Project Manager – Change & IT

Job Description:

Project Manager – Transformation, Change & IT
Location: Brighton or Manchester, minimum 1 day a week in the office
Contract: Full time, 35hrs per week, Permanent position
Salary: Competitive + Benefits

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to join us in delivering transformation programmes and play a key role in delivering strategic change across a complex and regulated environment.

This is an exciting opportunity for a well-rounded Project Manager who can successfully lead a variety of initiatives, including technology programmes, partnership deliverables, regulatory projects, and business change activities. Working across major transformation workstreams, you will manage projects ranging anything from 5 months to over a year in duration, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, budget, quality and timelines.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in both Agile and traditional delivery environments, bringing the flexibility to adapt their approach based on project requirements whilst maintaining strong governance, financial control and stakeholder engagement. The role aligns closely with large-scale transformation and change delivery responsibilities outlined within the organisation's change portfolio.

How you will make health happen

• Lead end-to-end delivery of transformation and change projects across technology, regulatory, operational and partnership workstreams.
• Manage project scope, plans, budgets, forecasts, risks, issues and dependencies to ensure successful outcomes.
• Drive business readiness activities, ensuring stakeholders are prepared for change adoption and benefits realisation.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, sponsors and delivery teams across business and technology functions.
• Produce accurate project reporting, governance updates and financial forecasts.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and third-party suppliers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Ensure projects comply with business standards, governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
• Support programme-level planning and contribute to wider portfolio reporting and governance activities.
• Facilitate effective communication across all project stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities and delivery milestones.

About You
We're looking for a confident and adaptable Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering large-scale transformation initiatives.

What we are looking for

• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex, multi-faceted projects, comprised of various workstreams
• Dexterity, adaptation, and the creativity necessary to support competing delivery priorities.
• Extensive knowledge and real-world application of different project management methodologies, tools, and techniques, ideally within a regulated environment.
• Extensive knowledge and real-world implementation of business change into complex regulatory environments.
• Knowledge and expertise of managing change activity, typically comprised of multiple, concurrent technical and non-technical items.
• Proficient in risk, resource, and cost management.
• Expertise and experience in coordinating resources, and delivery planning.
• Established stakeholder management skills across a wide range of stakeholders including business customers and technology colleagues.
• Experience of working in a regulated and compliance led environment, including in international jurisdictions.
• Tenacious approach to problem solving, constantly striving for effective solutions.
• Experience of multiple business and IT delivery methodologies (e.g., MSP, Prince2, Lean, Agile, SDLC).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of the Insurance (preferable Private Medical/International Health) sector and/or healthcare environment and relevant business areas
• Well organised, works to deadlines, analytical and articulate.
• Must demonstrate the ability to think ahead and be proactive in understanding when to push issues hard to achieve a desired outcome.
• Proficient at business communication and cost management, including production of business proposals and managing significant budgets
• Experience of delivering change and managing teams across several international geographies

Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health, from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Health Insurance as a benefit in kind
• Local gym discounts
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

Ready to lead meaningful transformation and deliver real business impact? Take the next step in your project management career; apply now.

Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.

Bupa Global has offices around the world including London and Brighton (UK), Dublin (Europe), Miami (USA), Dubai (UAE, in partnership with OIC), Egypt and Hong Kong (China) as well as regional offices in mainland China, Singapore, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala and Ecuador.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Bupa Place, Victory House, Brighton