Senior Project Manager
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Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Hartford CT (Onsite)
Duration: Fulltime
Interview :: Video
Visa : USC/GC
LinkedIn: Required
Need Local Candidates
Need someone with min. 3 years of finance and of life & annuity industry experience
Job Description:
Portfolio Management Office (PMO.) This position supports critical business initiatives within our finance and actuarial organization. The selected candidate will handle the successful planning and execution of assigned projects. This Project Manager will be accountable for designing adopting and rolling out process improvements.
Detailed responsibilities include:
Project Management:
- Plan organize and control all activities associated with projects of various complexity.
- Provide recommendations for project resources (human financial tools etc.) required and coordinate team efforts to deliver projects according to planned scope timeline and budget.
- Lead and manage projects from initiation to successful delivery.
- Partner with sponsors to ensure project goals and objectives align with the organizations strategic direction and define project success criteria.
- Develop and maintain project plans that track the critical path dependencies key milestones and phase reviews of the full project lifecycle. Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Work with senior stakeholders to develop measurable business cases that clearly define the project benefits.
- Provide project management expertise and guide the team through change. Identify and proactively manage project risks and issues.
- Collaborate and manage relationships with stakeholders to influence outcomes.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope and devise contingency plans.
- Partner with project team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
Leadership:
- Aid in building an operating structure implementing a lean workflow and improving project / portfolio management discipline.
- Create materials for portfolio health reviews metrics/scorecards steering committee and roadmap planning.
- Facilitate portfolio meetings to remove blockers and advance project work and portfolio management discipline.
- Influence stakeholders from various functions and build strong partnerships to facilitate adoption of portfolio practices.
- Analyze data and develop recommendations.
- Partner with Portfolio Management team to develop continuous feedback mechanisms and improvements to operating structure tools and processes.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years of project management experience
- Prior experience with project management is required
- Experience in Financial Services and/or Life & Annuity industries preferred or a degree/background in Finance
- Handson experience with business transformation and / or business improvement initiatives a plus!
- Experience of different project management approaches (e.g. agile and waterfall)
- Demonstrated experience facilitating workshops and meetings.
- Experience partnering with senior clevel executives and cross functional stakeholders.
- Successful progression in delivery of projects with increasing complexity.
Employment Type
Full Time
