Project Manager

Job Description

Project Manager

Hybrid – up to 3 days WFH

Leeds, Manchester or Staines

Permanent

£48k – £53k DOE and location + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

In this role you will manage and deliver change projects and initiatives, ensuring tasks are defined, resourced and effectively managed, including scoping, planning, managing and implementing innovative and successful solutions.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

Drive and manage the successful delivery of projects and initiatives
Work closely and ensure early involvement with the product and delivery teams and key suppliers
Draft project mandates, estimate costs and resource requirements, 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
Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies and manage change holistically
Facilitate successful service introduction through the delivery of appropriate documentation and deliverables which will allow successful post implementation support
Contribute to the management and control of the procurement and tendering processes for services and solutions
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

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
Experience of working in a product environment, delivering projects aligned to the product model.
Experience of working in an Agile environment and the using agile methods, such as Scrum, Kanban or SAFe
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;)
Demonstrate good stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different stakeholders
Be proficient in risk, resource and cost management.
Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 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

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.