IT - Project Manager - Mastery

Job Title: IT - Project Manager - Mastery

Job Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Springfield or Boston, MA (Hybrid)

Duties:

Responsibilities:

· Leads the comprehensive delivery of face-paced project initiatives while effectively managing a matrixed team comprised of various disciplines.

· Oversees complex, long-term projects that involve multiple disciplines or business units.

· Collaborates independently and with management on high-visibility projects that span divisions and require complex coordination.

· Recognized as a critical resource for addressing unique or intricate technical and business challenges.

· Champions continuous improvement and efficiency initiatives beyond assigned responsibilities.

· Develops both short- and long-term project plans, establishing targets for milestones and ensuring adherence to deadlines.

· Collaborates with stakeholders, partners, and cross-functional teams to provide project support, resolve inquiries, assess needs, and recommend necessary changes; recognized as a key resource for solving unique or complex business issues.

· Facilitates effective decision-making within the team by presenting multiple options for project progression, utilizing the RAPID decision-making model.

· Communicates with executives and board members to ensure project alignment with organizational goals.

· Works closely with the team to adjust project schedules and targets in response to evolving project needs.

· Manages the comprehensive planning and implementation of projects, encompassing budgeting, forecasting, supplier collaboration, and project release planning.

· Maintains the ability to engage with all levels and facets of the organization.

· Demonstrates strong negotiation skills and conflict resolution capabilities.

· Coordinates and facilitates extensive program planning sessions, ensuring successful delivery by aligning cross-functional technical teams.

· Collaborates with fellow Project Managers, business leaders, technical experts, architects, developers, and vendors to ensure program strategy and execution are aligned.

· Drives initiatives to maintain alignment with the program roadmap while adhering to project schedules and budgets.

· Ability to operate independently on multiple project tasks and navigates complexities effectively.

· Selects, manages, develops, coaches, and motivates team members to achieve optimal performance.

· Coordinates technical integration across various workstreams.

· Supports and facilitates change management for existing and new processes.

· Assists in creating and providing high-level estimates for project planning purposes.

· Identifies and escalates risks and issues, serving as the primary point of contact for project/program escalations.

· Removes obstacles to empower the project team in achieving objectives and influences decision-making as needed.

· Assists developers in the overall delivery across systems, identifying gaps, problems, and dependencies among individual teams and systems.

· Identifies opportunities for improvement across teams and addresses these proactively.

· Facilitates program retrospectives and utilizes program metrics to support team development and tackle challenges.

Skills:

· 8+ years' experience in technical project management or IT lead delivery using industry-standard project management tools

· 5+ years directly managing large, high visibility, complex enterprise-level programs/projects are required.

· 5+ years of experience in a management, leadership, or similar leading role

· Significant technical or insurance industry background

· Experience with managing supplier delivery and supplier relationships

· Knowledge or experience with Mainframe / legacy systems delivery/implementation

· Ability to travel as needed to US vendor location (limited travel required)

· Outstanding written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

· Highly organization, collaborative individual

· Comfortable working in ambiguity, capable of establishing and growing functions and teams from the ground up

· An action-oriented, driven, entrepreneurial mindset

Education:

· Capable of leading technical teams to implement broad scope projects

· Skilled in problem solving and technical analysis

· Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

· Effective relationship building skills

· Ability to influence peers, leaders and business customers

· Collaborative team player focused on achieving personal accomplishments through making those around you successful

· Experience, or working knowledge, of Financial Service concepts and business data

· Experience working with Agile development processes and methodologies including Scrum and Kanban

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $ $85.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: In person