Programme Executive

Our success goes together with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this, in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas: Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.

We’re passionate about what we do and like to make a difference to our employees and customers.

Department Vision 

Admiral Data & Technology has a long history of supporting the business to innovate and bring new products to market. The department continues to build on top of and around the core systems to bring more innovation and technical excellence, including Cloud adoption, big data technologies and furthering our digital offerings.  The Portfolio Management Office (PMO) helps to support and deliver the vision, through facilitating Leadership to make informed decisions and deliver high quality changes using lean governance.  We have a hybrid portfolio of Agile delivery, Value Streams and traditional Projects that the team support with all assurance activities.

The Role

We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a hands-on PMO role with a passion for supporting the delivery of change, whilst keeping things lean and fast paced.  You will be aligned to a strategic Programme and undertake activities such as reporting, information management, financial tracking, risk/issue management, change control and maintaining governance standards.  Your main focus however will be on quality and assurance during all aspects of delivery.

You will be supporting a number of programmes within the Data & Technology Group, there will be opportunity to help us shape and grow the PMO function.  You will be encouraged to identify opportunities to reduce governance overheads whilst ensuring the Programmes/ Projects still meet their minimum requirements.

Your responsibilities:

• Play the role of critical friend to your delivery stakeholders
• Working with a Programme to implement a Quality Assurance strategy;
  • Define and support governance.
  • Provide assurance with the project framework standards.
  • Identify and analyse key gaps relating to quality and drive improvement activities to close gaps.
• Produce and track project timelines, schedules, resource & financials.
• Communication, management and escalation of Milestone Plans, Risks, Issues, Dependencies and Actions (RAID).
• Support tracking of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) or key metrics agreed by Leadership.
• Facilitate key Programme checkpoints and meetings.
• Support any PMO interactions with the wider business.
• Provide quality information on Programme progress to the Portfolio Office.
• Drive transparency, collaboration and continuous improvement mind-set with the PMO.

Skills & Experience 

As you’ll be working within a key strategic programme you have solid experience in a hands-on Programme support role.  You will have a good background in both waterfall and agile practices and ways of working with an enthusiasm for stakeholder support and quality assurance. 

You will have experience in project resource planning and reporting, RAID management, and comprehensive quality checks.  You are very detailed orientated and possess excellent time management and organisational skills to be able to work across different projects within the Programme.  You will be happy to assess other people’s work and deliver feedback in a supportive and productive manner.  Working with people to identify and analyse any quality concerns, suggesting solutions and improvement measures.

You will be proficient using tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Office Suite, and PowerBI. 

We want someone who is passionate about quality and continuous improvement.  You will have innovative ideas to keep us evolving and pushing our team and its ways of working forward.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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