Senior IT Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager

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We are currently seeking a Senior IT Project Manager with Claims experience to fill one 3-month contract-to-hire position with a large Insurance client in the Cincinnati area. This is not a remote opportunity.

Senior IT Project Manager

The primary role of a Senior project manager is to establish and manage enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives and directly manage all aspects of the SDLC for large and complex IT and business projects. Insurance/Claims experience is required. Must have a robust project management experience (5+ years), and experience in Agile/Scrum.

This position is strictly right-to-hire to backfill a FTE turnover, working on an important capstone project for the organization.

Contract Rate: $43 - $72/hr

Salary Conversion: $90,000 - $150,000

If interested please email Brianna at and reference #1153680

Senior IT Project Manager
Description: The primary role of a Senior project manager is to establish and manage enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives and directly manage all aspects of the SDLC for large and complex IT and business projects.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with architects to ensure alignment
• Directly manages all aspects of the application development project lifecycle and works with matrix partners to oversee all phases of the project
• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed on time, cost and quality parameters
• Creates realistic project and quality plans that include project interdependencies
• Analyzes, diagnoses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets
• Estimates costs, time and resource requirements
• Tracks all activities against the project plan, monitors budget, schedule and resources used and takes action where deviation from agreed tolerances occurs
• Identifies, assesses and manages risk to the success of the project
• Identifies, assesses and manages issues and escalates them so that they do not impact project viability
• Provides regular and accurate status reports to project sponsor, project executives and senior management
• Participates in procurement management, including contract negotiations and wording
• Motivates team members and provides individual performance data to resource managers for associate reviews
• Operates phase containment by ensuring all deliverables for the phase are produced and meet agreed quality criteria, and lessons learned are gathered and documented
• Collaborates with other managers within the business units to manage expectations
• Assists in recovery of challenged projects

Required:

• Experience managing and working with Integration Partners on the implementation of a large-scale claims system
• Recent experience collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching Scrum teams
• Five or more years of recent project management experience, including the management of large and strategic initiatives
• The ability to quickly earn the trust of others, set direction and approach, resolve conflicts, deliver difficult messages with grace and act with limited information and ambiguity
• Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision, both written and verbally
• Communicating effectively through presentations and meeting facilitation
• Organizing, planning, and managing time
• Managing engagements with executive-level visibility and interaction
• Proven ability to manage large project efforts involving multiple business units and support organizations
• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects
• Maintaining a high sense of urgency and operating with a passion to succeed
• Providing excellent customer service
• Negotiating and influencing
• Problem solving and critical thinking
• An intermediate level of Microsoft® Office experience
• Sound business and technical acumen
• Experience with Microsoft Project

Desired Skills:

• Agile Project Management experience
• Familiar with managing insurance industry projects (highly preferred)
• Familiar with managing large multi-million-dollar projects involving more than 15 team members on efforts with significant business implications across multiple areas
• SharePoint experience
• Experience managing iterative projects
• Experience in LEAN, Six Sigma or other process improvement methodologies
• Project Management Professional Certification
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience.

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