Senior Project Manager

Job title:

Senior Project Manager

Company

Munich Re

Job description

Munich Re is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insurance and digital solutions. New technologies are disrupting the insurance value chain. Our innovative minds in IT spearhead the transformation and make change happen. We support clients with a comprehensive range of insurance and risk management products. Our goal is to become even more digital through the expertise of our IT & Tech specialists, and by leveraging data and insights to support innovation and client service. We are therefore making targeted IT investments and helping our insurance clients and partners to tackle problems in the modern digital world with innovative and forward-looking solutions.As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for executing a diverse range of projects related specifically to North America Life & Health to support the transformation initiatives as demand dictates. You’ll have the responsibility to deliver results on time and budget, working with distributed teams across a range of IT disciplines including Architecture, Service Delivery, Application Teams and external service providers and vendors.Your Job

• Run and manage multiple complex projects and take responsibility for their delivery using formal project management techniques as appropriate

• Ensure proper governance to ensure projects are delivered on time, meet the business & technical requirements, and delivered within the agreed budget

• Have a control and understanding over resources. Projects will be resourced internally and utilize resources from our strategic vendor partners. May require third parties to be managed as part of the overall delivery

• Provide leadership for project resources by building and motivating the team to meet project goals, adhering to their assigned responsibilities and project milestones

• Produce a Charter for each project based upon the agreed scope, define the budget, identify the resources, create the schedule, outline the approach, and suggest the sequencing of work required to execute the project effectively

• Drive the delivery of their projects with predictable consistency, efficiency, and success, ensuring overall compliance with IT-internal requirements and smooth transition of the resulting solution into production

• Managing vendor relationships and the effective utilization of resources on each project, minimizing use of external onshore and offshore resources, and ensuring the timely onboarding and offboarding of those resources when tasks are completed

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and setting expectations with all stakeholders and act as the key point of contact for the project

• Identify issues/risks, analyze options, and manage impacts to mitigate project delays and take appropriate action to keep the project on track, leveraging support from key stakeholders and/or management as required

• Manage, monitor and report progress against milestones and budgets, ensuring consistent and transparent communications are provided to Management and Executive Leadership

• Ensure all project costs (actuals) are actively tracked and managed, including SOWs/Purchase Orders, contracts, internal resource assignments, and ensure accurate forecasts and accruals are maintained

• Coordinate the completion of all documentation, project plans, change requests, approvals, lifecycle steps and compliance gate requests in a timely manner to ensure the project continues to align with the agreed schedule

Your Profile

• University degree preferably in Computer engineering / IT, Business Administration, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences or similar qualification

• 6+ years of experience in delivering IT or digital projects preferably in Financial Services or a regulated industry.

• Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation

• Successful coordination of project deliverables based on an understanding of the customer needs

• Ability to manage project costs and budgets to agreed baselines

• Demonstrated personal organizational skills and ability to coordinate the efforts of others involved in the delivery of projects, including negotiating deadlines and commitments

• Demonstrated ability to work globally across businesses and international cultures to deliver results

• Preferably, you are already ITIL, Scrum or PMI certified or have the readiness to pursue one with our support

• Recognized as proactive and with high problem solving competence

What Can We Offer You?We are pleased to offer our employees great benefits and resources to support their mental, physical and financial wellbeing. These include:

• An engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development
• A hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days with Meeting-Free lunch hours and Focus Friday afternoons
• A great compensation package including annual company bonus
• Market leading company-paid flexible health and dental benefits, starting on your first day
• Flexible dollars provided by the company to put towards Health Spending Account and/or Wellness Spending Account
• Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with an automatic 5% employer contribution, plus optional company match
• Generous time off including vacation, personal days, unplanned time, Statutory Holidays and company-wide early closure half-days
• Learning and development programs and resources, including unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Education Assistance Program and reimbursement for professional fees
• Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up program
• Employee Referral Program, Recognition & Rewards Platform

About Munich ReTogether, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better.As the world’s leading reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations around the globe, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, we enable fundamental change. We recognize Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as a key priority with a culture that welcomes different thoughts and opinions. We dare to think big and are continuously innovating on behalf of our clients.Our data, our technology, and our teams place us in a unique position to drive transformative change in the life insurance industry. We invest strategically in our world class talent, offering our employees a work experience that promotes professional development, innovation, and rewards high performance.Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.Munich Re is committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of employment barriers and discrimination. Accommodations will be made for qualified applicants with a disability throughout the recruitment process. If you receive a request for an interview and you have a disability which will require an accommodation to support your participation, please contact [email protected] as soon as practical so that suitable accommodations can be arranged.

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:59:03 GMT

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