Project Manager

Role Description:

Deep understanding of Insurance Domain, Identification of the system involvement with respect to new Requirement. Continuous coordination and clarification of requirements during development with the business units2. Effective communication with all the involved stakeholders in the Project and Administrating the overall project. Stakeholder management with relevant stakeholders. Coordinating with various team leads, domain specific leads and communicate their involvement in the requirement.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• leading large and complex projects mainly in financial/regulatory environments by facilitating communication, coordination, planning and execution across ERGO teams and business partners.
• planning and follow-up on assigned projects including time scheduling, cost planning, resource management, quality assurance etc.
• ensuring project roles and responsibilities are clear, and ensure alignment across all ERGO contributors
• collaborating with internal ERGO partners to troubleshoot project planning issues
• facilitating design, planning and implementation workshops with internal and external stakeholders
• managing proactively project risks and issues. developing effective mitigation/treatment plans
• managing project meetings, schedules, milestones and delivery
• preparing project correspondence and presentations, as needed, for status reports, executive updates, meetings, annual planning, etc
• setup and manage project governance structure according to ERGO IT Delivery framework
• implementation of a variety of programmes, project types as well as project phases incl. requirements elicitation or implementation of RFP / RFI phases
• working with SCRUM teams to measure the impact of projects and ensure scalable solutions within a growing company
• building and maintaining successful relationship with teams and business partners
• coaching of young project managers with regard to ERGO-wide IT project management procedures
• Some travel to our European locations of ERGO may be required

Key Competencies & Skills required

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of Project Management
• Has knowledge in all common MS-Office products, BMC, Confluence,; Azure board
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Excellent project planning, budget, scoping, costing and scheduling ability
• Ability to build and maintain business relationship with stakeholders
• Experience working with agile and classic project management methods

Nice to have:

• Certification in Project Management

Behavioral Skills:

• Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills relevant to the role.
• Willingness to learn and quickly adapt to changing requirements.
• Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions and options
• Ability to direct and guide teams as relevant

Soft Skills:

• Ability to work in a team
• Conflict resolving skills
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Resilience
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Communication and presentation skills

Previous Experience & Qualifications

Minimum Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science /Engineering/Information Technology

Certification if any:

• Certification in Project Management

Years Experience & Knowledge:

• Strong track record of delivering IT projects in a large, complex environment. (7+ years).
• Proven +8 years experience as a PM
• Experience in Project Management • Stakeholder management
• University or technical college degree with a focus on insurance, business informatics, computer science
• proven +8 years experience as a PM
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Excellent project planning, budget, scoping, costing and scheduling ability