Business Project Manager !!! Jersey City, NJ (Onsite)

Job Title: Business Project Manager

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: NJ

Client Industry: Insurance

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Business Project Manager to lead strategic and operational initiatives for a leading insurance client. The ideal candidate will combine strong business acumen with hands-on project delivery expertise, including roadmap planning, change management, financial planning, and stakeholder management. The role demands a proactive leader who can drive results in a complex, cross-functional, multi-vendor environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a strategic project roadmap, aligning project objectives with business priorities and long-term organizational goals.
• Lead end-to-end project execution from initiation through delivery ensuring milestones, deliverables, and quality targets are achieved.
• Oversee financial planning and project budgeting, including cost estimation, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Manage project financials by tracking budgets, controlling costs, and optimizing resource utilization to achieve business value.
• Partner with finance teams to ensure accurate reporting of project spend, ROI analysis, and benefit realization.
• Drive change management initiatives to ensure successful adoption of new systems, tools, and processes.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across business, technology, and operations teams, ensuring alignment and smooth delivery.
• Manage relationships across a multi-vendor ecosystem, ensuring coordinated execution and accountability.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project and financial risks, maintaining governance and compliance with internal and industry standards.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, financial reports, and progress summaries to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Support business case development, including cost-benefit analysis, scenario planning, and resource justification.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Business, Finance, or Management (MBA preferred).
• 8+ years of experience in business project management, preferably within insurance, financial services, or consulting.
• Proven experience in project financial management budget creation, monitoring, and financial reporting.
• Strong understanding of roadmap planning, change management, and stakeholder governance.
• Experience managing large-scale projects in a multi-vendor or matrixed organization.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency with project and financial management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Smartsheet, Power BI, Excel).
• PMP, Prince2, or Agile certification preferred.