Sr. Property & Casualty PM

Title: Sr. Property & Casualty PM

Location: 100% remote (candidate must work by EST business hours)

Duration: 12 months extendable contract position

Important: Candidate MUST HAVE current and several years of experience in Commercial P&C Insurance.

Summary

Position is responsible for successful delivery of project initiatives for the organization. This position resides in The Portfolio and Project Management Group and executes business plan projects that enable realization of the strategic objectives and tactical business plan goals for the organization and its group of companies.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT projects from start to finish. Projects may consist of one or a combination of implementation or customizations of commercial off-the-shelf insurance software applications; mobile/web technologies, system integrations; software upgrades, Intelligent Automation (RPA) and infrastructure (hardware).
• Manage 3+ projects simultaneously, depending on project complexity, duration and lifecycle phase. Average duration of most projects is 6 8 months.
• Manage a project team of matrixed resources. Resolve challenges presented by resource and schedule availability in matrixed organizations (project team members, including the PM, are rarely 100% dedicated to a single project).
• Create and maintain detailed project schedules for accurate schedule tracking and progress reporting that is effort-driven and auto-scheduled.
• Reconcile project team timecards from timecard system with planned hours in project plan; investigates and resolves variances between planned and actual time reported on timecards; adjusts project task effort/duration with the project plan as necessary to maintain correct forecast of ETC.
• Maintain and reconcile the project financial forecast in the project financial accounting tool; investigate and resolve variances between forecast and actual project costs. Proactively release excess project funds if not needed or request additional funding, when necessary, due to requested baseline changes.
• Accurately follow all documented PPM processes, procedures, and templates.
• Anticipate, identify and manage project risks, issues, assumptions and decisions; escalate in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Prepare twice-monthly project status reports for each assigned project.
• Meet regularly with project team(s), business sponsors/stakeholders, portfolio manager(s), and other key stakeholders.
• Facilitate the completion, approval and storage of project artifacts including approval documents.
• Ensure compliance with project management governance standards.
• Develop project charter, communication plan, risk management plan, responsibility matrix, resource plan, roles, responsibilities and project reporting structure. Set frequency and type of interactions, extent of involvement of stakeholders, and the process to resolve disputes.
• Assist in maturing and improving the PMO practice by providing support and feedback.
• Initiate and ensure project management and methodologies are followed and change management procedures and supporting tools are used in executing all projects as appropriate.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of current project management experience delivering IT projects with a minimum budget of $150K.
• Experience in the successful delivery of IT projects from start to finish.
• Familiar with or has used effort-driven project planning techniques in MS Project.
• Demonstrates high levels of capability in all project management competencies, including: planning, executing, monitoring and controlling of IT projects.
• Active PMP certification, preferably from Project Management Institute.
• Experience managing development projects in financial services or insurance companies is required.
• Commercial Property and Casualty Insurance is required.
• Experience managing vendors, requesting and executing SOWs.
• Demonstrate a personal sense of urgency to complete day-to-day work. Must drive results from self and project team members. Must know when to push back on perceived limitations and when to be flexible and accept the limitation.
• Exercise strong leadership capabilities; present "executive presence" especially when delivering difficult messages to stakeholders and leaders; calm and collected under pressure; take accountability for entire project and outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong customer focus; is responsive, consultative, collaborative and accurate in work approach. Consider project impacts and outcomes from the business (customer's) perspective.
• Experience in directly managing and forecasting project financials (reconciling invoices, timekeeping, etc.).
• Ability to create clear, concise messaging to all organizational levels.
• Exercise sound judgment, making informed, successful decisions from a set of complex options.
• Willing to develop technical understanding of the systems involved and ability to understand data flow and the high-level technical architecture.
• Ability to learn project management and financial planning tools as required.