Project Manager

Richmond Villages; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services provider in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to oversee and deliver change initiatives. The role involves managing project tasks effectively and ensuring quality outcomes within budget and time constraints. Candidates should possess a strong project management background, experience in Agile methodologies, and excellent stakeholder management skills. The position offers a competitive salary package, hybrid working options, and comprehensive benefits to support staff wellbeing.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Various other benefits and discounts

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in project management to manage multiple work streams.
• Experience delivering projects within a corporate environment.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver change projects and initiatives.
• Drive successful delivery of assigned projects and initiatives.
• Develop working relationships to gain commitment and resources.
• Draft project mandates and estimate costs and resources.
• Identify and manage project risks and issues.

Skills

Project management expertise

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Interpersonal skills

Corporate project delivery

Education

Recognised project management qualification (e.g., Prince2, Agile)

Job description

Job Description

Project Manager

Manchester, Leeds, Staines or London

Hybrid: up to 3 days per week WFH

Permanent

Salary: from £48k - £52k DOE and location +10% bonus + fantastic benefits

Full time: 37.5 hours per week

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

We make health happen

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 key Project Manager role you will manage and deliver change projects and initiatives, ensuring tasks are defined, resourced and effectively managed. This will include scoping, planning, managing and implementing innovative and successful solutions to business problems while always ensuring quality outcomes are delivered on time and within budget.

How You'll Help Us Make Health Happen

• Drive and manage the successful delivery of all assigned projects and initiatives. Plan and manage resources cost effectively to deliver the required Business outcomes
• Develop effective working relationships with colleagues across the business to gain the commitment, support and resources required to deliver successfully
• Work closely and ensure early involvement with the product and delivery teams and key suppliers to ensure they have the opportunity to contribute to all phases of delivery as may be appropriate
• Understand the business requirements and expectations working with portfolio and product owners and interpret requirements as defined within product functionality, including the translation and communication in the right technical language so that the vendors can easily understand and interpret them
• Draft project mandates, estimate costs and resource requirements, and produce project briefs and initiation documents to ensure that all work is accurately sized
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies and manage change

What You'll Bring

• Have strong knowledge and expertise in project management and be able to manage multiple project work streams and activities
• A track record in successfully delivering projects within a 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
• Be able to demonstrate a professional and credible image to the business with excellent interpersonal skills
• To 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
• Be able to demonstrate good stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different stakeholders

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.

• 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 do 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 takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We're committed to ensuring you're treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

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

Full time

Full time

Job Area

Strategy, Change & Transformation

Locations

Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge