Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

• 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

Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

• 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