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Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Delivery Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of strategic technology initiatives across multiple markets within the insurance industry. The role will drive regional programme execution, oversee governance and financial performance, manage delivery teams and vendors, and ensure successful implementation of scalable technology solutions that support business growth and operational excellence.
The ideal candidate will bring deep insurance domain experience, strong technology delivery expertise, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across business and technology. This individual will translate strategy into execution while ensuring delivery quality, cost efficiency, risk management, and adherence to governance standards.
Programme & Delivery Leadership
Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale business and technology programmes across countries, channels and business units.
Develop and manage programme plans, delivery roadmaps, resource plans, milestones and release schedules.
Ensure delivery within agreed scope, budget, timeline and quality expectations.
Manage complex dependencies across business, technology, vendors, architecture, security and market teams.
Regional Rollout & Transformation Management
Drive regional implementations and market rollouts, ensuring alignment between Group and Local Business Units.
Establish repeatable delivery frameworks and implementation approaches that enable scalable adoption across markets.
Oversee deployment readiness, change impacts, transition planning and post-launch stabilisation.
Stakeholder Management
Build trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders, executive sponsors and market leaders.
Act as the primary delivery contact for steering committees, governance forums and senior leadership updates.
Facilitate resolution of delivery challenges, risks and competing priorities with clear decision options.
Communicate progress, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions in a concise and transparent manner.
Technology Delivery Oversight
Partner with architects, engineering teams, product owners and vendors to ensure successful solution delivery.
Provide delivery oversight across digital, data, cloud, integration, AI and enterprise platform initiatives as relevant.
Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture, security, compliance and operational standards.Support technical decision-making by balancing business outcomes, cost, speed, complexity and risk.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Establish and maintain delivery governance, reporting cadence and RAID management processes.
Lead programme governance forums, SteerCo preparation and executive reporting.
Identify, assess and mitigate delivery risks and issues proactively.
Ensure compliance with insurance regulatory, risk, security, audit and operational requirements.
Financial & Cost Management
Manage programme budgets, forecasts, purchase orders and financial performance against plan.
Track vendor spend, programme costs, resource utilisation and delivery efficiency.
Drive cost optimisation opportunities while protecting delivery quality and business outcomes.
Support business case development, investment governance and benefit tracking.
Agile Delivery Leadership
Champion Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies across distributed and cross-functional teams.
Drive sprint planning, backlog management, release planning, dependency management and continuous improvement.
Foster a culture of accountability,…