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.
