Project Manager with P&C Insurance Domain

Title: Project Manager with P&C Insurance Domain

Location: NJ- Onsite from Day 1

Duration: Long Term

Visa: Any Visa

MUST: Project Management, P&C Insurance domain & Guidewire product added advantage

Required Skills:

• 8+ years Project Management experience
• Expertise with all aspects of requirements and testing processes.
• Detail-oriented and good analytical abilities.
• Skilled in working across organizational boundaries, bringing together people with diverse perspectives and experience to find solutions.
• Project Management for Application related projects, preferably Guidewire Policy Center / Claim Center experience and/or P&C Claims and Policy admin systems related experience.
• Develop and manage plans/schedules/deliverables for small to large sized projects.
• Manage project timelines, activities, resources and budgets.
• Provide regular status updates and Executive Status updates as needed.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and negotiate with project stakeholders to determine most accurate and appropriate definition of project scope and schedule.
• Work closely with technical resources and business analysts in the interpretation of requirements and the translation into design specifications.
• Liaise between developers, architects, business analysts and QA analysts. Foster clear communication between the disciplines.
• Ensure that projects comply with audit requirements.
• Work closely with outsourced development vendors as needed.
• Track performance against objectives and develop corrective strategies when objectives are not being met.
• Maintain relevant metrics to provide transparency on team performance.
• Resolve conflicting priories in scope, schedule and cost for projects among various stakeholder groups.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
• Remove impediments by engaging the right personnel and/or finding the right solution.
• Additional projects and assignments as needed.
• Experience using PM tools (MS Project, SharePoint, VSTS, etc.).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus, but not required.