Senior Project Manager

Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of project management experience with demonstrated leadership
  • Experience with corporate planning processes and investment forecasting
  • Proficiency in Agile portfolio management tools and methodologies
  • Strong communication skills, capable of engaging with all management levels
  • Proven track record of supporting customer-oriented solutions
  • Ability to implement compliance measures and continuous improvement strategies

Responsibilities

  • Assist division leaders in data gathering for investment planning and forecasting
  • Facilitate portfolio sync meetings and track progress towards strategic goals
  • Implement controls to develop goals and performance indicators
  • Report on metrics related to strategic project portfolio health
  • Ensure compliance and audit readiness internally and externally
  • Collaborate with Ignite for continuous improvement initiatives
  • Develop standard business planning tools and methodologies for best practice compliance

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Competitive 401(k) contribution and pension plan
  • Annual incentive and 9 paid holidays annually
  • 23 days of paid time off accrued annually for full-time employees
  • Student loan repayment program and paid family leave available
  • Strong new employee orientation program to foster integration into the company
Full Job Description
You will provide high-level planning, project and portfolio leadership within a division or from a corporate oversight perspective. Controls project scope, resources (people and budget) and schedule. In some divisions provides leadership and facilitation for divisional planning or profit and growth planning processes. You will report to the Senior Manager of IT Delivery

Position Compensation Range:
$88,000.00 - $145,000.00

Pay Rate Type:
Salary

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities
• Assist business division and department leaders in identifying and gathering appropriate internal data to support the planning process including investment planning, prioritization, and forecasting.
• Facilitates portfolio sync meetings, and provide oversight for tracking, monitoring and reporting of progress towards strategic goals by agreement and reporting.
• Implements light-weight controls that ensure teams are developing goals and indicators. • Responsible for reporting metrics related to progress on strategic project portfolio and operationalizing the tracking and reporting of health and performance metrics of value.
• Maintain internal and external compliance and audit readiness.
• Maintains link to continuous improvement opportunities, and partners with Ignite for coaching and implementation
• Develops standardized business planning tools and methodology to support the planning process, and move us toward continuous improvement and best practice compliance.
• Define guardrails for event best practices.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills Requirements
• Demonstrated experience providing customer-oriented solutions or support.
• Demonstrated experience communicating with all levels of company management.
• Demonstrated experience executing large corporate programs involving multiple operational and technical areas across the organization.
• Solid knowledge of Agile portfolio management tools, methods and practices.
• Present information at all levels of the company, including executive leadership.

Travel Requirements • Up to 10%.

You will work 10 days per month from the office in this hybrid role. You should reside within approximately 35-50 miles of Madison, WI 53783

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Additional Information
  • To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.
  • Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
  • Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
  • Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting


We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

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