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Project Manager
Ameritas Life Insurance Corp
Lincoln, NE, United States
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Ameritas Life Insurance Corp is seeking a Project Managerto drive the business by applying in-depth knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, as well as IT and/or business background, to effectively and successfully manage moderate to large projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors and communicates progress, relying on experience and judgment to accomplish plan and goals. Manage multiple projects at any given time.
Essential Job Functions
Scope of project manager is focused on program and project management within the division and/or corporation.
Project Management Competencies:
Project Integration Management
• Work with sponsor and subject matter experts to clearly identify project objectives, assumptions, and constraints; aware of strategic alignment of assigned projects
• Work with other project managers or experts, identifies interface points with other projects in the portfolio.
• Has responsibility for all aspects of the project over the entire lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, close).
• Utilize project management tools to manage the project, e.g. Microsoft Project, etc
Project Scope Management
• Develop project charter to formally document high level project scope, deliverables, approach, project organization, budget, resource plan, business benefits, benefit measurements, and critical success factors
• Use charter as documentation of the agreement between the project team and customers or other stakeholders by focusing on key project deliverables and objectives.
• Conduct meetings in accordance to plans.
• Establish review/approval process for project deliverables
• Can evaluate the degree to which changes would affect the project scope, and evaluate alternatives to scope modifications.
• Implement approved changes, manage related work tasks, and integrate approve scope changes into other control processes
• Identify causes of variances in project scope and documents lessons learned with regard to scope
Project Time Management
• Identify customer expectations with regards to timing of delivery, major milestones, and any schedule and delivery constraints
• Determine the relationships between project activities and dependencies for activity sequencing
• Produce a baseline project schedule and implements mechanisms to measure, record and report progress of activities in relation to the agreed schedule and plans.
Project Cost Management
• Develop cost benefit analysis and identifies budget constraints
• Identify physical resources available to the project, including contracted resources
• Identify staff requirements through a process of defining the skill types, training needs, and required timeframes
• Implement, monitors, and modifies agreed actions to maintain financial and overall project objectives throughout the project life cycle
• Determine modifications needed to estimates for completion.
Project Quality Management
• Plan and execute project quality control, assurance, and improvement processes
• Identify and implement actions needed to increase project effectiveness and efficiency
• With assistance, perform inspections, reviews, and walkthroughs to ensure that items are properly documented as accepted, rejected, or identified for rework.
Project Human Resources Management
• Develop an organizational chart for project work
• Communicate designated staff responsibilities and performance measurement criteria to ensure clarity of understanding of the work
• Manage project team, driving motivation, collaboration and performance. Assesses performance for feedback to managers
• Facilitate collaboration among many stakeholders of diverse interests, sometimes in conflict
• Implement rewards/recognitions and programs that enhance team performance
Project Communications Management
• Develop and execute a project communication plan, ensures communication of key performance indicators to a variety of audiences, e.g. team, stakeholders
• Establish project status reporting process and cycle
• Generate and disseminate project status, progress, and forecast reports to appropriate stakeholders, e.g. variance, trend, earned value etc.
Project Risk Management
• Identify and prioritize potential project risk events, the probability of those events, and the impact of those events
• Develop and execute mitigation plans for those identified risks and continues to monitor and communicate any changes to the risk management plan
• Interpersonal Skills
• Operate with intensity to achieve project goals
• Measure projects in an ordered, accurate way
• Strive to understand all project stakeholders thoughts, feelings, and concerns
• Listen and responds to others
• Effectively carry out duties and responsibilities in a professional manner
• Adapt to changes in project environment to minimize adverse project impacts
• Enable high performance
• Able to adjust to changes in plans easily and well
• Able to effectively lead meetings
• Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills as well as ability to work effectively with associates at all levels of the organization. Gain support and cooperation from people over whom they have no direct authority or control, including external vendors
• Lead by example by operating in a mode that reflects teamwork, open-mindedness, respect and focus on the overall goals of the enterprise.
Portfolio Management Competencies
• Assist in execution of application portfolio program, including a delivery plan.
• Ensure that decisions within management of portfolio are guided by policies, procedures and priorities established by Executive team
• Adjust a delivery plan with agreement and commitment from all stakeholders.
• Help identify dependencies, constraints, issues, and conflicts in the plan in coordination with other teams, units, and the business divisions.
• Assist in identifying various alternatives as solutions to the dependencies, constraints, issues, and conflicts for negotiation with the sponsors and stakeholders in changing previously agreed timeframes, scopes, or resource commitments.
• Ensure execution of the delivery plan as agreed, within the context of the long term vision and technology direction in partnership with the appropriate architects.
Requirements
• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years business and/or systems analysis experience, preferably in the financial services industry.
• Minimum of 3 years experience leading moderate to large projects, using and established project management methodology.
• PMP designation preferred or must demonstrate progress toward attaining skills and knowledge obtained from PMP designation
• Building high level knowledge of the insurance industry, our company's business, project management practices and project management methodologies
• Travel as needed by project. Estimated at less than 50%
• Expected to work extended hours as project plans or critical milestones may demand.
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