to the product model.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment and the using agile methods, such as Scrum, Kanban or SAFe
• Have an excellent understanding and knowledge of the full project lifecycle and have project management experience; within a recognised project management methodology (e.g. Prince2, Agile, SDLC;)
• Demonstrate good stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different stakeholders
• Be proficient in risk, resource and cost management.
  
  

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts
  
  

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [e-mail]

Time Type

Full time

Job Area

Business Development

Locations:

Home Based c/o Kirkstall Forge, Home Based North c/o Bupa Place