Sr. Project Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Facilitate the execution of medium to large scale projects by providing strategic direction to project team, fostering effective working relationships between team members, and taking appropriate action to optimize team performance.
• Effectively communicate at all levels of the project team - ensuring sponsors and key stakeholders are aware of status, risks & issues, critical dependencies, and impact of changes and key decisions.
• Build relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments.
• Identify, assess, and manage risk to the success of the project.
• Create and deliver presentations to project team and key stakeholders, communicating project status.
• Leverage problem solving and influencing skills to ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost and timeline and are approved by key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Collaborate with change management team on change management plans including communications, training, etc.

Requirements

Occasionally required to work late evening and weekends as needed. May travel up to 10% as needed.

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• PMP or PgMP certification a plus.

Work Experience

• 5+ years plus of project/program management experience.

Knowledge and Skill Sets

• Excellent organizational, analytical, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong customer focus.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Experience working in an environment that leverages Agile principles to organize and drive work.
• Clear results orientation.
• Extensive knowledge of project management methodology.
• Experience with Microsoft Suite of Products - Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project.

Pay

Who we are: Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world. We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better We enjoy the everyday | We think further What’s In It For You In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work. We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life. All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance. We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.

About the Role

The Sr. Project Manager has primary responsibility for the management of medium to large scale projects which often require larger project teams and/or cross functional teams or multiple non-related projects. The Sr. Project Manager will manage projects from original concept through final implementation/warranty, managing stakeholder involvement, customer satisfaction and customer impact throughout, using established governance standards and processes. The Sr. Project Manager will lead the project team to proactively identify risks and issues that could challenge project delivery and will ensure those risks and issues are mitigated or resolved. The Sr. Project Manager will establish the appropriate governance in line with Markel standards and track benefits throughout the project lifecycle. In this role, the Sr. Project Manager has the overall responsibility and accountability to drive projects to success as defined by the project sponsors and key stakeholders. This role will work with internal and external customers, third party vendors, governance, and senior management in accomplishing project objectives.