Up to £65,000 + up to 25% annual bonus + PMI + benefits package
- 12-month fixed term contract opportunity.
- Based at our Ryon Hill office with excellent facilities and surroundings.
- Hybrid working with the option to work 80% of your hours from home.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Applications Delivery Manager to join our IT Corporate Core Customer Applications and Services department on a 12-month fixed term contract to lead our team of IT Workstream Leads and Data Mappers.
The successful candidate will provide day-to-day ownership of the IT aspects of the project or programme deliverables, ensuring that IT objectives are met and in line with expectations and timescales. You'll be working alongside senior stakeholders, driving change, and supporting our ITIL processes to ensure the project delivery is fit for purpose with a seamless transition into the IT business as usual team. You'll lead a team of multi skilled IT Workstream Leads, delivering IT changes and project assignments, providing appropriate governance, and ensuring alignment with overall programme or project goals.
As the IT Applications Delivery Manager, you'll be the primary point of contact for Programme Managers and internal teams, ensuring clear communication regarding project statuses, issues, and deliverables. You'll ensure the team of IT Workstream Leads work consistently and collaboratively in accordance with IT planning, resourcing, release, implementation, and governance processes, and manage, mentor, and lead the team of IT Workstream Leads and Data Mappers, maintaining a cross functional and collaborative work environment.
You'll oversee the team's delivery of the IT components, ensuring they meet NFU Mutual's IT standards, working with IT Workstream Leads and Project Managers to ensure that all potential IT risks to project delivery are captured, working with other IT teams to develop mitigation strategies.
You'll work closely with other IT Applications Delivery Managers to ensure that IT estimates are accurate and are provided in a timely manner and you'll monitor project resources, ensuring efficient and effective allocation and utilisation by all Programmes.
About you
As an IT Applications Delivery Manager, you'll have strong stakeholder management skills, ensuring best practice and industry standards are followed. You'll have excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey information clearly to diverse audiences and have the ability and confidence to analyse complex situations and make decisions and recommend effective solutions.
You'll be an experienced IT manager, with experience in leading and motivating teams, helping them achieve common goals. Using your strong organisation skills, you'll be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively and be comfortable meeting and setting deadlines. Demonstrating excellent technical knowledge, you'll have a strong understanding of project methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and underpinning Agile tools. You'll have the ability to build and mature delivery teams, their processes, and associated controls and have good commercial awareness.
At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
- Up to £65,000 annual salary
- Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Private medical insurance + options to add family members
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
Working at NFU Mutual
We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being "a great place to work" and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.
We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.
Closing date: 28th October 2024.