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Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

  • Remote
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • $100,000 - $110,000 per year
  • Information Technology

Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

Job description

  • Lead IT projects from initiation to completion. Projects may involve:

    • Implementation or customization of commercial off-the-shelf insurance applications

    • Mobile/web technologies

    • System integrations

    • Software upgrades

    • Intelligent Automation (RPA)

    • Infrastructure (hardware)

  • Manage 3 or more projects simultaneously depending on complexity, duration, and phase.

  • Lead a project team of matrixed resources, resolving challenges related to resource allocation and scheduling.

  • Build and maintain project schedules in MS Project/Project Server using effort-driven and auto-scheduled approaches.

  • Reconcile project team time cards against planned hours, investigate discrepancies, and adjust project tasks to maintain accurate forecasts.

  • Track and reconcile project financials in accounting tools; resolve variances between forecast and actuals, release excess funds when not needed, or request additional funding when baseline changes occur.

  • Ensure strict adherence to all Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) processes, procedures, and templates.

  • Identify, anticipate, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions; escalate appropriately and in a timely manner.

  • Prepare and deliver twice-monthly project status reports.

  • Engage regularly with project teams, business sponsors, stakeholders, portfolio managers, and other key stakeholders.

Job requirements

Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

  • 5–7+ years of recent project management experience delivering IT projects with budgets of at least $150K.

  • Proven record of delivering IT projects from start to finish.

  • Familiarity with effort-driven project planning in MS Project.

  • Strong skills in project management disciplines: planning, execution, monitoring, and control.

  • Experience managing vendors, creating and executing Statements of Work (SOWs).

  • Strong sense of urgency; ability to drive results from self and project team members.

  • Balanced judgment—knows when to push back and when to adapt.

  • Demonstrated leadership and “executive presence,” particularly in managing stakeholders and delivering challenging messages under pressure.

  • Strong customer focus; collaborative, responsive, and accurate in work approach.

  • Experience managing and forecasting project financials (invoices, timekeeping, etc.).

  • Excellent communication skills with ability to deliver clear, concise messaging to all organizational levels.

  • Sound judgment in decision-making, with ability to navigate complex options.

  • Willingness to develop technical understanding of systems, data flows, and high-level architecture.

  • Openness to learning and adopting new project management tools

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