IT Project Manager-Assistant Manager -IT Department

China Taiping Life Insurance (Hong Kong) Company Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

China Taiping Life Insurance (Hong Kong) Company Limited is seeking an experienced IT project leader to manage cross-functional digitalisation initiatives from initiation through planning and delivery, ensuring quality and timely outcomes. The role requires strong coordination, budgeting, and vendor governance within a life insurance context in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities include managing user requirements, budgeting, and oversight of outsourcing activities to optimize IT investments while

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or above; preferred majors include Computer Science, Information Management, Finance or Insurance.
• Industry Experience: 10+ years in the insurance industry with knowledge of life insurance products and processes.
• Management Experience: 5+ years of project management or team leadership with full lifecycle delivery.
• Professional Expertise: Familiar with project management knowledge areas and manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholders.
• Core Competencies: Strong communication, coordination, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Personal Attributes: Highly responsible and resilient under pressure in a multi-tasking environment.
• Preferred: Finance-related projects or budget/procurement management experience.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: oversee IT/digitalisation projects from initiation to delivery acceptance.
• Requirements Management: assess and refine user department requirements and align with best practices.
• Budget Management: manage IT budget preparation, tracking, and optimisation proposals.
• Outsourcing Management: handle outsourcing procurement, risk assessment, vendor due diligence, agreements, and cost settlements.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Vendor management

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or above (Finance/Insurance/Computer Science/Information Management)

Job description

1. Project Management
IT/digitalisation projects, including project initiation and planning, cross-functional resource coordination, and the organisation and execution of project implementation through to acceptance and delivery. Accountable for project schedule, quality and delivery outcomes.

2. Requirements Management
Manage requirements raised by user departments. Assess the feasibility and necessity of requirements with reference to industry best practices, assist user departments in refining and completing their requirements, and coordinate requirements prioritisation, scheduling and delivery plans to ensure orderly implementation.

3. Budget Management
Oversee the preparation and execution management of the IT budget, monitor budget utilisation, conduct execution analysis and variance tracking, and propose optimisation and adjustment recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of IT investment.

4. Outsourcing Management
Oversee IT outsourcing management, including outsourcing procurement, outsourcing risk assessment, vendor due diligence, outsourcing agreements, and the calculation and settlement of outsourcing fees, ensuring that outsourcing activities are compliant, risks are controlled and costs are reasonable.

Requirements:

1. Education: Bachelor's degree or above; a major in Computer Science, Information Management, Finance, Insurance or a related discipline is preferred.

2. Industry Experience: At least 10 years of experience in the insurance industry, with solid knowledge of life insurance product concepts and business processes.

3. Management Experience: At least 5 years of project management or team management experience, with a proven track record of full project lifecycle management.

4. Professional Expertise: Familiar with the project management body of knowledge, with command of the methodologies for scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk and stakeholder management, and able to apply them flexibly in real projects.

5. Core Competencies: Excellent communication and coordination skills, with strong analytical, decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.

6. Personal Attributes: Highly responsible and resilient under pressure, able to drive work forward efficiently in a complex, multi-tasking environment.

7. Preferred: Experience in finance-related projects, or experience in budget and procurement management, is preferred.

Taiping Life Hong Kong is one of the professional life insurance companies under China Taiping Insurance Group, having commenced operations in 2015. It has been deeply rooted in the insurance markets of Hong Kong and Macau, committed to building a boutique life insurance company with the most valuable growth.

In recent years, Taiping Life Hong Kong has accelerated its transformation and high-quality development, innovatively launching GBA elderly care services with increasing popularity, and its business development has risen to the forefront of the Hong Kong and Macau markets. By 2024, its total assets approached 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Taiping Life Hong Kong is one of the professional life insurance companies under China Taiping Insurance Group, having commenced operations in 2015. It has been deeply rooted in the insurance markets of Hong Kong and Macau, committed to building a boutique life insurance company with the most valuable growth.

In recent years, Taiping Life Hong Kong has accelerated its transformation and high-quality development, innovatively launching GBA elderly care services with increasing popularity, and its business development has risen to the forefront of the Hong Kong and Macau markets. By 2024, its total assets approached 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.