IT Project Manager/Business Analyst

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Location

United Kingdom, London, London

Work Place

Hybrid

Region

UK

Vacancy details

Job Profile

Lockton - Experienced Professional

Title

IT Project Manager/Business Analyst

Description

Lockton Europe is building out a Business Project and Programme team and requires the successful candidate to be able to help frame and mature the services/standards provided and act as an enabler, assisting the successful delivery of our project portfolio whilst providing our leaders with the insights and assurances they need to support successful delivery.

Reporting to the Lead Project Manager and working with senior stakeholders across various Divisions, the IT Project Manager/Business Analyst will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Technology projects, from initiation to execution. This is a hybrid role that covers both project management and business analysis responsibilities.

This is a very varied role, which will provide the opportunity to use existing skills and experience whilst acquiring new ones. The role holder will specifically support the Technology team on a variety of projects and change requests predominately centred around application development.

Key responsibilities

• Functions as a hybrid project manager with business analyst skills for projects throughout the development cycle, including planning, design/development, testing and implementation phases
• Defines project objectives, scope and deliverables that support business and technological goals in collaboration with management, project team and project stakeholders
• Gather, analyse and document project deliverables and technical (functional and non-functional) requirements
• Creates, executes, and maintains all components of project documentation ensuring they are complete, current and stored appropriately
• Defines resources and schedule for project/program implementation aligned to overall project and program roadmap
• Efficiently identify, document and resolve project risks and issues
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project, according to agreed scope and deliverables
• Project reporting and communication to and with relevant stakeholders

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• A solid understanding of the insurance/reinsurance industry
• Previous experience as a Hybrid PM/BA working on Infrastructure and Application Development projects and Change Requests (as pertains BA).
• Effective communicator with internal stakeholders (at all levels) in the business, understanding their needs
• Strong ability to analyse business needs and translate into business user requirements
• Skilled at performing business process and gap analysis with the ability to identify opportunities for process optimisation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible and adaptable with experience of working to tight/changing deadlines
• Delivery and detail focussed when implementing changes to support business requirements
• Can do attitude (no job is too small or too big) with the ability to work on your own or as part of a bigger team

Desirable:  

• London Market Broker experience
• Formal PM and/or BA qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, BCS)
• Experience of Target Operating Model design/rollout; system implementations; general business change
• Experience of platform re-writes, system integrations, automation and use of AI/(G)AI.

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Scheduled

Full Time Permanent