Senior IT Project Manager

Primarily responsible for serving on a team of professionals dedicated to leading and managing significant, strategic, corporate projects for the Enterprise. Provides project management expertise, methodology, and coordination to identify, plan and implement business and information technology projects more effectively. Accountable for leading project teams and managing all aspects of project implementations including selection, planning, management, control, closeout, and the success of project implementation. Exercises broad discretion and judgment in ensuring successful implementation of corporate products and services. Responsible for large initiatives and program epics.

• Directly manages the core corporate projects that lead to the implementation of the corporate strategy. This includes managing people, budgets, and resources, planning, problem solving, risk and issue management, communications, reporting, vendor management, implementation, and project closeout.
• Responsible for helping develop project or program cost benefit analyses.
• Collaborates with Finance and Actuarial Services to build a Benefit Realization plan.
• Manages programs through team collaboration and weekly core team meetings.
• Publishes weekly status reports and updates the project dashboard on a periodic basis.
• Presents the project updates as necessary to the executive team.
• Prepares communication strategies that are clear, concise, and timely.
• Responsible for leading and ensuring the successful completion of projects.
• Participates in the maturity of PMO and its continuous improvement.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism.
• Leads the largest and most complex IT projects in the portfolio.
• Performs reviews by individually assessing the health of a project. Reviews findings so that the most important problem areas, as well as most noteworthy areas of strength, are clearly identified.
• Turns troubled projects around.
• Supports PMO continuous improvement efforts.
• Learns agile project management methodology and adopts risk-based approach to implement.
• Helps with the administration of the Enterprise PPM solution.
• Supports portfolio management and the intake and governance process.
• Mentors teams with resource allocation, project prioritization, plan development and analysis, risk, scope, and budget management.
• Works directly with executive sponsors, corporate leaders, and project teams to ensure successful project completions.
• Maintains relevant procedures and directions. This includes, but is not limited to handbooks, manuals, tools, and templates.
• Actively contributes to the management of the corporate portfolio of projects.
• Participates in developing department goals, objectives, and systems.