Innovation Delivery Manager

Innovation Delivery Manager – 9 to 12 month fixed term contract

Locations available: Peterborough, Manchester, Stoke-On-Trent, Sunderland and Southport (flexible hybrid working).

As Delivery Manager for Innovation, you will contribute to shaping our Technology Innovation and GenAI roadmap by facilitating the delivery of emerging technologies and translating them into practical, early-stage solutions. This role blends day to day delivery with strategic thinking, supporting both GenAI initiatives and broader technology innovation to inform and influence our strategic roadmap.  You will:

• Understand the challenges faced by the company and clients and how integrating GenAI and other emerging technologies can deliver significant benefit
• Identify and deliver a pipeline of proofs of concept and projects that align with our Innovation strategy
• Coordinate the Innovation team and continuously improve our Ways of Working

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a collaborative, high performing innovation team
• Champion and embed MVP & PoC principles in the team
• Own the end to end innovation delivery pipeline, managing intake, prioritisation and flow of the innovation work in line with strategic priorities, capacity, and risk.
• WoW - Continuously evolve lightweight, fit for purpose delivery practices (e.g. Kanban, Agile) to support fast, safe experimentation
• Ensure adherence to internal governance and standards, such as our SDLC, AA, AI Policy and other processes
• Manage stakeholders, both internal and amongst technology partners
• Support business users with adoption and troubleshoot issues
• Facilitate the transition from PoC to Production

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

• Strong practical experience using Agile and Kanban methodologies to manage flow, prioritisation, and delivery of innovation work in environments with evolving requirements.
• Compelling communicator and influencer, strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to challenge and shape business change from a technology and commercial perspective
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Systems thinker with strong focus of the right outcomes for our customers
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams and with a certain amount of ambiguity in requirements
• Commercial mindset, able to identify opportunities

Preferred:

• Previous experience of managing projects, and delivering within an Agile Framework
• Experience with innovation accelerators
• Experience with GenAI and an understanding of its potential impact on business

What we offer in return?

• A collaborative and fast paced work environment
• Health care cash plan
• Yearly bonus scheme
• 24 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays and the ability to buy additional leave (annual leave also increases with service)
• Life Assurance 4x annual salary
• Vibrant, modern offices

About the business:

Markerstudy is a leading provider of private insurance in the UK, insuring around 5% of the private cars on the UK roads, 20% of commercial vehicles and over 30% of motorcycles in total premium levels of circa £1.2b. Markerstudy also has a large and growing direct presence in the market as well.

Having acquired and successfully integrated Co-op Insurance Services in 2021, BGLi in 2022 & Atlanta in 2024. Markerstudy are now pursuing innovative pricing techniques, taking advantage of an award-winning insurer hosted rating platform, whilst challenging existing embedded processes.