Delivery Lead Job Manchester area,Stretford England UK,Business

Delivery Lead (C16) Manchester, London or Staines 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Salary from £56,000 DOE and location 10% Management Scheme bonus Full time: 37.5 hours per week 2 days in the office per week mandatory We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns The role

In this role you will be responsible for delivery of business change initiatives or work streams of larger complex business change projects. With the customer experience at the heart of decisions you will be responsible for delivering defined business benefits and outcomes while closely managing cost of delivery.

You’ll help us make health happen by

Leadership of planning, shaping and management of change initiatives or work streams in line with the identified delivery methodology
Create and manage optimised project plans, budgets, critical success factors and key milestones for all work streams
Lead appropriate project and workstream teams, negotiating and influencing with resource managers to ensure they are optimised to achieve the agreed outcomes
Encourage effective working relationships with colleagues across Bupa and third parties, motivating them to gain commitment, support and resource to deliver project work
Effectively engage and manage vendors, focussing on strong delivery capability and cost efficiency opportunities for the initiative
Successfully coordinate the initiative and its dependencies, ensuring clear management and control of scope, budget and quality. Setting the team cadence and flow, ensuring a consistent and sustainable delivery of activity
Agree responsibilities clearly with individual delivery team members

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

Substantial experience in business and IT change
Results oriented and focussed on adding value to Bupa. Strong commercial acumen and broad business awareness
Be able to demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills across a wide range of different senior stakeholders
Ability to thrive in pressurised environments, with a clear approach to decision making and tenacious approach to problem solving, constantly searching, and striving for effective solutions
Demonstrate a tenacious approach to problem solving, constantly striving for effective solutions with the customer at the heart of everything
Experienced in risk, resource, and cost/benefit management.
Experience of multiple business and IT project delivery methodologies (e.g., MSP, Prince2, Agile, SDLC).

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
Annual performance-based bonus
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.