Insis Coe Team Leader at Britam

Job Purpose and Key responsibilities

Job purpose

The role holder will be responsible for leading the implementation of Insis motor and non motor across the six regional entities and deliver Insis system enhancements in Kenya.

Key responsibilities

• Undertake project initiation activities including preparing a project charter and business case for the Insis rollout and enhancement projects
• Provide strategic project planning, including preparing a comprehensive project schedule and project budgeting
• Mobilise project team consisting of internal business users, IT experts, business partners and third-party suppliers
• Manage the Insis vendor and other 3rd party vendors to ensure Insis regional rollout and Kenya enhancements are delivered on time, on scope and within budget.
• Project risk management including carrying out risk assessments and designing and implementing risk mitigation initiatives
• Develop and implement a communication and change management plan for the Insis rollout project
• Develop and implement a stakeholder management plan to ensure project success
• Take overall leadership of the technical delivery of the Insis rollout project
• Manage project CAPEX and OPEX budgets
• Provide periodic project status reports to key stakeholders
• Employ business analysis, system design and system testing methodologies to manage quality of project deliverables ensuring business requirements are fully met
• Plan Insis CoE resources to ensure implementations are completed on time and budget; and
• Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required

• Degree in Science/computer science/Engineering/Business related.
• Professional qualifications in Systems development, Business Analysis, project management or IT architecture
• 4-6 years’ experience as a systems developer/business analyst in a busy IT development environment, and at least 2 years in the Requirements Analysis function & Solutions Architecting function
• Business analysis skills (Advanced level) - demonstrated experience producing requirements that support test-driven development.

Technical and functional competencies

• In-depth knowledge of general insurance policy administration systems
• Logical and physical data modelling, relational databases.
• Experience in writing formal Use Cases and other UML tools
• Significant and proven experience in creating enterprise architecture, methodologies and standards in large IT projects.
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Experience with implementation of system testing best practices
• In-depth knowledge of software analysis in a multinational

Essential Competencies

• Leading and Supervising: Provides team with a clear direction based on the overall strategy and objectives of the department; motivates and empowers others with a clear sense of purpose; creates a positive climate that fosters learning and development; acknowledge high potential talent within the team; sets and articulates the vision and values through own personal behaviour.
• Persuading and Influencing: Gains clear agreement and commitment from other; promotes the departmental strategy and objectives during team conversations; promotes ideas on behalf of the team and or department; makes a strong personal impact on others; takes care to manage the team’s impression and brand on others.
• Presenting and Communicating Information: Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly; responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback; projects credibility.
• Adhering to Principles and Values: Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; encourages team and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.
• Analysing: Analyses numerical data and all other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships; probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis; demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.
• Planning and Organising: Sets clearly defined team objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances; identifies and organises resources needed to accomplish tasks; manages time effectively; monitors team performance against deadlines and milestones.
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations: Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic methodical and orderly way; consistently achieves projects goals.