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About the Role
This role manages the delivery of programs and projects by leading project teams and partnering with business stakeholders. You will be the primary point of contact for project status and budget reporting. You will also work closely with third-party contributors to manage schedules, risks, and issues.
What You’ll Do
- Lead programs and projects to achieve defined business outcomes, building a team of business, IT, and third-party stakeholders to design and deliver people, process, and technology solutions
- Serve as the main point of contact for business sponsors and stakeholders
- Learn the assigned business function, processes, and systems, and use that knowledge to remove roadblocks and anticipate risks
- Apply project management best practices and follow established framework standards, including obtaining required approvals
- Manage interdependencies across projects so that individual project goals and overall program benefits are met
- Build quality business cases and oversee estimates, benefit commitments, and project costs, including contingency
- Monitor the project budget, provide monthly forecasts, and communicate potential overruns early
- Maintain the project schedule with third-party contributors, tracking progress and critical path dependencies to forecast resource needs and costs
- Produce status reports, decision logs, and meeting documentation, and escalate risks and issues as needed
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 7 years of relevant experience
- Experience delivering and managing multi-year, complex programs
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of project management techniques and tools
- Understanding of the business drivers behind change in the information technology and insurance industries
- Working knowledge of IT environments, solutions, and strategies
- Working knowledge of the systems development lifecycle
- Ability to communicate clearly at all levels and present to influence leaders and key stakeholders
- Ability to identify improvement opportunities and turn them into business deliverables
- Experience conducting gap analysis between current and desired future state
- Ability to estimate time and resources, anticipate obstacles, and adjust plans as priorities change
- Experience coaching and mentoring team members
- Skill in building constructive working relationships and open lines of communication
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