Senior Project Manager

Canopius require an experienced Senior Project Manager to jointhe Change Team in Manchester Centre of Operational Excellence office.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of complex, strategic projects across the Change portfolio.

The role leads end-to-end project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring initiatives are delivered within scope, time, cost, and quality parameters, while driving strong stakeholder alignment and business outcomes.

Operating across Change, Technology, Data, and Operations, the role plays a key part in embedding delivery standards, improving project capability, and enabling successful transformation outcomes.

Lead end-to-end project delivery, from initiation through to implementation and benefits realisation

Develop and manage integrated project plans, including milestones, critical path, and dependencies

Ensure delivery against defined scope, KPIs, timeline, budget and quality standards

Drive structured governance and reporting in line with Change methodology

Define and agree clear, measurable project scope and success criteria

Manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, ensuring proactive mitigation and escalation

Oversee resource planning and allocation to ensure effective delivery

Monitor delivery performance and take action to maintain alignment to plan

Build and maintain strong relationships across business, technology and data teams

Lead engagement with senior stakeholders, including C‑suite, to ensure alignment and decision‑making

Create and manage communication strategies to ensure transparency and engagement

Lead steering committees and governance forums

Lead cross‑functional delivery teams, ensuring alignment and accountability

Drive collaboration across Change, Architecture, Technology and business functions

Support successful adoption of delivered solutions, including rollout planning and stakeholder engagement

Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery standards, tools and practices

Identify and manage interdependencies across projects and programmes within the change portfolio

Support portfolio‑level planning and prioritisation activities

Contribute to improving delivery capability, standards and consistency across Change

Strong understanding of project and programme management methodologies (Agile / Waterfall / hybrid)

Experience working across business, technology and data environments

Demonstrated ability to manage risk, dependencies and competing priorities

Anunderstandingof theinsuranceindustry preferably London Market.

Proven track recordof successful strategic project/ programme delivery

Effective communication and presentation skills tailored for the needs of the audience and influencing skills

Good stakeholder management skills as the role will involve working with cross functional teams from all areas of the organisation and at all levels

Ability to produce high quality project documentation

Beingproactive and working in astructuredway

Experience working in multi ‑ disciplinary teams across Change, Technology and Data

Passion for improving delivery ways of working and contributing beyond individual assignments