Project Manager (UW Operational Improvements - Commercial Insurance)

Position: Project Manager (UW Operational Improvements - Commercial Insurance)
Location: Remote position
Duration: 12 Months with Possible extension
Employment Type: C2C
Client: PMA Companies

$60/hr on CTC

Overview:
Experience as a Program Manager in Commercial Insurance domain, with a strong command over both Agile SDLC and waterfall methodologies. Will manage small/medium projects (some concurrently) for Underwriting (UW) Operational improvements.

Project Manager will act as a leader within the client organization, managing large enterprise projects and/or individual programs consisting of inter-related and concurrent projects with a goal of actively and consistently supporting all efforts. The individual will work on large projects in insurance domain, is extremely adaptable, manages and provides leadership for highly complex programs or projects. The role collaborates to define scope, requirements, project governance, design, testing, timeline, budget. The role requires exceptional communication skills and an ability to build and maintain working relationships with team members, and other departments involved.

Responsibilities:

• Manages large strategic projects or a set of projects.
• Track's project status and creates delivery roadmaps working in partnership with executive IT leadership and technical teams to ensure clear communication of the on-going development and implementation of all initiatives.
• Performs critical team resource management and performance management to ensure project objectives are delivered on-time and within budget.
• Executes on-going monitoring and continuous improvement plans to ensure team is executing with optimal efficiency.
• Serves as an overall leader and liaison between various business units, vendors, Information Systems, Information Security, and impacted business units.
• Adheres to, contributes toward, and mentor other project managers and scrum masters as needed and contributes to continual improvement. This includes adherence to budgeting, financial forecasting, cost accounting and project management standards across the program.
• Ensures all issues and risks are clearly monitored and managed across the entire project.
• Ensures adherence to overall program and project control point compliance.

Qualifications:

• Four-year degree or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.
• MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred.

Prior experience working in the Commercial Insurance (P&C) as a Project Manager.