Lead Project Manager

Location:

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Finance, Banking & Insurance Jobs

Advertiser:

Royal London Group

Job ID:

131652053

Posted On:

05 March 2025

Job Title: Lead Project Manager

Contract Type: 24 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location:
St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

Working Style: Hybrid 50%

Closing date: 18/03/2025 

Royal London Ireland 

is seeking applications for an experienced Project Manager to manage
a
 key business transformation and IT migration project over a Fixed Term basis. The programme of work being planned is Royal London Ireland’s key IT project for the next few years. You will be addressing technical debt concerns for the business and building and updating the IT platform that enables Royal London Ireland to continue meeting customer and broker’s needs, maintaining and building its position in the Irish market.

You will support the management and progression of the project for Royal London Ireland through to its completion.  You will ensure that the business is prepared and ready to use the updated technology at the completion of the programme of work.  You will ensure outcomes are clearly understood and associated solutions are delivered to enable the project to realise benefits on time, within budget and to agreed quality and service standards. 

About the role

-Proven working experience in project management delivering both Business and Technical change initiatives in a financial services, and ideally insurance (Protection or Pensions), environment
-Proven experience in managing and enacting a successful data migration project in a financial services environment
-Proven experience in business readiness activities and ensuring that the business is fully prepared for the completion of the project
-Experienced in dealing with stakeholders at varying levels (including senior leadership) within the business including all reporting updates to governance committees
-Experience of leading project teams with minimal support and supervision
-Experience and / or knowledge of Agile and Waterfall delivery practices
-Experience of managing project resources and budgets, ensuring that project remains within the scope of the approved business case
-Ability to work with teams of varying sizes, with experience of scaling up project teams as needed dependant on the needs of the project
-Ability to work effectively on multiple, concurrent, or competing projects, and with multiple multi-discipline workstreams consisting of SMEs at varying levels of seniority within an individual project
-Highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks
-Experience of working with external technology delivery partners and suppliers
-PRINCE2 or APM qualifications and awareness of basic accounting principles of life and pensions sufficient to be able to set context of project drivers desirable.
-Understanding of data governance and risk environment, and the overarching regulatory environment in Ireland desirable 
 

About you

-Strong client-facing and internal communication skills
-Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor approach to different levels of stakeholders
-Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
-Strong resolution management and negotiating skills
-Work effectively as part of team/s, identifies and effectively solves problems, and collaborates effectively on consistent basis
-Able to act decisively in critical situations
-Champion for change initiatives goes the extra mile behind the scenes to ensure project success.
 

About Royal London Ireland

Based in our city centre location on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin 2, 

Royal London Ireland

 is a fully owned subsidiary of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, the largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company in the UK. We are authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and provide protection products through Financial Brokers across Ireland. Our excellent customer service and mutual mindset means we take a longer-term view and focus on providing best customer outcomes.

Our 

People Promise 

to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We’ve always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to public holidays, up to 14% employer matching pension scheme contribution and a contribution to private medical insurance. You can see details of our benefits here – 

Our Benefits

. Please note benefits for colleagues in the UK and Ireland may vary, please ask our team for details.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging 

We’re an 

Inclusive

 employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background. 

 

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