Insurance Senior Project Manager, Enterprise Project Mgmt Office

About the role

EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants is a fast-growing firm in the insurance industry, headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2007, the company has over 4,000 employees nationwide, with offices in Summit NJ, New York City, Needham MA, and remote locations across the Eastern Time Zone US.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more complex enterprise, cross-functional initiatives from intake through stabilization and value realization
• Develop and maintain decision-ready delivery plans spanning scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, resourcing, and readiness checkpoints
• Independently manage interdependencies across initiatives, vendors, and operational teams
• Facilitate structured forums, governance reviews, and decision checkpoints to maintain momentum and alignment
• Proactively surface delivery risks, tradeoffs, and resource constraints with recommended paths forward
• Partner with Business Owners to clarify success criteria, adoption expectations, and readiness requirements
• Ensure appropriate business representation and engagement throughout delivery
• Reinforce that the business owns: process design decisions, adoption and change readiness, post-go-live benefit realization
• Coach stakeholders on enterprise delivery expectations and governance standards
• Ensure initiatives entering the ePMO pipeline are complete, well-formed, and decision-ready
• Support standardized intake, scoring, prioritization, and funding workflows
• Maintain high-quality, executive-ready artifacts including: charters and scope summaries, status and health reporting, risk, issue, and dependency tracking, options, tradeoffs, and decision support materials
• Lead or support quarterly portfolio and governance reviews with clear, concise reporting and recommendations
• Embed change management considerations into delivery from day one
• Partner with business teams and enablement resources to ensure stakeholder readiness, training and communications planning, and complete operational handoffs
• Lead business readiness checkpoints prior to go-live and reinforce accountability for adoption
• Define adoption and success measures and validate progress post-implementation
• Partner with Finance and Business Owners to ensure success metrics are defined, measurable, and tracked
• Track post-go-live outcomes against agreed-upon objectives and expected benefits
• Facilitate retrospectives focused on what improved enterprise capability and value, not just what shipped
• Contribute to the evolution of ePMO standards, templates, tooling, and best practices
• Promote responsible and practical use of AI and automation to improve delivery efficiency
• Identify opportunities where AI can support reporting, analysis, or intake quality
• Share emerging best practices to improve PMO maturity and decision support

Requirements

• Strong project and change management skills and experience
• Strong reporting & technically skills
• AI tools (CoPilot) and SmartSheets experience a plus
• Insurance industry experience - preferably P&C experience
• Candidates who adapt well to priority changes, deadlines, and who love problem solving and coming up with solutions and answers to client questions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or related discipline
• 7+ years of experience leading enterprise, cross-functional initiatives with significant dependencies and stakeholder coordination
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently, manage risks and tradeoffs, and escalate with clear options and recommendations
• Demonstrated experience in governance, executive-ready reporting, business readiness, adoption planning, and value realization tracking
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, influence, and systems-thinking skills

Skills

• Enterprise-first mindset
• 2-in-the-box delivery model
• Governance-forward
• Decision support, not decision making
• Adoption matters
• Value Realization & Continuous Improvement
• AI Enablement & Modern Ways of Working

Benefits

The national average salary for this role is $130,000 - $170,000 in base pay and exclusive of any bonuses or benefits. The base pay offered will be determined based on your experience, skills, training, certifications and education, while also considering internal equity and market data.

Pay

The national average salary for this role is $130,000 - $170,000 in base pay and exclusive of any bonuses or benefits. The base pay offered will be determined based on your experience, skills, training, certifications and education, while also considering internal equity and market data.

Schedule

Hiring team is open to fully remote elsewhere for well-qualified candidates. Location: Hybrid (3 days per week in-office) is preferred in one of the following offices: Summit NJ; New York City; Needham MA, or remote anywhere in the Eastern Time Zone US.