Job Title: Project Manager
Division: Chief Underwriting Office
Key Relationships:
Underwriting Business Management, Underwriters, Underwriting & Claims Operations, Claims, IT, Underwriting Management, Exposure Management, Regional CUOs, Underwriting Strategy, consultants and providers
Job Summary:
The Project Manager role is responsible for the organisation and planning of activities associated with the Chief Underwriting Office, overseeing a wide range of project management and associated administrative tasks. This includes coordination for department and company-driven initiatives, in addition to project execution support. This role sits within the planning and business management function and will interact with a wide range of stakeholders within the Underwriting divisions and across the business globally.
Who We Are
Beazley is a specialty insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to be become and be recognised as the highest performing sustainable specialty insurer, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture
We employ over 2,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.
Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers – 1) Being bold 2) Striving for better 3) Doing the right thing. Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.
We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as iLearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, our mentorship program and external qualification sponsorship. As a Beazley employee, you also get access to our fantastic array of benefits which include commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, six months parental leave and a lifestyle allowance amongst many others.
Key Responsibilities:
Transformation / Project Management Responsibilities
- Organises, attends, and participates in project meetings, this could be through working or steering groups if required.
- Develop project plans, including scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, risks and resource requirements
- Monitors project progress, identifies specific and programme wide risks and implements mitigation strategies to ensure timely and successful project completion
- Works with project leads and stakeholders to gather and document project requirements
- Manages project budgets, monitoring expenses and ensuring effective resource allocation
- Oversees project risks and issues through identifying, communicating and monitoring risks / issues.
- Follows defined project communication strategies for project updates, status reports, and stakeholder comms.
- Presents project updates and results to project stakeholders, Group and Regional CUOs, Underwriting Leadership and Business Management team
- Analyses business processes and workflows for both new and existing processes, identifying and implementing efficiencies that can be gained
- Analyses and interprets data for projects, including underwriting, claims and operations data to identify trend patterns and insights to support data-driven decision making and inform overall project strategies
- Leads project meetings as required
- Documents project meeting outcomes, including meeting minutes, actions, and risk/remediation logs
- Works with risk management as required
- Works to deliver change as required across underwriting divisions.
- Works with project leads to build and distribute meeting agendas
- Engages with stakeholders to collect follow ups to project meeting actions
- Schedules project meetings and notifies project manager of attendance records
- Uses project management software to keep project files updated
- Liaises with project management and delivery teams to document project requirements
- Creates project management calendar for fulfilling project milestones and other goals
Business Management and Planning Support Responsibilities
- Drives support activities associated with Underwriting Business Planning as required.
- Engages with stakeholders in business management roles to aid collaboration across teams.
- Gets involved in other company-led projects as appropriate
- Shares progress with wider Business Management team as required
- Prepares materials for UWC, Away Days and Business planning challenge sessions as required.
General:
It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers." We also expect Beazley employees to:
- Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct.
- Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system
- Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers
- Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs
- Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management
- Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.
Personal Specification:
Education & Qualifications
- Flexible – all educational backgrounds and qualifications will be considered
Skills & Abilities
- Strong organisation skills
- Ability to dissect problems and solve independently
- Collaborative across all levels of the organisation
- Communication skills – both written and oral
- Able to learn new technologies to be used for project management
- A proven ability to communicate effectively with different levels of staff
- Strong documentation and presentation skills
- Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
- Motivational skills
- Team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
Knowledge & Experience
- Administration and/or coordination experience
- Successful track record of planning and actively delivering tangible results
- Project coordination experience in consulting environment highly advantageous
Aptitude & Disposition
- Delivery focussed, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
- Professional approach to interact successfully with various stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail
Competencies
- Problem solving
- Effective communicator
- Achievement orientated
- Personal impact
- Leadership