Project Manager

Deliver Project Management:

• Consult with management and review proposals for goals, time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources.
• Oversee internal and external systems/application development projects from inception to successful implementation: project objectives, scope and level of effort; project strategies and plans; assist with getting projects off the ground, keeping them on track and on budget, and resolving issues; monitor progress against plan.
• Develop consolidated project plans, specifying high level goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources. Monitors, analyses, assesses deviation from the project plans & ensures the achievement of project milestones. Ensures that all project plans are realistic and are maintained.
• Ensures that project metholdologies are followed and that all mandatory project work products are completed for projects.
• Consolidate technical scope and objectives of all projects considering cross-project needs and opportunities.
• Assess and coordinate scheduled project deliverables, milestones and required tasks across projects.
• Coordinate across projects or workstreams, respond to, monitor, and document requests for changes from original specifications.

Exhibit Leadership Effectiveness:

• Assist with the assignment of project personnel.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project resources to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget.
• Confer with project resources to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project teams throughout the project life cycle.
• Create and maintain an engaged work environment by ensuring clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
• Own project results and assist teams to deliver performance within the range of targeted expectations.
• Assume key overall responsibility for ensuring that sponsors have easy access to information that is useful to them.
• Work closely with business sponsors to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs
• Lead the effort in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Follow established standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
• Review status reports prepared by project personnel, and modify schedules and plans as required.
• Prepare project status reports, and keep management, customers and others informed of project status and related issues.
• Coordinate update meetings to communicate plans, status and issues to higher levels of management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management or equivalent work experience
• 6 - 10+ years in project management including large complex tranformational project
• Experience with Agile (including scrum techniques and artifacts such as Scrum, Kanban, user stories, backlogs, Scrum/Kanban boards, sprint planning, retrospectives, burndown metrics, velocity).
• PMP and Agile Certifications desired

P&C Insurance experience desired