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Role Description

This role involves establishing and managing enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives and directly managing all aspects of the SDLC for large and complex IT and business projects.

• Partner with architects to ensure alignment
• Directly manage all aspects of the application development project lifecycle
• Analyze current business processes to identify inefficiencies
• Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within the agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
• Create realistic project and quality plans that include project interdependencies
• Analyze, diagnose, design, plan, execute, and evaluate work to time, cost, and quality targets
• Estimate costs, time, and resource requirements
• Track all activities against the project plan, monitor budget, schedule, and resources used
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement
• Identify, assess, and manage risk to the success of the project
• Identify, assess, and manage issues and escalate them to mitigate impact to overall project viability
• Provide regular and accurate status reports to project sponsor, project executives, and senior management
• Participate in procurement management, including contract negotiations and wording
• Motivate team members and provide individual performance data to resource managers for associate development and reviews
• Operate phase containment by ensuring all deliverables for the phase are produced and meet agreed upon quality criteria
• Collaborate with other managers within the business units to manage expectations
• Assist in recovery of challenged projects

All associates are expected to appear on camera during virtual meetings to maintain connection and effective communication.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of recent IT project management experience, including software development and management of large, strategic initiatives
• Ability to quickly earn the trust of others, set direction, resolve conflicts, and deliver difficult messages with grace
• Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision, both written and verbally
• Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Intermediate level of Microsoft® Office experience
• Sound business and technical acumen

Requirements

• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively
• Maintaining a high sense of urgency and operating with a passion to succeed
• Providing excellent customer service
• Negotiating and influencing

Preferred

• Familiar with managing insurance industry system and software development/integration projects (highly preferred)
• Experience in LEAN, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies
• Agile project management experience
• Proficiency in data analysis and process mapping tools
• SharePoint experience
• Experience managing iterative projects

Benefits

Your commitment to providing strong service and creating solutions that impact lives is appreciated. We offer a variety of benefits and amenities to increase the well-being and satisfaction of our associates.

Company Description

As a relationship-based organization, we welcome and value a diverse workforce. We provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, creed, color, sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity and transgender status, religion, national origin, age, disability, military service, veteran status, pregnancy, AIDS/HIV or genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law.