Project Manager, Sr (Finance)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Combined Insurance, a Chubb Company, is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our fast-paced, high energy, growing company for nearly 100 years in the insurance industry, our company has been passionate about serving our customers and providing them peace of mind and protection when they need it the most. Come build your career here, along with other positive, hard-working, talented professionals-just like you!
Job Summary
The Senior Project Manager position will be focused on leading the successful planning, execution and delivery of complex projects, often managing multiple teams and large budgets, requiring strong leadership skills to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the desired quality.
As Senior Project Manager, this individual will be responsible for leading and overseeing multiple complex projects using Agile methodologies, ensuring successful delivery within budget and timeline by coaching teams, facilitating Agile ceremonies, managing risks, and collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize and deliver high-value increments throughout the project lifecycle, while actively promoting continuous improvement and adapting to changing requirements within the team and organization; often requiring extensive experience with Agile frameworks like Scrum/SAFe and strong communication skills to guide teams towards optimal performance.
Responsibilities
- Team leadership: Assemble and manage cross-functional project teams, assigning tasks, providing guidance, and motivating members to achieve project milestones.
- Project Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, manage project scope, prioritize backlog items, and track progress against key metrics to ensure timely delivery.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and technical leads to gather requirements, manage expectations. Communicate project status updates effectively to senior management, business owners, and technical teams, managing expectations and addressing concerns.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify potential project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and proactively address issues to minimize impact on project success throughout the project lifecycle.
- Metrics and Reporting: Monitor project performance using Agile metrics like velocity, burndown charts, and other relevant KPIs to identify areas for improvement. Generate comprehensive project reports, including status updates, key metrics and performance insights.
- Impediment Removal: Actively identify and resolve roadblocks that hinder team progress, escalating issues to relevant parties when necessary
- Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement by analyzing project data, identifying opportunities for optimization, and implementing best practices across teams.
- Budget Control: Monitor project progress against budget, identifying variances and taking corrective actions to ensure project remains on track.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards through rigorous testing and quality checks
- Reporting and Analysis: Generate comprehensive project reports, including status updates, key metrics and performance insights
- Agile Leadership: Facilitate Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning, ensuring teams adhere to Agile principles and practices.
- Team Coaching: Mentor and coach cross-functional teams on Agile methodologies, self-organization, and continuous improvement to maximize team performance.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Business, Information Systems or equivalent work experience
- PMP Certification preferred
- Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and tools. Scrum Master / SAFe Certification preferred
- 7-10+ years of Project Management experience
- Proven experience managing large, complex projects in a dynamic development environment. Relevant experience in Insurance industry helpful.
- Proficiency in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Jira)
- Strong leadership, consultative, team building and influencing skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to identify and address project challenges
- Expertise in understanding and communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Ability to identify, understand and communicate business needs for technical projects
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis, problem solving, and troubleshooting capabilities
- Out of the box thinker who can take a step back and find alternative solutions
ABOUT US
OUR BENEFITS
As a Chubb corporate employee, you have access to one of the most comprehensive benefit plans in the business, designed to meet your needs and help you reach your financial goals. More details can be found here. Chubb is committed to supporting its employees with a comprehensive compensation package that is appropriate in the market where they work. Below are several of the many benefits we offer our employees:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- A company-match 401(k) plan
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee referral bonuses
ABOUT COMBINED INSURANCE
Combined Insurance Company of America is a Chubb company and a leading provider of supplemental accident, health, disability, and life insurance products in North America. Headquartered in Chicago, with satellite office in Columbia, SC, Combined is celebrating over 100 years in business. We are committed to making the world of supplemental insurance easy to access and understand. The company has an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau and an A + (Superior) financial strength rating by A.M. Best. We are ranked by VIQTORY as the number one Military Friendly® Employer in 2023 (over $1 billion revenue category), marking Combined's twelfth consecutive year on the Top 10 list. We pride ourselves on approaching all situations with a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) and encouraging collaboration.
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.
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