Programme Manager/Director - Insurance Platform Migration...

Location: UK-wide hybrid, with travel to client sites as required
Contract: Initial 6 months, with potential extension to 12 months
Start date: June 2026
Engagement type: FTE

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager or Programme Director to lead a complex platform migration programme for a major insurance client.

This is a high-profile role supporting the migration of a legacy insurance platform onto a modern cloud-based environment. The programme sits across multiple stakeholder groups, including an insurance provider, a major banking partner, internal technology teams, and senior business stakeholders.

The client needs someone who can bring structure, confidence, and commercial judgement to a complex delivery environment. This is less about being the deepest technical expert in the room and more about being the person who can bring people with them, manage senior relationships, ask the right questions, and keep delivery moving.

You will act as the bridge between the insurance organisation and its strategic partner, helping to strengthen programme governance, improve stakeholder confidence, and ensure the migration is delivered with clarity and control.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading a complex insurance platform migration from legacy technology onto a cloud-based environment

• Managing programme delivery across business, technology, operational, and third-party teams

• Acting as a senior client-facing lead, building confidence with senior stakeholders and external partners

• Providing structure, governance, and delivery discipline across a complex programme landscape

• Translating between business, insurance, and technology stakeholders to keep priorities aligned

• Managing risks, issues, dependencies, plans, governance forums, and senior reporting

• Supporting the client in strengthening its delivery capability and stakeholder engagement

• Ensuring delivery remains commercially aware, outcome-focused, and well-controlled

• Helping teams make practical decisions in an environment with competing priorities and senior visibility
  

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience as a Programme Manager, Programme Director, or Senior Delivery Lead

• Around 10 years’ experience in complex change, transformation, or technology delivery

• Strong insurance domain knowledge, ideally across general insurance, underwriting, policy platforms, or insurance operations

• Proven experience managing senior client and partner relationships in a complex environment

• Experience delivering technology-enabled change, ideally including platform migration, cloud migration, or legacy modernisation

• Ability to operate confidently between business and technology teams

• Strong governance, planning, risk, issue, dependency, and stakeholder management skills

• Experience facing off to senior stakeholders where delivery confidence, control, and credibility matter

• A pragmatic, commercially aware approach to programme delivery

• Willingness to travel to UK client sites as required
  

Experience that would be useful

• General insurance experience, particularly underwriting, policy administration, or broker/intermediated insurance environments

• Experience in banking, bancassurance, financial services partnerships, or regulated client delivery

• Previous work on cloud migration, platform replacement, core system transformation, or legacy modernisation programmes

• Experience working with major insurers, banks, consultancies, or technology delivery partners

• Exposure to assurance, governance, remediation, or delivery recovery environments

• Experience with RSA-style insurance environments, underwriting platforms, or complex insurance technology estates
  

You will suit this role if you are calm, credible, and comfortable stepping into complexity.

You do not need to be a hands-on architect, but you do need enough technology delivery experience to understand the moving parts, challenge plans, and keep teams honest. The real value is in your ability to manage senior stakeholders, bring order to a messy programme, and build confidence across the client and partner landscape.

You will need strong insurance literacy, good commercial judgement, and the confidence to represent the client well in a senior, externally facing environment.

Why this role?

This is a chance to step into a visible, business-critical platform migration programme at a key stage of delivery.

You will play a central role in improving programme control, strengthening engagement with senior stakeholders, and supporting a major insurance transformation. For someone who enjoys complex, client-facing delivery work, this is a proper grown-up programme role, with plenty to get your teeth into.

How to apply

Please apply with your CV, highlighting your insurance experience, programme delivery background, and any relevant platform migration, cloud migration, or legacy modernisation work.

Vantage Point Global is a fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent and welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

To apply, you’ll need to provide us with a CV and answer a few initial questions. If you have not heard back from us within three weeks of the date of your application, we will not be progressing your application.