About the Role
We're supporting a leading General Insurance organisation seeking an experienced Migration Programme Director to provide leadership across a strategically important Policy Migration programme. With significant executive visibility, this role requires a proven programme leader who can quickly assess the current landscape, establish clarity around delivery, and inject pace and confidence into the programme. Working closely with business, technology, and third-party partners, you will help ensure the migration strategy is translated into a realistic, achievable delivery plan and successfully executed. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a complex transformation initiative and play a critical role in delivering one of the organisation's most important change programmes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the overall direction and delivery of the Policy Migration programme.
- Establish clear governance, accountability, and decision-making frameworks.
- Create confidence across Executive stakeholders through transparent reporting, risk management, and delivery oversight.
- Drive focus, momentum, and successful outcomes across all programme workstreams.
- Validate the existing migration approach and establish a clear roadmap for delivery.
- Ensure business, operational, data, and technology considerations are fully aligned throughout the migration lifecycle.
- Identify and address delivery risks, dependencies, and barriers to progress.
- Drive successful planning and execution of migration activities.
- Build trusted relationships with senior business and technology leaders.
- Act as the primary point of engagement for Executive stakeholders and programme sponsors.
- Facilitate informed decision-making through clear communication of risks, trade-offs, and delivery priorities.
- Align multiple stakeholder groups around shared programme objectives.
- Ensure effective oversight and management of external suppliers and delivery partners.
- Challenge delivery assumptions, plans, and timelines where required.
- Drive accountability across all parties involved in programme execution.
- Foster collaborative relationships that support successful programme outcomes.
- Ensure migration activities minimise operational disruption and business risk.
- Drive readiness across impacted business teams and functions.
- Maintain focus on delivering measurable business value and successful adoption of change.
- Support the organisation in transitioning successfully to its future-state operating environment.
Requirements
- Experience in Large-Scale Policy or Platform Migration Programmes
- Experience in Enterprise Transformation and Change Delivery
- Experience in Data Migration Strategy and Execution
- Experience in Programme Recovery and Delivery Acceleration
- Experience in Senior Executive Stakeholder Management
- Experience in Third-Party Vendor and Systems Integrator Management
- Experience in Insurance Technology Transformation
- Experience in Governance, Risk Management, and Programme Controls
- Highly credible Programme Director with a track record of leading complex migration initiatives within insurance or broader financial services environments.
- Comfortable operating in challenging delivery environments, bringing structure where there is ambiguity, driving accountability across multiple stakeholders, and maintaining confidence at Executive level throughout the programme lifecycle.
- Leadership capability, delivery experience, and stakeholder influence required to help a critical migration programme achieve a successful outcome.
Experience Level
- Experienced Programme Director
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
- 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.
