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

Highlights

• Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

Originally posted on Himalayas