Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Assure that the project teams and senior leaders are leveraging best practices in the Project Management Framework (PMF) and in the integration of project management methods and tools
- Develop project charters with key stakeholders, with definitions including but not limited to high level business benefits, scope, budget, resource needs, timelines, impacts, risks and dependencies
- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop, control and manage project, resource and change management plans, risk registers, project archive and other tools and documentation to ensure successful, quality, on-time and on-budget project implementations in accordance with the Project Charter, industry standards and corporate policies
- Facilitate information sharing and gathering, clearly communicate project roles, delegate tasks as appropriate, and manage other project activities with business stakeholders, project team members, vendors, and others as appropriate
- Facilitate meeting agendas, document meeting minutes and follow ups, and manage completion of outstanding tasks and resolution of open items with project team members
- Ensure adherence to quality, approved scope and corporate policies. Ensure milestones and acceptance tasks are clearly identified, managed, and completed with / by appropriate stakeholders
- Monitor project performance against the project plan, timeline, budget, and scope. Escalate any project issues promptly, and identify and address needs for change control
- Effectively communicate with and report status to program managers, project sponsors, stakeholders and project team members.
Ensure required documentation is complete and approvals are achieved. Facilitate the change management plan
- Manage the closing process and retrospective when project is complete
- Maintain and develop professional, industry and technical knowledge
- Mentor and advise project team members and other stakeholders
- Assist in improving AmeriLife project management process, standards and documentation
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications :
- Bachelor's degree preferred; PMP Certification Required
- 7-10 years years experience in IT project / program management or business systems analysis
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Experience in managing multiple concurrent projects, project plans, resource allocation, and priorities
- Solid understanding of Project Management methodologies.
- Strong analytical and trouble shooting skills
- Excellent team building, planning and organizational skills
- Experience with tools similar to MS Office Suite including Project, Jira, ClickUp, SmartSheets and Visio
- Lean Six Sigma experience / certification preferred
- Insurance domain experience (Health, Life or Annuity) preferred
- Remote Eligible
22 days ago