- Direct and monitor all activities for highly complex, high risk, strategic technology-based projects from initiation to delivery. Projects cross platforms, applications, and/or business lines. Understands how and when to escalate issues to higher levels. Analyzes the risks and future impact of decisions. Regularly makes decisions and takes timely, independent action on matters directly affecting project goals. Guides staff and other project managers in learning and applying useful decision-making approaches.
- Work significantly affects a very wide variety of teams and functional areas within company and corporation. Project visibility is typically at corporate company and/or company Senior Management level. Budget Impact: Significant. Timeline: Generally managing multi-year, multi-phased projects.
- Primarily assigned to projects that are highly complex. Typically assigned to large projects as defined by companys SDLC, with some small to medium projects. Projects may be creating new systems, utilizing new technology or existing technology in a new way, working with new or risky vendor(s) or utilizing inexperienced resources. Projects involve 3 or more core systems and relevant supporting systems.
- Deep knowledge of and significant experience utilizing a wide variety of Project Management concepts, principles, practices, procedures, and theories. Deep understanding of and experience with project management phases, techniques and tools. Thorough understanding and experience with common SDLCs. Very strong/proven project management skills, including sponsor and risk management. An outstanding record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology.
- Provide consistent and comprehensive status reports, project updates, and ongoing cost analyses, significant issue management/ resolution and communication, usually at the executive levels. Mentor technical project management staff and other project team members.
- Travel required: estimated to be 25-40% on an annualized basis. (travel will be a factor of where the employee is located relative to the sites of company and the operating companies engaged in a particular systems initiatives
- Minimum 10 years of increasingly responsible technology project management experience, with at least five years of managing increasingly complex projects in a technical environment. Strongly prefer an understanding of software development and the insurance industry, its community and its technology requirements. PMP certification highly recommended.
- Must have demonstrated the capability of meeting the key accountabilities, or have the ability to learn/perform them
- Software Development Life Cycle experience.
- Ability to thrive and produce results with little or no supervision in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to interact seamlessly at all levels with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Strong customer service focus and sense of urgency.
- Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and systems.
- Superior problem solving and analytical skills.
- Empathy (E)
- Openness to Others (E)
- Organizational Navigation (A)
- Written Expression (A)
- Fair Minded (A)
- Presentation skills (E)
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Senior Project Manager - Urbandale, United States - Berkley
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Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is the dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. With key locations in Urbandale, IA and Wilmington, DE, BTS provides innovative and customer-focused IT solutions to the majority of WRBCs 60+ operating units across the globe. BTSs wide reach ensures that ideas and opinions are considered at every level of the organization to guarantee we find the best solutions possible.
Driven by a commitment to collaboration, BTS acts as consultants to our customers and Operating Units by providing comprehensive solutions that not only address the challenge at hand, but proactively plan for the Whats Next in our industry and beyond.
With a culture centered on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, BTS stands as a community of technology leaders with eyes toward the future -- leaders who truly care about growing not only their team members, but themselves, and take pride in their employees who shine. BTS offers endless ways to get involved and have the chance to grow your career into a wide range of roles you'd never known existed. Come join us as we push forward into the future of industry leading technological solutions.
Berkley Technology Services: Right Team, Right Technology, Simple and Secure.
Responsibilities:The Senior Project Manager provides project management services to company and to the corporate operating companies including; working with key individuals/stakeholders within corporate operating companies to determine project critical success factors and ensuring that projects are structured so that critical business needs are met. Develops project plans, generates work breakdown structures, estimates task duration, determines resource requirements, identifies and tracks dependencies, assesses and mitigates risk, and manages project budgets. The candidate directs and coordinates activities of company and corporate operating company staff to ensure projects progress on schedule and within prescribed budget, establishes work plans and staffing for each phase of project, assists with arrangements for recruitment or assignment of project personnel, and develops and distributes project status reports. Develops and maintains strong working relationships with company, corporate operating companies, and vendor resources.
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The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.
