Senior Project Manager

4 weeks ago

Kansas City, United States Americo Life Full time
Senior Project Manager

Job Summary

This position plays the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for the entire project scope, project team, resources and doing all that is necessary to ensure the success of each project. They will perform this role utilizing critial thinking skills obtained through many years of project management.

Essential Responsibilities
  • Develops project work plan and assigns tasks and responsibilities for all project related activities. This includes all design, development, testing, training, implementation, and on-going support activities for IT, Business Operations, and any third-parties or vendors necessary for successful project implementation.
  • Apply project methodology and enforce standards.
  • Communicate process changes, enhancements, project status and modifications - verbally or through written documentation - to management, peers, staff, vendors and other associates so that issues and solutions are understood and addressed
  • Analyze project requirements to determine tasks and resource needs and work to fulfill these needs
  • Work with PMO team to seek opportunities to continuously improve PMO best practices, communication and deliverables
  • Ability to plan, organize, and manage multiple projects
  • Determine the appropriate sequence of tasks and activities for a work package
  • Prioritize which issues deserve immediate attention and have significant impact and allocating the needed resources
  • Contact other associates, departments, or suppliers to coordinate planning, installation, troubleshooting, problem resolution, and deployment.
  • Decide when a new work item or change request is outside of the approved project scope
  • Decide when a particular task is behind schedule or inadequately resourced
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Strong knowledge of insurance business processes
  • Strong knowledge project management techniques, including waterfall and agile processes
  • Knowledge of PPM Pro, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and MS Project
  • Strong knowledge of project management techniques
  • Strong knowledge of the interaction and interdependencies of hardware. Software and systems development life cycle methodology.
  • Strong application specific knowledge (MS Project, MS Office, Internet, PowerPoint, ServiceNow, Teams, Webex,
  • Strong knowledge of Agile application software design and development
  • Strong knowledge of the interaction and interdependencies of hardware. Software and systems development life cycle methodology.
  • Outstanding problem identification/troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to assess the business impact of issues and prioritize them
  • Very good interpersonal skills (coaching, teamwork, etc.)
  • Ability to quickly assimilate new technologies and information
  • Ability to manage concurrent complex projects
Education
  • Four year college education
Americo: We're in this for life

The roots of the Americo family of companies date back more than 100 years. Americo is a Life Insurance, Medicare Supplement Insurance, and Annuity company providing innovative products to our customers. At Americo, it's the people who make things work, so we hope you join us

For more information about our company, please visit www.americo.com.

What you'll love about working at Americo:
  • We offer a comprehensive paid training program that will make you feel prepared and excited about your role.
  • We place true value in work/life balance. We offer generous Paid Time Off and Company Paid Holidays to all associates.
  • Health and Well-Being: We are proud to offer subsidies to support your health and fitness goals by providing gym membership subsidies
  • Prepare for your Future: Americo offers a 401(k) with a company match
  • Opportunities to Give Back We support several local organizations like Ronald McDonald House, Hope Lodge, American Red Cross, Harvester's, and many more.
  • Company Culture and Team-building: Americo participates in Kansas City Corporate Challenge, hosts company-sponsored events, and bring ice cream and coffee trucks on-site to show our appreciation
  • We are conveniently located in Downtown Kansas City, within walking distance to top attractions and restaurants
  • As an associate, you will receive complimentary paid parking near our Americo offices

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