Project & Change Manager

At Bupa, we're passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives. Right from the start you'll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way. Working for our Cromwell Hospital, the Project Change Manager role will lead, oversee and ensure the successful delivery and management of single or multiple projects, ensuring that these are delivered within scope, quality, time and cost constraints that may be clearly defined or may require dynamic change management. This is a hands-on role, looking for a self-starter, with strong technical, project and change management understanding, being able to shape the project implementation approach to achieving the desired business outcomes through delivery. How you'll help us make health happen:

• Drive execution of business change projects for IT.
• Develop the delivery strategy and leads the execution of the IT project.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Apply Agile principles and ceremonies to projects, whilst having experience with Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Develop and manage effective communication and liaison with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure that requirements are identified, assessed and appropriately integrated into the project.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline work plan.
• Coordinate cross-team projects.
• Impact analysis, training plan, communication plan, change readiness, stakeholder analysis, resistance management plan, embed change.
• Delivery Management, Reporting, Financial Delivery Control, Risk Management.
• Effectively engage and manage external vendors along with internal team.
• Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities.
  
  Proven work experience as a Project/Change Manager or similar role
• Experience on predictable planning and Agile ceremonies (Agile/SCRUM Master/Change Management/Risk Management certifications desirable but not essential)
• Advanced knowledge of managing all aspects of technology projects
• Advanced knowledge of managing business change
• Experience in leading and delivering complex IT change projects or programmes, ideally in a healthcare environment.
• Ability to anticipate stakeholder and colleague needs and respond accordingly.
• Experience in working in shared service environments.
• Proven experience in systems integration, migration and implementation projects.
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools (Microsoft Project, Jira, Dev Ops, Planner …)
• Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control
• Strong stakeholder management
  
  We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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 as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts