Senior Project Manager

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience (enterprise wide, multimillion dollar, 12+ month long, end to end)
• Coming from a product background
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Experience with Microsoft project
• Agile & Waterfall experience

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Insurance industry background
• PMI or PMP certification
• Insurance related certifications
• Meisterplan Experience

Job Description

This Sr Project Manager will be a 6 month contract to hire supporting a Product team at a large financial organization in downtown Cincinnati. This team works with the business lines, Life Insurance and Annuities.

• Coordinates and completes day-to-day Enterprise-level projects using a combination of disciplines (process, change, business and technical).
• Manages a variety of large-scale, Enterprise-wide initiatives simultaneously while serving as the single point of contact for those initiatives.
• Leads/Coordinates all aspects of projects including planning/scheduling, scope management, communication issue/risk management, resource management, procurement/vendor management, project management, integration, financial management, change management and quality management through all portions of the project and development lifecycles such as ideation/conceptualization, rationalization/prioritization, requirements, design, build/configuration, testing, documentation, training, deployment, stabilization and closure.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities/tasks, and monitors and summarizes progress of their assigned projects.
• Ensures that project results meet requirements regarding quality, reliability, schedule and cost.
• Utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met; relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Must be familiar with the system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, in order to effectively coordinate the activities of the team.
• Submits Project Change Control Requests when revisions to scope, schedule and/or budget are required.
• Makes recommendations to Program Managers on program-related change requests.
• Prepares Project Status Reports and provides regular status updates to Program Managers, clients, and stakeholders. Acts as a liaison between the business customer and Project team(s) by building cooperative, constructive, effective relationships.