Principal Project Manager

Bromley, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Overview

As a global market leader, iPipeline combines technology, innovation, and expertise to deliver ground-breaking, award-winning software solutions that transform the life insurance, financial services, and protection industries. With one of the industry’s largest data sets, we help advisors/advisers and agents to transform paper and manual operations into a secure, seamless digital experience – from proposal to commission– so they can help better secure the financial futures of their clients.

At iPipeline, you’ll play a major role in helping us to provide best-in-class, transformative solutions. We’re passionate, creative, and innovative, and together as a team, we continually strive to advance, accelerate, and expand the reach of our technology. We value different perspectives and are committed to creating an environment that embraces diverse backgrounds and fosters inclusion.

We’re proud that we’ve been recognized as a repeat winner of various industry awards, demonstrating our excellence and highlighting us as a top workplace in both the US and the UK. We believe that the culture we’ve built for our nearly 900 employees around the word is exceptional -- and we’ve created a place where our employees love to come to work, every single day.

Come join our team!

About IPipeline

Founded in 1995, iPipeline operates as a business unit of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: ROP), a constituent of the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500®, and Fortune 1000® indices. iPipeline is a leading global provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance and financial services industries in North America, and life insurance and pensions industries in the UK. We couple one of the most expansive digital and automated platforms with one of the industry’s largest data libraries to accelerate, automate, and simplify various applications, processes, and workflows – from quote to commission – with seamless integration. Our vision is to help everyone achieve lasting financial security by delivering innovative solutions that connect, simplify, and transform the industry.

iPipeline is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, religious creed, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, and/or protected veteran status . We are committed to building a supportive and inclusive environment for all employees.

This is an office-based position.

Responsibilities

Purpose of the Role:

This role is primarily focused on the successful delivery of critical Professional Services projects covering our range of enterprise products. You will be liaising and managing with external clients, working closely with internal stakeholders and responsible for the scoping and solutioning of the project development delivery team.

As part of iPipeline’s growth and strategy this role is required to work with our UK professional Services Director to redefine and overhaul our delivery approach and practices to achieve our growth, scalability and performance targets and meet internal and external client delivery aspirations.

Responsibilities:

• Assume Project Management responsibilities on complex multi-year projects, influencing and communicating client activity
• Work with cross-functional colleagues to share best practices for problem resolution to ensure project needs are met – outcome, time, quality, commercials
• Prepare reports and materials; create and deliver presentations to all levels of colleagues, peer groups, and clients in ways that support problem solving and planning.
• Advocate on behalf of clients to senior management, identifying approaches that meet clients’ needs as well as those of the organization
• Adopt a collaborative approach to solution design and project delivery.
• Lead IPL engagements from commercial, contractual perspective, managing scope, deliverables, dependencies and schedule to ensure that the right outcomes are achieved for IPL and our clients alike. Budget Management? Monitor and manage program budgets, ensuring that expenses are kept within bill rates and margins. Create and manage billing activities. Participate in Program Planning discussions with client to forecast future revenue. Monitor and report on bill rate and expected profit margins within a program.
• Resource Management? Allocate resources across projects within the program to ensure optimal use of skills and capabilities. Liaise with department peers to support customer impacting initiatives (e.g. R&D, Product, Net Ops, Support).
  
  

Qualifications

• Substantial experience working in a similar capacity/role
• Demonstrable experience interfacing with external clients in a project management role (IT/Software)
• A professional qualification as a Project Manager (Prince2 Foundation or Practitioner, APM PMQ)
• Relevant Project Management experience (software delivery) ideally within Financial Services
• Demonstrate strong ability to run and manage project Profit and Loss projections (P+L’s)
• Demonstrable experience of having run and being accountable for delivery of multi-million and multi-year projects.
• Experience participating on Internal and Client-facing steering committees, dealing with senior stakeholders, communicating in clear, concise and efficient way.
• Ideally some experience in Agile at Scale (eg SAFe Agile Framework)
• Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Ability to self-manage time and prioritise workload
• Life insurance experience/knowledge preferable