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 and championing large 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, 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 define and deliver the work stream objectives. This will require a hands-on approach whereby the role holder will deliver some work packages themselves.
- Work with the IBU Strategy Director to communicate and maintain the standards for project methodology and ensure the use of the methodology throughout the project
- Take the lead on 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) and corporate (vertical) teams
- Prepare regular programme reports for the IBU Strategy Director
- Challenge colleagues to ensure that overall project design concepts are forward thinking and capable of meeting future business requirements
- Lead the team and provide guidance and management to various sub-workstreams. At times this will be difficult as workstreams do not report to the post holder. Workstream leaders will also have other competing priorities.
- Assess and review effectiveness of the team, the resource levels and the structures throughout the strategy programme delivery
- Suggest changes to the resource level & structure of the teams and roles within teams to react to the developing needs of the strategy
- Oversee the strategy workstream budget
- Ensure that all members of the project workstreams are delivering on the various project tasks assigned to them
Behavioural Competencies
Drive for Results
Planning and Organising
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Leadership
Communication and Influencing
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.
Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- A third level qualification in Project Management, Finance or IT
- Significant experience of leading complex 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 lead a project team, 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
