Project Manager - Life and Pension

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.
A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

About Atos Group

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 54,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

As a Project Manager you will be expected to:

• Plan and scope the project to ensure appropriate detail and scrutiny are executed from inception.

• Deliver the end-to-end activities of regulatory, contractual, and discretionary change projects for Atos, BPS clients.

• Manage activity stream leads, including the IT Solutions Design Manager, Risk Consultants, SMEs, Client-side stakeholders.

• Produce deliverables in accordance with the methodology being used to deliver the project (either waterfall, small change, or agile) using best practice toolsets

• Lead from the front on dealing with sponsors, stakeholders, and in maintaining delivery behaviours across the project team that reflect confidence, transparency, and control.

• Follow the governance, controls and repeatable processes of the EB Change portfolio, including reporting and budgetary tasks.

External Relationships: May involve working with 3rd party suppliers, internal Atos suppliers, and client-side

Internal Relationships: Operational business stakeholders, sponsors, Risk SMEs, IT Technical leads

Budget Holder: Responsible for the management of the project budget

Key Tasks:

• Work on a number of projects simultaneously

• Chair Working Delivery Groups, provide succinct and up to date reporting, manage escalations using appropriate governance, including items on the RAID log.

• Lead the Business Analysts to deliver the required info gathering and analytical tasks to support

Skills:

• Leading and motivating

• Full lifecycle understanding and competence

• Planning and forecasting

• Facilitation (for risk and issue discovery)

• Stakeholder Management

• Communication and Reporting

Required Knowledge:

• Project lifecycles and their deliverables

• Project delivery in Life and Pensions sector, a basic understanding of the products, processes and regulatory context

• Governance and RAID operation

• Business acceptance processes, and test verification

Preferred Experience:

• 5 years Project Management Experience in an L&P/Financial Services context

• Regulatory and Discretionary Change Delivery

• Risk and Controls project delivery

Qualifications: Preferred project management training in a formal method such as PRINCE2 or Agile.

Essential Criteria – SC Eligibility

To be eligible for SC clearance, you must have lived and worked in the UK continuously for the past 5 years.

Benefits:

Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%

Private medical cover

Income Protection

Life Assurance

25 days paid leave + National Holidays

Flex benefits program

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Atos, we want everyone to feel confident and supported throughout the recruitment process. As a proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant (EDAC) and Care Leaver Covenant, we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and life experiences.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will ensure the appropriate support is in place. Please contact the recruiter managing this vacancy or reach out to our dedicated mailbox: [email protected].

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