Delivery Lead reference: R1163474

Job Description: Delivery Lead Manchester, Leeds or Staines Permanent £50k - £60k DOE and location + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits Full time: 37.5 hours per week 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 workstreams 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 workstreams in line with the identified delivery methodology Create and manage optimised project plans, budgets, critical success factors and key milestones for all workstreams 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). Prince 2 and Agile trained (desirable) 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. 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 why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. Time Type: Full time Job Area: Locations: Angel Court, London, Staines - Willow House Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference. Please introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that sounds like a good match.