Job Details
Job Description:
Principal Delivery Lead
UK / Hybrid working
Permanent
Competitive Salary & Bonus, Health Insurance, Car Allowance, Pension
Full Time – 37.5 hours
Closing Date for applications – 25th May 2024
We make health happen!
We’re a leading health insurer and healthcare provider, with care homes, health centres, dental practices and a hospital. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. Your input will support Bupa to deliver on our purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.
Bupa has 50 million customers worldwide; Group revenue in 2023 was circa £15 billion.
How you’ll help us make health happen:
We’re looking for a Principal Delivery Lead to join our Transformation team in our UK Insurance business. This role is accountable for driving delivery of large complex change initiatives spanning multiple simultaneous & connected deliveries, utilising the appropriate identified delivery methodology (e.g. waterfall or agile). You will be working with business leads and business stakeholders to define, plan, and deliver the defined outcomes in line with business & performance unit strategies.
Leadership of the planning, shaping and management of large complex change initiatives
Lead delivery teams in a matrix approach, negotiating and influencing with resource managers
Partner with Heads of Change & Transformation Delivery
Support change across multiple teams and varying team maturities and methodologies, using different methods and data points.
Act as Agile Release Train Engineer / Scrum Master
Ensure high quality relationships with Executive Sponsors
Encourage effective working relationships with colleagues across Bupa and with third parties to gain their commitment, support, and resource to deliver project work.
Determine when necessary to escalate to the Delivery Hub
Manage complex supplier relationships
Engage with senior stakeholders at Bupa
Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:
Senior Delivery Lead professional, well-rounded in variety of corporate projects (Customer, Digital, Pricing, Finance)
Agile project management expertise essential
Previous experience of managing large-scale Digital projects
Track record of partnering with Product / IT teams
Continuous Improvement backlog management experience
Excellent stakeholder management skills - gravitas to present at Board level
Tenacious approach to problem solving
Highly proficient in risk, resource, and cost/benefit management
Strong negotiating and influencing skills
Knowledge of the healthcare Insurance market is advantageous, not essential
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 for you and your family as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
25% Management Bonus (annual, discretionary)
Car allowance
Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
