Senior Project Manager

Working as part of our Claims Analytics team, you’ll be accountable for managing the end-to-end project life cycles, defining and leading the delivery of multiple project outcomes and realising the expected benefits. This role is expected to evolve over time, with increasing emphasis on product ownership and long-term capability development. With your expertise, you’ll be responsible for establishing and driving the business case, project governance, resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, risk management and business benefits;

ensuring the successful delivery of machine learning use cases and their KPIs to facilitate benefits realisation in BAU.

• Lead multiple Claims Analytics projects, ensuring UK regulatory compliance and programme governance throughout.
• Own end-to-end analytics capabilities, ensuring ongoing value and seamless integration with UK systems.
• Develop, justify and secure approval for business cases, aligning with UK financial and reporting standards.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, partners and consultants to deliver key initiatives.
• Manage project risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring compliance with UK-specific frameworks.
• Coordinate resources and third parties to deliver large-scale machine learning projects on time and within scope.
• Define project scope and objectives, involving stakeholders and ensuring technical and regulatory feasibility.
• Interpret analytics results and identify new opportunities, advising senior management on ROI and UK market trends.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

• Proven success managing large-scale projects across the full lifecycle, ideally within UK financial or insurance sectors.
• Experience in planning, budgeting and delivering business cases aligned with UK regulations.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement and communication skills within regulatory environments.
• Advanced project management certifications (PRINCE2, MSP, Agile) with expertise in scope, risk, quality and governance.
• Technical proficiency with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Confluence) and familiarity with data analytics platforms.
• Knowledge of UK data privacy laws, financial reporting standards and insurance industry compliance requirements.
• Understanding of analytics workflows, including data integration, model deployment and system architecture.
• Strong change management skills, with ability to lead cultural change.

• Competitive annual salary of up to £65,000
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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