Location:
Purchase, NY or Florham Park, NJ or Conshocken, PA
From Day 1 OnsiteClient :SOMPO
The IT Project Manager is responsible for managing IT projects on a day-to-day basis using the Project Management Life Cycle process and deliverables.
- 5+ years Project Management experience
- Expertise with all aspects of requirements and testing processes
- Detail-oriented and good analytical abilities
- Skilled in working across organizational boundaries, bringing together people with diverse perspectives and experience to find solutions
- Project Management for Application related projects; preferably Guidewire Claim Center experience and/or P&C Claims and Policy admin systems related experience.
- Develop and manage plans/schedules/deliverables for small to large sized projects
- Manage project timelines, activities, resources and budgets
- Provide regular status updates and Executive Status updates as needed
- Manage stakeholder expectations and negotiate with project stakeholders to determine most accurate and appropriate definition of project scope and schedule
- Work closely with technical resources and business analysts in the interpretation of requirements and the translation into design specifications
- Liaise between developers, architects, business analysts and QA analysts. Foster clear communication between the disciplines
- Ensure that projects comply with audit requirements
- Work closely with outsourced development vendors as needed
- Track performance against objectives and develop corrective strategies when objectives are not being met.
- Maintain relevant metrics to provide transparency on team performance
- Resolve conflicting priories in scope, schedule and cost for projects among various stakeholder groups
- Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
- Remove impediments by engaging the right personnel and/or finding the right solution
- Additional projects and assignments as needed
- Experience using PM tools (MS Project, SharePoint, VSTS, etc.)
Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus, but not required
