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Lockton - Experienced Professional

Title

Business Project Manager

Description

The Business Project Manager plays a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of cross-functional change across Lockton Europe.

Operating within the PMO Team and reporting to the Lead Project Manager, this role is responsible for the end-to-end management, governance, and coordination of complex business projects that support our ongoing growth, integration, and operational transformation agenda.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, multi workstream business projects & programmes from mobilisation through to transition into BAU.
• Define project scope, success criteria, outcomes and value case; manage change control throughout delivery.
• Build and maintain integrated plans, roadmaps, milestones, resourcing and delivery cadence across workstreams.
• Manage cross programme dependencies, sequencing and business capacity constraints; escalate trade-offs and replan recommendations.
• Co-ordinate target operating model change, process redesign, and role/accountability changes to embed the new ways of working.

Governance, Controls & Reporting

• Establish and run project governance, including RAID, decision logs, action tracking and reporting packs.
• Manage budgets, timelines, risks, issues and dependencies; provide clear options and recommendations for timely decisions.
• Define and maintain benefits realisation plans (owners, baselines, measures) and track value delivery through and post implementation, driving corrective actions where needed.
• Ensure project outputs meet internal control, compliance and audit requirements, maintaining appropriate evidence, approvals and traceability.
• Ensure management information and reporting impacts are understood and delivered (data definitions, KPIs and agreed "single source of truth" measures).

Stakeholder Engagement & Change

• Act as the interface between business sponsors, SMEs, Technology teams & delivery partners.
• Lead structured change impact assessments (by function, role and location) and translate impacts into actionable adoption plans.
• Own the change approach across communications, training and engagement, including success measures and feedback loops to monitor adoption.
• Facilitate cross functional alignment & decision-making, resolving conflicts & removing blockers.
• Manage third-party suppliers/partners (where applicable) to ensure delivery to agreed outcomes, milestones and governance standards.

Business Readiness, Cutover & Transition

• Plan and run business readiness activities (people, process, data and controls), including readiness reviews and go/no-go recommendations.
• Lead business cutover planning and co-ordination with Technology, including hyper care and transition to operational owners.
• Ensure updated processes, procedures, training materials and knowledge transfer are in place prior to BAU handover.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Significant project management experience across business transformation.
• Experience in delivering new system implementations
• Strong understanding of the insurance/reinsurance industry.
• Track record delivering complex projects using both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to lead and influence cross functional teams.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable with fast paced, evolving priorities.

Desirable

• London Market broking or financial services experience.
  Experience in Target Operating Model implementations, integrations, business transfer or new system implementations.
• Familiarity with tools such as Monday.com, Jira, or ServiceNow.
• Certifications such as MSP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, or Prosci.

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Scheduled

Full Time Permanent