Project Manager - Life & Annuities

About the role

A US-based Project Manager with strong experience in Project Management, Software Engineering, and SDLC processes is needed to support Product Engineering Build - Insurance Software and BPS Key Objectives.

Responsibilities

• Apply people management skills to optimize SPOC requirements across the L&A teams, while supporting in managing other critical programs like Smart Apps, Woolworths, AI SDLC, and other growing workloads (10-25% of his time is currently spent on L&A Management alone)
• Attend U.S. daytime meetings for IPE and committed roadmap/Delivery projects to safeguard IPE/L&A team interests and serve as a strong U.S.-to-offshore interface
• Work hand-in-hand with offshore Portfolio Build Lead to streamline day-to-day communication (daily hand-offs), work issues, and ensure critical U.S. meeting outcomes (decisions and actions) are documented and promptly shared with the offshore team, closing communication gaps
• Serve as the liaison between the account teams, DXC project teams and Offshore teams, and possess strong interpersonal and negotiation skills to build a solid value proposition and create a conducive win-win situation
• Collaborate with multiple counterparts to deliver the release objectives; lead the release and facilitate adoption of value-added business solutions
• Establish seamless communication mechanism and networking conduit between DXC L&W Insurance Portfolio and Solution stakeholders encompassing multiple ARTs in diverse geographies, including DXC leadership and most importantly, a wide array of existing/potential customer pursuits backed by solid Lean Business Case, Benefit Hypothesis, etc.
• Pivotal stakeholder in the pre-PI and post-PI release meetings, stakeholder review meetings, monthly cadences with the Delivery and Sales Leadership counterparts, etc.
• Foster inter / intra ART conducive environment, discuss pain-points/risks, brainstorm mitigation plan/solutions and negotiate on timeline/schedule for the quarterly release(s) based on the committed DoD/WSJF
• Seamlessly support the product strategy, active engagement in determining the release milestones, whitepapers and checklist reviews, ensure seamless release deliveries to the customers
• Budgeting And Financials: Monitor the overall product release life-cycle, tracking NRVs, process review and compliance on various pre-determined release parameters (including budget/time/scope)
• Prepare detailed SoW, release Whitepaper approval discussions with the GTAT team and gain concurrence & approval from DXC-internal and external stakeholders regarding delivery aspects of the release
• Actively participate in the delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to the project management standards, exit criteria, matrices, Financial forecast (P&L) and other indices/parameters

Qualifications

• Strong People, Process, Release Execution / Life-cycle and Policy Administration System focus and understanding (preferably DXC IP products), and life insurance and annuity domain
• Seamlessly lead the overall product roadmap and work closely with the Director – Software Engineering, Portfolio Build Lead and an array of IPE counterparts
• Oversee the entire gamut of product development and modification life-cycle from inception through delivery phases for DXC proprietary insurance product
• Monitor the overall release life-cycle, project tracking & status reporting, process review and compliance on various pre-determined release parameters
• Staff projections, resource planning and scheduling for the release
• Manage both offshore and domestic project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives
• Release budgeting / Scope-of-Work (SoW) negotiations to actively participate in the roadmap and investment discussions
• Discuss with the Product Manager/Owner, and create project definitions, schedule and objectives for various features from small-to-large complexity
• Actively participate in the delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to the project management standards, procedures
• Timesheet reviews and approvals
• Performance reviews
• DXC Contracts understanding
• Billing and Invoicing
• Vendor Management and s/w licensing/procurement
• Finance Procedures and Tracking
• Budgets (Forecasts/Actuals), WBS owner, etc.

Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication and leadership skills
• Strong negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Ability to lead and work in a fast-paced SAFe® Agile model comprising of multiple teams & geographies involving time overlaps
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks seamlessly
• Willingness to travel, as required

Benefits

At DXC Technology, we offer a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current compensation range for this position is $105,500 - $195,900.

Schedule

Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program.