Principal Delivery Lead (Digital)

Principal Delivery Lead (Digital) 

Job Type:         Permanent
Location:         London/Brighton/Manchester/Hybrid/Flexible

Function          UK Insurance - Transformation

Reports to       Head of Change & Transformation     
Salary:             Competitive
Consultant:      Mags Rendle  

An international healthcare company with headquarters in the United Kingdon and serving over 38 million customers worldwide are looking for Principal Delivery Lead (Digital). With no shareholders they reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

They currently employ around 85,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Middle East and Ireland.

This is your opportunity to work with a passionate and talented Transformation team in their UK Insurance business. You will be joining a truly special and supportive working environment with staff development and progression being a real focus. 

The Role

We’re looking for a Principal Delivery Lead with Digital project experience to join our Transformation team in their UK Insurance business. This role is accountable for driving delivery of large complex change initiatives spanning multiple simultaneous & connected deliveries, utilising the appropriate identified delivery methodology (e.g. agile). You will be working with business leads and business stakeholders to define, plan, and deliver the defined outcomes in line with business & performance unit strategies.

• Leadership of the planning, shaping and management of large complex Digital change initiatives
• Lead delivery teams in a matrix approach, negotiating and influencing with resource managers
• Partner with Heads of Change & Transformation Delivery
• Support change across multiple teams and varying team maturities and methodologies, using different methods and data points.
• Act as Agile Release Train Engineer / Scrum Master
• Ensure high quality relationships with Executive Sponsors
• Encourage effective working relationships with colleagues across the company and with third parties to gain their commitment, support, and resource to deliver project work.
• Determine when necessary to escalate to the Delivery Hub
• Manage complex supplier relationships
• Engage with senior stakeholders

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:

• Senior Delivery Lead professional, well-rounded in variety of corporate projects (Digital and Customer)
• Agile project management expertise essential
• Previous experience of managing large-scale Digital projects
• Track record of partnering with Product / IT teams
• Continuous Improvement backlog management experience
• Excellent stakeholder management skills - gravitas to present at Board level
• Tenacious approach to problem solving
• Highly proficient in risk, resource, and cost/benefit management
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills
• Knowledge of the healthcare Insurance market is advantageous, not essential

Benefits

The benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Their global wellbeing programme includes all aspects of  health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. They 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

•           Health insurance for you and your family as a benefit in kind

•           An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

•           25% Management Bonus (annual, discretionary)

•           Car allowance

•           Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

•           Various other benefits and online discounts

Why apply

You will have the opportunity to  work with a passionate and talented team, in a truly special and supportive working environment. Staff development and progression is a real focus, and a successful career is there for the taking.
 
Apply below And Mags will be in touch to discuss the role further.
 
The Digital Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.
To apply for this role please contact us at:
 Mags Rendle
0203 640 2133
mags@digitalrecruitmentcompany.com
www.digitalrecruitmentcompany.com