Product Project Manager

About the role

The Product Project Manager will manage and drive Product Delivery projects for Combined North America across functional and technology areas. This important role will guide and partner with individual leads to execute the delivery of new product designs, implementation, rollout, and supporting activities in accordance with project goals.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall, end-to-end project management, coordination, and delivery of assigned product projects.
• Leads cross-functional product project team ensuring dedication of resources, collaboration across the enterprise, timely delivery of project and project deliverables and successful product introductions into the field and across all departments and functions.
• Performs duties with a sense of urgency to ensure project goals are achieved.
• Partners with cross-functional areas such as actuarial, underwriting, IT, enrollment, operations, compliance, and marketing, to guide activities for product delivery and launch.
• Collaborates with IT Project Manager to lead system implementation of product projects.
• Collaborates with project team members to develop project plans, timelines, anticipate needs, mitigate risks, and to ensure accurately, timely and successful delivery.
• Led activities required to maintain and complete all project documentation.
• Obtains appropriate level of approval for all project documentation assigned to ensure appropriate understanding of expectations among all stakeholders.
• Documents and communicates the status, risk and issues associated with each project component to the project team and leaders within the organization and leads the actions required (corrective or not) to ensure project outcomes are achieved.
• Partner with managers, staff, and vendors as necessary through meaningful working relationships.
• Develops an understanding of the company’s business processes, organization structure, and supporting technology.
• Mentors and trains staff in topics related to product project management.
• Maintains appropriate product project documentation on Product SharePoint site, or other applicable sites as necessary.
• Provides leadership, mentoring, coaching, and guidance on a continuous basis to project team members in the areas of project lifecycle, operating procedures, processes, and practices.
• Projects manages portfolio activity on specific products, such as regulatory changes third-party partners, and other necessary product updates.

Requirements

5+ years of Insurance industry experience preferred.
5+ years of project management experience preferred.
Current Agile, SCRUM, PMP and/or other project management accreditation is preferred.
Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Qualifications

Proactive mindset and approach.
Ability to quickly take action to drive results.
Action oriented bias.
Anticipates, analyzes, and acts.
Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, both oral and written.
Ability to build confidence, trust, and a positive, collaborative team environment.
Ability to gain buy-in and engagement. Develops positive relationship with key stakeholders, including strong rapport, candidness, transparency, and support for initiatives.
Ability to build team cohesiveness to achieve results.
Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
Strong listening and comprehension skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong planning, organization, and time management skills
Experience building and participating in teams.
High degree of fluency in Microsoft Office; strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.

Skills

• Proactive mindset and approach.
• Ability to quickly take action to drive results.
• Action oriented bias.
• Anticipates, analyzes, and acts.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to build confidence, trust, and a positive, collaborative team environment.
• Ability to gain buy-in and engagement. Develops positive relationship with key stakeholders, including strong rapport, candidness, transparency, and support for initiatives.
• Ability to build team cohesiveness to achieve results.
• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
• Strong listening and comprehension skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Experience building and participating in teams.
• High degree of fluency in Microsoft Office; strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.

Benefits

Chubb offers a comprehensive benefits package, more details on which can be found on our careers website. The disclosed pay range for the role is $ 78,000 to $112,000. The specific offer will depend on an applicant’s skills and other factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.

Our benefits include:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• A company-match 401(k) plan
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee referral bonuses

About Chubb Benefits

Combined Insurance Company of America (Chubb Benefits) is a leading provider of supplemental accident, health, disability, and life insurance products in the U.S. and Canada. Headquartered in Chicago with a tradition of more than 100 years of success, we are committed to making the world of supplemental insurance easy to understand. The company has an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau and an A + (Superior) financial strength rating by AM Best.

ABOUT CHUBB

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.