Project Manager - Intermediary Business Unit (IBU)

Irish Life is one of Ireland’s largest financial institutions with a presence across a range of financial services markets.  We are one of Ireland’s leading financial services groups with over 1 million customers. For over 75 years, we’ve been helping people to look after their life insurance, pension and investment needs, and more recently their health insurance.

It is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies.

We are proud of our culture of developing and supporting the growth and professional development of our people. The focus has resulted in a team of top talent with high standards, positioning us at the forefront of our industry.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the IBU Strategy Director the role holder will be responsible for managing strategic projects within the IBU. They will be responsible for ensuring the alignment of key objectives and outcomes at the required pace, liaising with the Executive Sponsor (Group SLT member), the IBU Strategy Director, Senior Program Manager, external consultants, individual business sponsors and workstream leaders.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage all aspects of projects within their remit, including project documentation, project plans, risks and interdependencies.
• Support project work streams to implement and deliver the various aspects of the IBU strategy programme.
• Work with SMEs to deliver the work stream objectives.
• Work with the Senior Program manager to maintain the standards for project methodology and ensure the use of the methodology throughout the project
• Support tracking and evaluating, synergies, benefits, costs and budgets
• Build relationships with all of the related internal and external teams so that relationships between teams can be managed, dependencies identified and plans are built to mitigate against risks and constraints
• Co-ordinate between the lines of business (horizontal)
• Prepare regular programme reports for the IBU Strategy Director
• Provide guidance and support to various sub-workstreams.
• Ensure effective reporting, structure and governance throughout the strategy programme delivery
• Monitor the strategy workstream budget
• Ensure that all members of the project workstreams are delivering on the various project tasks assigned to them

Behavioural Competencies

Communication and Influencing

Leadership

Drive for Results

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Planning and Organising

Irish Life is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. We have created an environment of inclusion and growth to help people achieve their potential, to ensure they can bring their whole selves to work and to feel valued.  We celebrate diversity of thought and perspective and want all of our employees to feel valued, respected and supported.  We have built a culture that promotes equality and inclusion for all of our current and future employees and strive to ensure that our behaviours, processes and practices are aligned to this culture.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process please contact lifecareers@irishlife.ie and we will be delighted to ensure you are fully supported to be your best

The company reserves the right to draw up a shortlist as part of the selection process.  The selection process employed will be at the discretion of the Group.
 

The ideal candidate will have:

• A third level qualification in Project Management, Finance or IT
• Experience of leading projects successfully to completion realising stated benefits
• A broad understanding of the compliance and regulatory framework governing intermediary and wealth businesses
• The ability to work well with the programme team and senior business executives
• Understanding of HR / change management and communications aspects of major change programmes
• Proven ability to set and measure targets, to organise work and resources to meet the programme objective
• Proven ability to work within multi-disciplined teams to achieve agreed objectives on time and within budget