Job Title: Senior Business Change Project Manager

Division: Group Change and Operational Assurance

Reports To: As per Beazley's organisation chart

Key Relationships: Group Change, Corporate Strategy, Underwriting Teams, Group Claims, Risk Management & Compliance, Product Development, Operations, IT Value Streams and Finance

Join Beazley as a Senior Business Change Project Manager!

Are you passionate about driving change and making a positive impact? Beazley is looking for an active and experienced Senior Business Change Project Manager to join our Group Change division. At Beazley, we believe in fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can thrive.

About the Role

As a Senior Business Change Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in identifying and implementing improvements in business processes and delivering change initiatives across their full lifecycle, from initial idea generation through to benefits realisation. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to embed change within the business, focusing on how individuals and teams transition to new processes and practices to achieve planned benefits;

Senior Business Change Project Managers plan and coordinate initiatives from inception to delivery; managing activities, resources, budget and people to achieve desired outcomes and enable strategic initiatives
They provide oversight and challenge to project operations, performance and viability in terms of outcomes, delivery, benefits and financial management
They partner with stakeholders to deliver high value, strategically aligned customer outcomes, and achievable benefit realisation
Using their understanding of change and delivery management methods and tools, they ensure efficient & effective project delivery

Key Responsibilities/Competencies

Gain an in-depth understanding of the Beazley business and technology landscape and have a strong knowledge of the variety of distribution channel target operating models.
Ensure project alignment to strategic pillars, roadmap and outcomes
Align teams/stakeholders around a clear vision and outcomes, defining OKR's to continually measure progress / mitigate risk
Actively ensure benefits are realised, tracking through delivery to completion, ensuring effective BAU handover post closure

Planning and Scheduling

Plan in accordance with Beazley Governance processes, within a variety of project/product delivery frameworks.
Plan with foresight, applying lessons learned
Track progress/milestones in-line with outcome related planning
Proactively ensures that mitigating actions are developed and integrated into the plan
Resource forecasting / Understand resourcing impacts to budget
Identify / Assess risks to delivery
Assess the ability of plans to deliver benefits

Change Assurance and Control

Actively assesses and communicates the impact of the change on the portfolio and provides challenge & insights back to the team
Ensure best practice change management is embedded throughout the lifecycle
Actively assess the impact of the change on the business, provides challenge & insights back to the team
Articulate decisions/direction and ensure they are being reported to the correct level of delegated authority

Decision Making and Developing Solutions

Makes key decisions in tight timescales with available data, balancing risk and speed
Respond to emerging info and re-evaluate decisions
Develop practical solutions & implementation plans

Business Case development

Ensure stakeholder requirements are fully considered in the business case for change
Effectively size the case for change, engage with stakeholders to determine measurable benefit plan, evidence cost and projected timeline for spend
Identify and quantify challenges, impacts and risks to change delivery and integration and provide alternatives

Business Readiness

Leads stakeholder engagement and understands business readiness impacts on projects
Develops business readiness plan/supports Change Manager in developing
Partner with teams and stakeholders to coach, motivate, and collaborate around outcome delivery and blocker removal

Benefits Management

Ownership of benefits definition and management approach in the business case
Identify and mitigate internal and external risks
Define benefit profile and associated OKR's to ensure accurate progress tracking

Relationships

Relationship building:
- Develop relationships with trading and operational teams, senior management and other staff throughout Beazley, and ensure that there is an open and constructive dialogue regarding business needs, wants and issues at all levels, as relevant to the initiative or on-going department/system responsibility.
Communications:
- Ensure that all relevant staff receives clear and frequent updates regarding initiatives or issues, as necessary.
Outreach:
- Develop and maintain constructive relationships with peers in organisations similar to Beazley, in order to share information and ideas in an appropriate manner, where this offers long term benefit to Beazley.
Understanding the broader environment:
- Work with Lloyd's and related external entities to ensure successful implementation of external, related processes and systems within the Beazley environment (where relevant).

Personal Specification

Business Change Qualifications

Project & Change Management and Agile PM certifications.

Knowledge and Experience

Ideal relevant experience in the insurance industry (preferably Lloyd's and/or Company market)
General commercial and financial knowledge

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