Project Manager

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Contribute to build project methodology, and comply with AXA XL processes & standards.
• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and deliverables. Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures (WBS)
• Manage driving schedule, milestones, dependencies, and critical path. Monitor progress and adjust plans as needed. Manage scope, including change controls for projects.
• Report project status to stakeholders in appropriate format and at the relevant level of detail.
• Plan and coordinate resources across providers.
• Develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, and cost control. Track actuals vs. plan and report variances.
• Lead and facilitate meetings (kickoffs, status updates, steering committees, retrospectives); drive decision making and issue resolution. Manage project stakeholders expectations.
• Interface with Business, App Managers, Business Analysts and Tech Leads to ensure service requirements are clearly understood, milestones agreed-to, and that execution trends in a manner favorable to project success.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; maintain a risk register and implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Quality assurance: define acceptance criteria, coordinate testing/QA activities, and ensure delivery meets quality standards.
• Facilitate deployment, business and technical readiness, acceptance of the solution/change and enabling the business benefit realization.
• Managing vendor project engagements including participating in creation of SOW and ensuring proper invoice submission.
• Manages intra-project and cross-project deliverable dependency tracking.
• Developing project communication and team collaboration materials.

You will report to Change Delivery Lead.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Project management experience, with a track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning
• Performs tasks according to established procedures, with some ability to exercise discretion. Projects are of moderate size and complexity.
• Provides effective solutions to problems based on broad experience.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of business functions, including an understanding of various processes, procedures and systems required to carry out assignments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Certifications (preferred but not mandatory): PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner/Foundation, PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner), CAPM, or related Agile certifications (CSM, CSPO, SAFe certifications)