Project Manager (Insurance)

r3 Consultant; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,880,000 - 3,520,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm seeks a Project Manager (Non-IT) to lead strategic initiatives. The role requires a minimum of 13 years in project management, with experience in Mergers & Acquisition, and a focus on delivering cross-functional projects. Candidates should possess certifications like PMP or Prince2 and demonstrate expertise in insurance products. The position, located in Bangalore, offers a maximum CTC of 32 lakhs inclusive of all benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 13 years of experience in a managerial role.
• PMP, Prince2 or MSP certification preferred.
• Extensive experience in project management across various methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage project initiation and delivery timelines.
• Define project scope and deliverables.
• Provide leadership and direction to the project team.

Skills

Project Management

Mergers & Acquisition

Integration

Leadership

Communication

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

PowerPoint

Excel

Visio

Job description

Project Manager (Non-IT)

Position in GCoE Change team. Compensation: Max CTC of 32 lakhs all inclusive.

Vacancies: 10. Locations: Pune / Mumbai / Bangalore / Gurgaon.

Important Note: This is a Non-IT Project Management role.

Key Requirements

• Must have experience in Project Management, Mergers & Acquisition, Integration.
• A minimum of 13 years of experience is mandatory; candidate should currently be working at Managerial or Senior Managerial level.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent desired.
• Project Management PMP, Prince2 or MSP certification desired.
• Extensive project management experience; demonstrates a very good understanding of project management techniques across Waterfall and Agile lifecycles.
• Excellent knowledge of general insurance (London Market / Lloyd’s and Industry) products and services, and in particular detailed understanding of legal / regulatory / risk principles and practices relating to the insurance industry.

What the role will involve

• Managing the inception and initiation of projects in accordance with the GCoE Change agenda and M&A Framework, defining project approach, resource requirements and estimating project delivery timelines and cost.
• Defining and agreeing project scope, deliverables, timescale, quality, cost and benefits to ensure the business case can be articulated, understood and agreed.
• Defining, establishing and managing project structure, roles and teams to ensure efficient and effective project delivery.
• Planning, managing, monitoring and reporting on the work of (sometimes disparate) project teams to deliver the outputs to the agreed timescale, quality and cost criteria.
• Producing RAID logs and managing mitigation activities, including ongoing risk assessment.
• Working with key Business stakeholders across multiple geographies in order to clarify project outputs, and timescale, quality and cost criteria; build sustainable relationships to enable the achievement of project objectives.
• Providing leadership, direction and coaching to the project team.
• Working with Information Technology / external application vendors to include their costs, activities and deliverables within the overall project scope and approach, providing challenge and support to ensure technology related outcomes are achieved.
• Creating high level and detailed documents, using a mixture of pictorial and written means (within PowerPoint / Word) in order to effectively communicate with the project team, peers and stakeholders (including Executives and senior managers).
• Assisting the GCoE Business Leaders, Operations team, and wider teams to support the GCoE change agenda, including taking ownership of specific activities identified during organisational strategic leadership meetings.
• Proactively stay informed about industry trends and best practices to provide thought leadership in building a high‑performing Change team aligned with the GCoE's strategic objectives.
• Support the broader Change Community by sharing insights and learnings relevant to Gallagher and the insurance industry, ensuring projects and change initiatives are set up for success.
• Complying with the Gallagher Professional Standards Manual in accordance with statutory requirements for the role with specific attention, but not limited to, managing client and other sensitive data, Whistle Blowing, Treating Customers Fairly.

Technical Knowledge

• Extensive project management experience and demonstrates a very good understanding of project management techniques across Waterfall and Agile lifecycles.
• Excellent knowledge of business improvement and change management methodologies.
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office software including Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Insurance / Financial Services experience essential.
• Good understanding of underlying legal principles and practices relating to risk in the insurance industry.
• Excellent knowledge of general insurance (London Market / Lloyd’s and Industry) products and services, and in particular detailed understanding of legal / regulatory / risk principles and practices relating to the insurance industry.

Experience And Skills

• Demonstrable full life cycle project management experience, along with experience of leading complex, scale, and time bound projects (including those related to external software vendors).
• Proven experience of managing multiple concurrent projects, including experience of projects in the regulatory domain.
• Experience of delivering projects / change to agreed outcomes across multiple disparate business divisions / geographies with differing needs and challenges.
• Experience of delivering projects with Information Technology components.
• Confidently builds and sustains a key relationship network.
• Decisive leadership in ambiguity and the desire to solve problems coupled with a can‑do attitude.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including listening, verbal and written communication with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the Company, including Executives and senior level management.
• Experience of working in matrix teams across multiple locations, including with third party suppliers.
• Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence business decisions across all stakeholder groups.
• Ability to respond confidently to conflicts and manage situations positively, proactively escalating ongoing issues.
• A self‑starter, time management and deadline driven; able to set priorities, including when under timeline pressure, and monitor progress towards goals.
• Decisive project leadership in times of ambiguity and evolving business needs.
• Ability to lead and motivate others through good people management skills.
• Creative problem‑solver with a positive can‑do attitude and ability to think strategically as well as operate at detailed level and deep‑dive where needed.
• Demonstrable experience of being able to pick up ambiguous 'business challenges' and shaping them into more holistic, structured pieces of work (including collaborating with others in order to achieve this).
• Attention to detail, comfortable with conducting analysis and handling financial data.
• Ability to compile reports, analyse findings and make valued, trusted recommendations to a variety of audiences.
• A high level of discretion and empathy, able to respond confidently to conflicts, balance situations whilst raising any ongoing issues.
• Experience of working in a global / regional, matrix‑managed organisation, with the utmost integrity and confidentiality.
• Evidence of self‑development in the project discipline.