Technical Project Manager in Bournemouth, United Kingdom

About The Role

Team – Technology Delivery

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role

• Extensive portfolio delivery leadership
• Proven strategic decision-making
• Strong cross-functional influence

What this role is all about

We're looking for a Technical Project Manager to drive a portfolio of complex projects, bringing together teams from across Technology to deliver meaningful business outcomes. This role plays a pivotal part in shaping delivery strategy, navigating dependencies, influencing priorities and ensuring successful execution across squads, value streams and Agile Release Trains in a SAFe Agile environment.

Key Actions

• Lead the delivery of multiple technology projects, ensuring successful outcomes and measurable business value.
• Shape and drive delivery plans with senior stakeholders, providing clear direction across cross-functional teams.
• Balance priorities, resources and timelines, making key decisions to keep delivery on track.
• Bring together experts from engineering, architecture, product and technology to build high-performing teams.
• Oversee project governance, including risks, budgets, milestones, dependencies and reporting.
• Maintain clear and achievable delivery roadmaps aligned to business and technology priorities.
• Monitor progress, identify risks early and take action to overcome challenges and keep projects moving forward.
• Coordinate releases and deployments, ensuring teams and stakeholders are ready for successful implementation.
• Support and mentor delivery professionals, helping to strengthen delivery capability across the business.

What do you need to thrive?

• Experience leading complex technical delivery at portfolio, programme or multi-project level
• Proven accountability for the successful delivery of outcomes across multiple concurrent technology projects
• Experience making delivery decisions across priorities, sequencing, scope, capacity and resource deployment
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing stakeholders across organisational boundaries
• Strong portfolio governance experience covering RAID, budgets, benefits, dependencies, reporting and change control
• Demonstrable experience coaching Project Managers, Scrum Masters or other delivery professionals
• Excellent senior stakeholder management skills and the confidence to present clear options, recommendations and decisions
• A recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2, AgilePM or PMP, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working within SAFe, scaled Agile or another complex Agile delivery environment would be advantageous

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
• Be there for you when you need us
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

We’re incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created — recently being named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2026 , and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards.

Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.

We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.

Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.

Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Vitality’s approach to sustainability

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.