Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 6 Month Contract

Location: Gloucester

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Project Manager on a 6month contract to join our Gloucester office.

This role is required to manage the effective delivery of an upgraded insurance platform and upgraded reinsurance platform run from an in-house on-premises system to a supplier managed cloud solution. This will include managing the supplier and internal resources to deliver both upgrades and cloud migration within the time, cost and quality parameters.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex system upgrades and cloud migrations, ensuring alignment with architecture, regulatory standards, and business objectives.

• Drive structured planning and governance, including impact assessments, regression testing, cutover/rollback strategies, DR testing, and controlled change management.

• Ensure compliance and operational readiness, validating functional, non‑functional, security, data, and regulatory requirements across insurance and reinsurance environments.

• Manage and govern third‑party suppliers, holding them accountable for delivery, quality, timelines, budgets, and integration into project governance and risk processes.

• Provide strong programme leadership, including integrated planning, financial governance, senior‑level decision support, and escalation of risks with clear analysis and recommendations.

What you'll need to have

• Proven experience delivering complex IT system upgrades for Insurance Policy Admin systems and Reinsurance systems

• Experience migrating complex IT platforms from on prem to MS Azure Cloud

• Previous experience managing multiple 3rd party suppliers including active supplier management

• Previous experience managing lprojects with budgets >£1.5m

• Ability to influence up to Director level and influence steering groups at Exec level

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams including technical, business readiness and non-technical scope and dependencies

• Delivering to demanding timescales while maintaining a motivated team

• Experience of working with different methodologies such as waterfall or Agile (SCRUM) to meet the required project outcome

• Analytical mind set, the ability to think laterally identifying root causes and confident in making recommendations.

• Experience of using the Microsoft 365 suite alongside Atlassian toolset (Jira) to manage and track projects.

• Prince II or APM

Hear from the hiring manager

""We’re seeking a Project Manager on a contract basis to manage the delivery of an upgraded insurance platform and reinsurance platform to a supplier managed cloud solution. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in our transformation journey, ensuring we deliver value at pace and scale."

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better. 

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26