Corporate Project Manager

About the Role

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, execution, control, reporting, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company and department strategy, commitments, and goals. Work collaboratively with upper management, department heads, and project team members to ensure that the scope and direction of each assigned initiative is on schedule and meets expected deliverables and budget.

Administer Church Mutual's project management methodology, processes, tools, and artifacts to support successful project completion.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and support to project teams by facilitating and participating in meetings with involved departments and resources to establish and direct project progression and evaluation.
• Facilitate initial and ongoing communication between department heads, project team members, and stakeholders to promote successful goal accomplishment and identify issues or risks that may become barriers to success.
• Assist project team members in resolving issues and perform risk management activities to identify project opportunities and hurdles.
• Assist in defining and refining project requirements and outlining project development and implementation approaches.
• Work closely with project stakeholders and resources to develop multifunctional project management plans, including project scope, tasks, deliverables, resources, timelines, budgets, and evaluation metrics.
• Act as a liaison between project sponsors and stakeholders, assisting them to manage financial, human, and technical resources required to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Manage project resource allocations, schedule, and budget. Identify resources needed, work with department heads to procure resources, assign responsibilities, and ensure proper utilization.
• Utilize project management software to provide meaningful status reporting, resource utilization, task completion, and budget information to corporate and department management.
• Manage, monitor, and report on projects by tracking progress against agreed scope, milestones, and deadlines.
• Adhere to change control procedures and record required justification and resulting decisions.
• Work with stakeholders and IT project team members to ensure technical solutions are sound and meet operational requirements.
• Champion project management skills and processes by utilizing approved methodology, standards, procedures, and techniques, and train project team members in their value and use.

Requirements

• Three to five years' experience in project management or four to six years of related experience as a project team member, of which at least two years have been in a leadership position.
• Experience with project management software desired.
• Experience with the system development life cycle is desired.
• Management of multi-department level projects is a plus.
• Additional experience in one or more of the following areas preferred:
  • Project development and project implementation (especially in the insurance industry).
  • Professional IT project management experience.
  • Work in business process improvement and related change management and staff development.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Major in organization development, business, IT, project, and/or production management preferred.
• Project management certificate or designation is preferred.

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to properly communicate to all levels of the organization.
• Ability to learn the property and casualty insurance industry and its products, services, and operational models.
• Demonstrated experience in project management methodology, best practices, and tools.
• Demonstrated and refined interpersonal skills.
• Organized, analytical, and self-motivated.
• Average-to-advanced computer skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Sound judgment, dependable, and reliable.
• Customer-focused.
• Strong negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
• Ability to manage people without direct authority to complete project initiatives.
• Ability to provide coaching and mentoring to others on the importance of project management.
• Maintain confidentiality of project information.