Project Manager
Salford Quays M50 3SP
Hybrid working
Permanent
£43.600 – £45.000 + fantastic benefits
Full time 37.5 hours
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.
Job Purpose:
To manage and delivery of change projects and initiatives, ensuring tasks are defined, resourced and effectively managed, including scoping, planning, managing and implementing innovative and successful solutions to Business problems and ensure at all times quality outcomes are delivered on time and within budget for all assignments. You will be expected to maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business ensuring requirements and needs are understood.
What you'll do:
- To drive and manage the successful delivery of all assigned projects and initiatives. Plan and manage resources, whether Business or IT (internal or external), cost effectively to deliver the required Business outcomes
- Work closely and ensure early involvement with the delivery teams and key suppliers to ensure they can contribute to all phases of delivery as may be appropriate
- Realise opportunities to reduce cost and increase service throughout the duration of the project
- Draft project mandates, estimate costs and resource requirements, and produce project briefs and initiation documents to ensure that all work is accurately sized
- Create and manage optimised project plans, budgets, critical success factors and key milestones for all projects
- Effectively engage and manage vendors, focussing on strong delivery capability and cost efficiency opportunities for the project as well as Bupa holistically
- Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies and manage change holistically
What you'll bring:
- To have strong knowledge and expertise in business and/or IT project management and be able to manage multiple project work streams and activities.
- A track record in successfully delivering projects up to £1million, managing a number of project staff within an enterprise/corporate environment
- To be able to demonstrate a professional and credible image to the Business with excellent interpersonal skills.
- To have an excellent understanding and knowledge of the full project lifecycle and have project management experience; within a recognised project management methodology (e.g. Prince2, Agile, SDLC;).
- To be able to demonstrate good stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different stakeholders.
- Must have a tenacious approach to problem solving
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.
Time Type:
Full time