Senior Programme Manager - Insurance, Transformation

Senior Programme Manager - Insurance, Transformation, Global, Market Entry

£Market Rate (Inside IR35)

London / Hybrid

6 months

I am currently working with a high-profile, instantly recognisable client who urgently requires an experienced Senior Programme Manager, with a strong Insurance background, to lead a strategically important transformation programme focused on establishing and scaling operations in a new market.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Senior Programme Manager leading large-scale business and technology transformation programmes within the Insurance sector
• Strong experience delivering market-entry, regional expansion, legal entity establishment or greenfield operational set-up programmes
• Demonstrable experience managing regulatory, compliance and governance requirements within highly regulated environments
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams across business operations, technology, legal, compliance, product and third-party suppliers
• Strong programme governance, planning, risk, dependency and stakeholder management expertise
• Experience driving organisational readiness, operational mobilisation and transition into BAU
• Proven ability to establish delivery structure and governance quickly within complex programmes
• Strong executive stakeholder management skills, with experience operating at C-suite and board level
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and third-party delivery partners
• Good technical understanding, with the ability to engage confidently on technology, integration and supplier-related discussions
• Ability to manage ambiguity whilst driving delivery against demanding regulatory and commercial timelines

Nice to Have:

• Experience launching new insurance products or services
• Experience establishing new business operations in a previously untapped market
• Immediately available

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