Manager - Project Delivery

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Welcome to Gallagher - a global community of people who bring bold ideas, deep expertise, and a shared commitment to doing what's right. We help clients navigate complexity with confidence by empowering businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you'll find more than a job; you'll find a culture built on trust, driven by collaboration, and sustained by the belief that we're better together. Whether you join us in a client-facing role or as part of our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and be part of something bigger. Experience a workplace where you're encouraged to be yourself, supported to succeed, and inspired to keep learning. That's what it means to live The Gallagher Way.

Overview

Gallagher is a global leader in Insurance broking, risk management and consulting, with over 71,000 employees worldwide in over 130 countries. We have a global reach with a local presence and pride ourselves on being a socially responsible and an ethical organisation expressed through our Shared Values, The Gallagher Way. We are proud to have been awarded one of Insurance Business Australia Top Insurance Employers and Forbes Best Employer for Women .

About the Role

This newly created role is an exciting opportunity to mobilise and lead the delivery of multiple projects and business improvement initiatives across Gallagher's Australian broking business. You will play a key role in aligning strategy with execution by developing structured delivery plans, coordinating stakeholders, managing risks and dependencies and ensuring change is effectively embedded.

Partnering with senior leaders and operational teams, the role will:

• Manage and deliver allocated projects and improvement initiatives, collaborating with teams across Technology, National Operations, Finance, Compliance and Distribution
• Develop business cases to present costs, benefits and other key information for effective decision making by the Executive team
• Establish and lead effective project teams, ensuring operational, system and behavioural changes are embedded to realise benefits
• Support transition from project delivery to business-as-usual operations, including change management and communications
• Provide governance oversight, reporting on progress, financials, risks and resourcing

Key Skills and Competencies

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Significant experience in successfully delivering concurrent projects and improvement initiatives in financial services environments
• Strong leadership skills for both direct and indirect reports
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Analytical, problem solving, and solution design expertise
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively and escalate appropriately when required
• Understanding of insurance products and insurance broking is highly desirable

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualifications desirable
• Formal project management qualification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) desirable but not essential
• Experience in Insurance broking. Insurance, or Financial Services is highly desirable

Gallagher Benefits - we offer great benefits and career development opportunities including tuition assistance; career development and training to build a personalised career pathway; wellbeing offerings; employee assistance program; additional weeks' Lifestyle leave; Gallagher Rewards for discounts at 350+ major retailers; Employee Stock Purchase Plan to invest in the company's growth potential; paid Volunteering days; and salary sacrificed superannuation options.

Apply now via our careers website, Gallagher Careers or for further information, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]

Any offer of employment and subsequent continuing employment is dependent upon the satisfactory completion of background checks by Gallagher or by an external third-party provider.

Gallagher is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to the principles of workplace diversity and inclusion. We welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.", "salary_raw": "Row(double=None, string=None)"}