We are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager with 8+ years of experience delivering technology programs, with strong insurance domain experience. The ideal candidate will be a proactive, action-oriented project leader who can manage multiple workstreams, drive governance, remove blockers, and ensure successful delivery across business, product, engineering, QA, and vendor teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the integrated delivery plan, including milestones, dependencies, sprint/release calendars, and key deliverables.
- Lead delivery governance activities, including workstream meetings, RAID management, action/decision tracking, and release readiness.
- Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies, including mitigation plans and escalations.
- Coordinate execution across product, business, engineering, QA, environment, and release teams.
- Manage scope alignment and change control, assessing impacts to timelines, costs, and deliverables.
- Prepare executive-level status reports covering milestones, KPIs, risks, forward-looking activities, and support needs.
- Facilitate stakeholder communications and drive timely decisions to prevent delivery delays.
- Support cutover and go-live planning, including readiness checklists, runbooks, and go/no-go activities.
- Manage cross-functional teams, including vendor and onshore/offshore resources.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of project management experience delivering technology programs.
- Insurance domain experience is required.
- Strong understanding of insurance products, processes, and operations.
- Proven experience managing multiple workstreams and cross-functional teams.
- Experience working with vendor and onshore/offshore teams.
- Strong knowledge of project governance, including RAID logs, action/decision tracking, and dependency management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to create concise, leadership-ready status reports.
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Ability to work independently and effectively manage ambiguity and changing priorities.