Job Description
- Job Description:
- Lead IT projects from initiation to completion.
- Projects may involve: Implementation or customization of commercial off-the-shelf insurance applications Mobile/web technologies System integrations Software upgrades Intelligent Automation (RPA) Infrastructure (hardware)
- Manage 3 or more projects simultaneously depending on complexity, duration, and phase.
- Lead a project team of matrixed resources, resolving challenges related to resource allocation and scheduling.
- Build and maintain project schedules in MS Project/Project Server using effort-driven and auto-scheduled approaches.
- Reconcile project team time cards against planned hours, investigate discrepancies, and adjust project tasks to maintain accurate forecasts.
- Track and reconcile project financials in accounting tools; resolve variances between forecast and actuals, release excess funds when not needed, or request additional funding when baseline changes occur.
- Ensure strict adherence to all Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) processes, procedures, and templates.
- Identify, anticipate, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions; escalate appropriately and in a timely manner.
- Prepare and deliver twice-monthly project status reports.
- Engage regularly with project teams, business sponsors, stakeholders, portfolio managers, and other key stakeholders.
- Requirements:
- 5–7+ years of recent project management experience delivering IT projects with budgets of at least $150K.
- Proven record of delivering IT projects from start to finish.
- Familiarity with effort-driven project planning in MS Project.
- Strong skills in project management disciplines: planning, execution, monitoring, and control.
- Experience managing vendors, creating and executing Statements of Work (SOWs).
- Strong sense of urgency; ability to drive results from self and project team members.
- Balanced judgment—knows when to push back and when to adapt.
- Demonstrated leadership and “executive presence,” particularly in managing stakeholders and delivering challenging messages under pressure.
- Strong customer focus; collaborative, responsive, and accurate in work approach.
- Experience managing and forecasting project financials (invoices, timekeeping, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills with ability to deliver clear, concise messaging to all organizational levels.
- Sound judgment in decision-making, with ability to navigate complex options.
- Willingness to develop technical understanding of systems, data flows, and high-level architecture.
- Openness to learning and adopting new project management tools
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