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.