Albany Beck are a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional career and personal development.
Role Overview
The Project Manager will lead and deliver high impact, business facing project(s), ensuring clear direction, strong stakeholder engagement, and effective governance throughout.
The role requires exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to influence, collaborate, and navigate diverse stakeholder groups including external marker participants.
The Project Manager will drive alignment across functions, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure outcomes are delivered to time, quality, and budget. Through proactive leadership and relationship building, the role will support successful organisational change and adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver all project deliverables within agreed scope, budget, and timelines, including the development of a full project plan and change communication strategy.
- Facilitate and organise workshops with defined outcomes, ensuring effective design, documentation, and positive participation from attendees.
- Contribute to project design and planning following the discovery phase, using insights to inform the business case and provide accurate effort estimations.
- Lead objective setting, scoping, governance design, and project setup, including establishing governance structures, budgets, and resourcing, and manage these throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage project risks and issues, developing contingency plans and escalating appropriately.
- Provide project management guidance, challenge, and oversight to senior stakeholders at all stages of the project.
- Communicate and manage expectations effectively across sponsors, team members, and internal/external stakeholders using appropriate communication channels.
- Coordinate and participate in strategic meetings, committees, and working groups, ensuring actions are tracked and completed.
- Produce regular reports highlighting progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions for sponsors and other key stakeholders.
- Maintain oversight of interdependencies with other projects and assess their potential impact.
- Apply relevant technical, quality, and delivery standards to ensure consistent and controlled project execution.
- Take primary responsibility for identifying and resolving project issues or conflicts, escalating when necessary.
Management of Risk and Controls:
- Contribute to an open and transparent culture of risk management and demonstrate a strong awareness of the risks that should be managed within the responsibilities of the role; and
- Deliver responsibilities in line with all relevant risk appetites, policies, reporting and when applicable, membership on or input to Lloyd’s risk committees.
- Report progress, risks and issues etc. to the PMO in line with the required cadence.
Key Skills and Experience
- Experience of working within the London Market, insurance or consultancy.
- Extensive project management experience and successful project delivery in a business change context
- Proven ability to operate, challenge and communicate at a senior level within an organisation
- Experience in effectively managing organisations and people in a change environment
- Proven ability to deal with senior level insurance industry professionals
- Commercially aware and up to speed with general issues/developments in the Lloyd’s Market.
Knowledge
- Experience and knowledge of various project management methodologies e.g. PRINCE, Agile etc.
- Understanding of the Lloyd’s and London insurance market would be beneficial
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