Programme Manager/Director - Insurance Platform Migration - UK hybrid at Vantage Point | City of London | Rezi

Programme Manager/Director - Insurance Platform Migration - UK hybrid at Vantage Point

Programme Manager/Director - Insurance Platform Migration - UK hybrid

Vantage Point · City of London

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Programme Manager/Director - Insurance Platform Migration - UK hybrid

Vantage Point · City of London

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About the Role

Lead a complex platform migration programme for a major insurance client, migrating a legacy platform to a modern cloud-based environment. This high-profile role requires managing multiple stakeholder groups and bringing structure, confidence, and commercial judgment to a complex delivery environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a complex insurance platform migration from legacy technology onto a cloud-based environment
  • Manage programme delivery across business, technology, operational, and third-party teams
  • Act as a senior client-facing lead, building confidence with senior stakeholders and external partners
  • Provide structure, governance, and delivery discipline across a complex programme landscape
  • Translate between business, insurance, and technology stakeholders to keep priorities aligned
  • Manage risks, issues, dependencies, plans, governance forums, and senior reporting
  • Support the client in strengthening its delivery capability and stakeholder engagement
  • Ensure delivery remains commercially aware, outcome-focused, and well-controlled
  • Help teams make practical decisions in an environment with competing priorities and senior visibility

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a Programme Manager, Programme Director, or Senior Delivery Lead
  • Around 10 years’ experience in complex change, transformation, or technology delivery
  • Strong insurance domain knowledge, ideally across general insurance, underwriting, policy platforms, or insurance operations
  • Proven experience managing senior client and partner relationships in a complex environment
  • Experience delivering technology-enabled change, ideally including platform migration, cloud migration, or legacy modernisation
  • Ability to operate confidently between business and technology teams
  • Strong governance, planning, risk, issue, dependency, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience facing off to senior stakeholders where delivery confidence, control, and credibility matter
  • A pragmatic, commercially aware approach to programme delivery
  • Willingness to travel to UK client sites as required
  • Calm, credible, and comfortable stepping into complexity
  • Sufficient technology delivery experience to understand moving parts, challenge plans, and keep teams honest
  • Ability to manage senior stakeholders, bring order to a messy programme, and build confidence across the client and partner landscape
  • Strong insurance literacy
  • Good commercial judgement
  • Confidence to represent the client well in a senior, externally facing environment

Skills

  • Platform migration
  • Cloud migration
  • Legacy modernisation
  • Programme governance
  • Stakeholder management
  • Risk management
  • Issue management
  • Dependency management
  • Client relationship management
  • Partner relationship management
  • Commercial judgement
  • Delivery discipline
  • Technology delivery

Location

  • UK-wide hybrid
  • Client sites

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Contract

Experience Level

  • Senior
  • 10 years experience

About the Company

  • Vantage Point Global is a fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer.
  • We are passionate about attracting diverse talent and welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Equal Opportunity

  • Fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer.
  • Welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.