Programme Manager, Policy Expert
£90-120k
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2+ days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
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Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£90-120k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert's mission is to be the most successful insurance provider that people want to stay with for life. This will be achieved by creating proprietary technology that allows us to offer honest, transparent and easy to understand products.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced Programme Manager with proven expertise leading complex, multi-workstream technology initiatives—ideally cloud data and analytics platform implementations
- Adept at managing delivery in agile and cross-functional environments, skilled at providing structure, clarity, and governance to programme execution. Ideally you are familiar with the product management mindset, scaled Agile and/or the Spotify model
- Strong financial acumen, experienced in budget tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting at senior levels
- Excellent stakeholder and vendor management capabilities, able to confidently engage, influence, and communicate clearly with senior executives and technical teams alike
- Familiarity with data functions, tech stacks, outputs, and ways of working. Previous experience in the insurance sector is helpful
- Proficient in workflow management tools (e.g. JIRA), ensuring streamlined processes, transparent reporting, and effective collaboration
- Strategic thinker with exceptional organisational skills, able to proactively manage programme risks, dependencies, and outcomes, maintaining alignment with broader business strategies and priorities
- Highly effective communicator, able to provide compelling updates and presentations to executive-level stakeholders, ensuring continued alignment and support throughout the programme lifecycle
What the job involves
- The Delivery Management team at Policy Expert plays a pivotal role in ensuring the successful execution of strategic technology and business initiatives across our organisation
- We are responsible for bringing structure, clarity, and accountability to complex programmes, ensuring alignment with executive and strategic objectives
- The team fosters collaboration across technical and business functions, utilising agile methodologies and JIRA as the workflow management tool of choice
- You will report into the Delivery Management function but lead the Data & Analytics Platform Tribe (part of Group Data), with the mission to build, mature and transition into BAU a greenfield GCP-based data & analytics platform
- Have the ultimate responsibility for delivering the Data & Analytics Platform, overseeing three cross-functional squads: Infrastructure, Data Modelling, and Migration & Decommission
- Provide comprehensive programme management, including planning, scheduling, monitoring progress, and managing risks and dependencies with other programmes and initiatives
- Collaborate closely with Finance to monitor budgets, forecasts, and spend, ensuring financial clarity and accountability throughout the programme
- Collaborate with Product Management, Delivery Management, Group Data and other business stakeholders to make sure the solution is fit for purpose, delivered on time and within budget
- Regularly prepare and deliver transparent, structured progress reports to key stakeholders, including the programme Sponsor (Group Head of Data), Exec team, and Board
- Facilitate effective vendor and stakeholder management, maintaining clear, consistent, and productive communication across all programme touchpoints
- Ensure appropriate use of workflow management and agile delivery practices, leveraging tools such as JIRA to plan work, track milestones, manage backlogs (in partnership with Product Management), and report transparently on the programme health
- Champion clarity and structure, resolving ambiguity, and driving decision-making to keep the programme aligned with strategic objectives and delivery timelines
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1 million home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Having been built on a disruptive and ground-breaking platform, this established company is well positioned to continue building a customer base within the UK whilst keeping up with consumer trends.
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Company benefits
- 🤒 Private medical cover with Aviva
- 🚅 Travel season ticket loan
- 🎉 Access to selected London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
- 🏖️ 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- 🏠 50/50 hybrid working - we trust you to do your best work whether it's in the office or at home
- 💻 One off work from home equipment fund
- 💅🏻 Each year you are with us you can get an extra wellness day!
- 🥳 Social events through the year - monthly themed in office events celebrating festive holidays!
- 🦷 Private dental cover with Bupa
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
People progressing
Paul started with us as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined us back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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