Senior, Project Manager

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At Amplify Health, we’re looking for individuals with ambition, resilience and passion for healthcare, insurance, wellness  and digital technology. As a fast-growing business with the ambition of making people and communities across Asia healthier, we have exciting career opportunities available to help us achieve our vision.

The Senior Specialist, Project Manager, Vitality is a senior delivery leadership role responsible for the end-to-end management of the Vitality programme's project portfolio. The role combines hands-on delivery of key strategic projects with portfolio-level oversight, people leadership, and financial stewardship across all Vitality initiatives.
This position plays a critical role in ensuring that the Vitality programme delivers consistently, predictably, and in accordance with industry best practices. The role-holder will coach and develop junior delivery team members, maintain overall programme budget health, and act as a key interface between the Vitality technology team, senior business and technology stakeholders, including, but not limited to Legal, Risk and Finance teams.

Responsibilities

1) Portfolio Management & Governance

• Maintain a consolidated, real-time view of all active and upcoming projects within the Vitality programme, ensuring full portfolio visibility for leadership and markets that we support.
• Establish and enforce portfolio governance frameworks, prioritisation criteria, and stage-gate processes aligned to Amplify Health's delivery standards.
• Manage cross-project interdependencies, resource conflicts, and capacity constraints across the Vitality portfolio.
• Produce regular portfolio health reports, dashboards, and executive briefings for senior stakeholders and programme leadership.
• Ensure alignment of the project portfolio with the Vitality platform roadmap, business strategy, and organisational priorities.
• Facilitate portfolio planning cycles (quarterly and annual) including pipeline forecasting and resource allocation.

2) Project Delivery Leadership

• Directly own and lead key strategic projects within the Vitality programme from initiation through to closure.
• Define project scope, objectives, milestones, resource requirements, and success criteria in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
• Drive delivery in Agile, hybrid, or waterfall environments as appropriate, ensuring adherence to agreed methodology and governance standards.
• Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve project risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers before they impact delivery outcomes.
• Ensure all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and business acceptance criteria prior to sign-off.
• Oversee User Acceptance Testing coordination and production readiness activities for Vitality projects.

 

3) Estimation, Budget & Financial Management

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project cost estimates, business cases, and budget forecasts across the Vitality portfolio.
• Own and manage overall Vitality programme financials, including budgets, actuals, forecasts, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Partner with the Finance function to ensure accurate cost allocation, PO management, and timely financial close processes.
• Provide robust effort and cost estimations to support investment decision-making and business case approvals.
• Identify and drive cost optimisation opportunities across the portfolio without compromising delivery quality or timelines.
• Maintain transparency with leadership on financial performance, flagging risks and variances proactively.

4) Risk, Quality & Governance

• Identify potential risks and issues early in the project lifecycle.
• Develop and implement mitigation strategies to address risks and resolve issues promptly.
• Maintain a proactive approach to problem-solving and conflict resolution.
• Ensure that all deliverables meet the highest quality standards.
• Ensure thorough testing and validation of deployed solutions to confirm functionality and performance.
• Maintain strong delivery governance, comprehensive project documentation, including plans, reports, and communication records.
• Prepare and present project status reports to stakeholders, including senior management and clients.

5) Delivery Standards & Best Practice

• Define, document, and embed project management best practices, templates, tooling, and delivery frameworks across the Vitality programme.
• Ensure all projects adhere to industry-standard methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum, PRINCE2, PMI/PMBOK) appropriate to the context.
• Drive consistency in delivery quality, reporting cadence, and governance practices across all Vitality projects and project managers.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, conducting retrospectives and lessons-learned reviews to raise programme maturity over time.
• Act as the Vitality programme's subject matter expert and point of escalation for delivery methodology and standards.

 

6) People Leadership, Coaching & HR

• Provide direct line management, coaching, and day-to-day guidance to junior project managers, delivery coordinators, and relevant delivery staff within the Vitality team.
• Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, and development conversations, setting clear objectives and growth plans.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of new delivery team members in partnership with HR.
• Foster a high-performance, psychologically safe delivery culture built on accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure HR matters within the team are handled in a timely and consistent manner, in accordance with Amplify Health policies.
• Act as an escalation point and advocate for team members, resolving blockers and supporting wellbeing.

Candidate Profile

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• 10+ years of project and programme management experience in technology or digital delivery environments.

• Proven track record managing a portfolio of concurrent technology projects simultaneously.

• Strong financial acumen, with direct experience in budget ownership, cost estimation, and financial forecasting.

• Demonstrable experience leading, coaching, and developing junior team members in a delivery context.

• PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent project management certification strongly preferred.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum, waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments.

• Familiarity with health, wellness, or insurance technology is advantageous.

• Proficiency with project management tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Mirro) and reporting/BI tools.

Competencies & Core Characteristics:

We are seeking a leader who embodies the following competencies and characteristics essential for success in our scale-up environment:

• Technical & Delivery Capability: Proven experience delivering projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Hands‑on experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar. Strong understanding of system integrations, data platforms, and enterprise technology environments.
• Unifier & Cross-Functional Influencer: Builds strong relationships across diverse teams, fostering collaboration and alignment between business, technology, and external partners. Skilled at influencing without authority and driving consensus in complex environments.
• Resilient Operator: Thrives under pressure, managing multiple projects and vendors in a complex enterprise environment. Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and adaptability in fast-changing conditions.
• Data-Driven Decisiveness: Balances deep analytical rigor with the need for speed. Makes informed decisions quickly in the face of ambiguity and adapts strategies based on market feedback and trends.
• Insatiable Curiosity: Demonstrates a growth mindset, seeking out new insights and innovative approaches to solve customer challenges.

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