Project Manager with Insurance P and C

Overview

On Site
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Full Time
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

Preventive Maintenance
Performance Management
Customization
Insurance
Mobile Web
Robotic Process Automation
Computer Hardware
Resource Allocation
Scheduling
Microsoft Project Server
Accounting
Project Portfolio Management
Status Reports
Budget
Project Planning
Leadership
Customer Focus
Management
Forecasting
Invoices
Communication
Messaging
Decision-making
Data Flow
Project Management

Job Details

Role: Project Manager
Location Philly PA USA
PM with P&C background in Insurance
Full time $120K

Key Accountabilities
  • 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.
Core Competencies & 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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