Senior Project Manager (IT)

Location: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

Project budgets: £1m–£3m

Company

hirify.global Specialty - Global Markets operates in the insurance and financial services sector, with this role located in Information Technology.

What you will do

• Run and manage multiple complex IT infrastructure, workplace, or application projects with budgets of approximately £1m–£3m.
• Define project charters, scope, budgets, resources, schedules, delivery approaches, sequencing, and governance requirements.
• Drive delivery against business and technical requirements, agreed budgets, milestones, compliance gates, and production transition plans.
• Manage vendors, third parties, onshore and offshore resources, SOWs, purchase orders, contracts, and resource onboarding and offboarding.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues, manage impacts, and keep projects on track through stakeholder and management engagement.
• Track costs, forecasts, accruals, documentation, approvals, and project health reporting in SAP and Clarity.

Requirements

• At least 5–7 years of experience successfully managing IT infrastructure, workplace, or application projects in technically complex and dynamic environments.
• Experience in global finance, insurance, or another regulated industry is preferred.
• Strong project management, financial management, change management, facilitation, and delivery leadership skills.
• Ability to manage complex organisational structures, unify functional and geographic workstreams, and balance business outcomes with priority constraints.
• Excellent communication skills and experience managing diverging stakeholder interests and presenting meaningful project health reports.
• Proven ability to manage and track project costs and budgets against agreed baselines.
• Consulting and collaborative working style, with the ability to build accountability and standardise delivery practices.
• Experience developing less experienced project managers, modelling expected behaviours and standards, and helping build high-performing teams.
• Fluent spoken and written English required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in London, United Kingdom.
• Regular employment with hirify.global Specialty - Global Markets.
• Projects involve collaboration across organisational and geographic teams.
• Work supports consistent, accountable, and standardised project delivery practices.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the hirify.global careers portal.
• Candidates are encouraged to apply even if their experience does not align perfectly with every listed requirement.