IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager

Manchester, Leeds or Staines

Flexible / Hybrid working options (e.g. up to 3 days WFH)

Permanent

£49.5k - £62k depending on experience 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

Full time

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

Role Overview:

As IT Project Manager you will manage the delivery of large or complex change projects to achieve agreed financial and business outcomes. You will help build and deliver against a technology project pipeline, ensuring optimal utilisation of resources to support efficient and effective delivery of projects.

What you’ll do:

• Drive the successful delivery of multiple, simultaneous IT change projects and initiatives for Bupa
• Establish and manage effective and trusted relationships with key Business and IT project stakeholders
• Create and manage optimised project plans, resource requirements, budgets and critical success factors
• Control and monitor the project finances to ensure efficient delivery
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies
• Effectively engage and manage vendors, focussing on strong delivery capability and cost efficiency opportunities
• Acting as an ambassador of the Enterprise Platform & Services and the Programmes & Commercial team internally and externally

What you’ll bring:

• Have strong knowledge and expertise IT project and programme management delivering large or complex change
• Have extensive experience of multiple business and IT project delivery methodologies (eg, Agile, SDLC).
• Be able to thrive in pressurised environments, with a clear approach to decision making
• Be an advocate of change, with significant experience of implementing Business and IT change
• Be able to demonstrate advanced stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different stakeholders
• Hold strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate highly effective vendor management skills, combined with strong commercial acumen, in particular involving IT suppliers

Why Bupa?

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

· 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

· Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

· An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

· Annual performance-based bonus

· Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

· Various other benefits and online discounts

Diversity and Inclusion

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path.

Welcome to a place that celebrates you.

This isn’t where you've been.

This is where you're going.

This is what we have belief in.

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