Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join INSTANDA, a leading Insurtech company, as a Senior Project Manager and play a key role in our growing Client Delivery team. You will manage projects for enterprise-scale clients, ensuring successful and timely product launches using our no-code platform. This role requires a proactive, technically savvy individual who can handle changing priorities and build strong client relationships. You will collaborate with various teams, including developers, designers, and business analysts, to deliver innovative solutions. The position is UK-based, primarily remote, with some travel to the London office. INSTANDA offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including generous holiday allowance, flexible work options, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 + years of experience as a Project Manager, with a proven track record of delivering agile software projects within scope and budget and on-time; you will also have experience of working within the Insurance industry
• As a seasoned Project Manager you will be able to demonstrate your high level of competence in project scoping, project planning, defining key project milestones, tracking and planning team and client-facing deliverables
• You’ll have experience of the end-to-end project lifecycle and you will have specific experience of platform or systems replacement projects where measuring interoperability and performance has been key to the project success
• We want to understand the depth and breadth of your stakeholder relationship management approach and skills as we need you to consult with our clients and partners on product configuration, development, QA and business and technology integration
• A key part of stakeholder management will be an executive audience, so the successful candidate will have the gravitas and personality to successful own these relationships and therefore be able to understand the detail of the project whilst remaining in control of the bigger picture, setting and achieving project success criteria
• You will have experience and understanding of industry standard project methodologies and you will have experience in operating in an agile delivery model
• You will have the ability to provide direction and guidance to technical teams and managing based on outcomes and objectives
• We need you to be confident in presenting to clients and partner organisations and have the understanding and experience to lead commercial conversations

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing the delivery of projects within scope, on budget and on-time
• Co-ordinating internal resources on client engagements and fully scoped projects
• Being the point of escalation for internal team members and the key client stakeholders
• Demonstrating executive level project governance management
• Managing numerous projects concurrently and deploying an agile delivery model to meet all deliverables
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and reporting
• Create and maintain project documentation in collaboration with the PMO function
• Manage and mitigate against project risk
• Collation and delivery of internal and client-facing activities
• Acting as a benchmark for the quality of project delivery within INSTANDA

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of SaaS or platform technology solutions will be a distinct advantage
• You’ll have an ability to multi-task and handle competing deadlines in our fast-paced dynamic environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance , in addition to public holidays
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin
• Freedom Pass work up to 4 weeks of the year from anywhere
• FlexiBank you decide when to use your public holiday allocation
• Hybrid Working approach varying with the nature of your role
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme
• ��100 per month to put towards wellness activities
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250
• Free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platform