Director, Delivery Lead

London Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

In this Director, Delivery Lead role, you drive London Market technology delivery for Everest Global Markets, turning business priorities into executable delivery plans. You will lead cross-functional teams across business, technology, vendors, and global delivery, providing transparency on progress, risk, and value to senior stakeholders. You’ll apply agile, hybrid, or traditional delivery methods to complex insurance technology programs, with a focus on speed, quality, and regulatory alignment. A key hook is shaping impactful, data-driven delivery at scale in a risk-focused financial services context.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery of a portfolio of London Market technology initiatives from planning through implementation and transition to BAU
Own delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets, resources, and governance
Run agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery approaches based on the needs of the initiative
Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to shape priorities, manage backlogs, and link delivery to OKRs and measurable business value
Prepare senior-level reporting including RAG status, SteerCo packs, dashboards, and financial summaries
Identify and resolve risks, issues, impediments, and cross-team dependencies
Coordinate delivery across business, engineering, QA, architecture, data, operations, vendors, and global delivery teams
Use delivery metrics and KPIs to improve transparency, predictability, and continuous improvement
Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise standards, architecture governance, information security, regulatory expectations, and operational readiness
Champion and explore AI to accelerate delivery speed and quality

Key requirements

Strong proven delivery capability across complex technology change with governance, budgets, and risk management
Deep understanding of London Market insurance, specialty insurance, Lloyd’s, delegated authority, or broader commercial insurance processes
Experience with underwriting workflow, placement platforms, quote-to-bind, policy administration, bordereaux, bureau processes, downstream reporting, or regulatory change
Proficiency applying agile, lean, hybrid, and traditional project delivery models
Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, Tempo, PPM, and delivery reporting dashboards
Strong facilitation, coaching, negotiation, and consensus-building skills
Ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions
Data-led mindset with metrics-driven delivery improvement
Comfort in fast-paced, multi-priority, distributed environments
Strategic enough to see the bigger picture while unblocking delivery
Experience managing vendors, contractors, distributed teams, and global delivery models
Experience in Agile Project Management, Programme Management, and portfolios of smaller projects
London Market, Lloyd’s, and specialty insurance experience
Experience implementing Underwriting Workbench platforms for the London Market and integrations with Whitespace and PPL
Experience enabling AI throughout the Software Delivery Lifecycle to increase productivity