IT - Project Manager II (Remote)

The Cincinnati Insurance Companies is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to join their team. The role involves managing enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives and overseeing all aspects of the software development lifecycle for large and complex IT and business projects.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with architects to ensure alignment
• Directly manage all aspects of the application development project lifecycle and work with leadership partners to oversee all phases of the project
• Analyze current business processes to identify inefficiencies
• Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within the agreed upon time, cost and quality parameters
• Create realistic project and quality plans that include project interdependencies
• Analyze, diagnose, design, plan, execute and evaluate work to time, cost and quality targets
• Estimate costs, time and resource requirements
• Track all activities against the project plan, monitor budget, schedule and resources used and take action where deviation from agreed tolerances occurs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement
• Identify, assess and manage risk to the success of the project
• Identify, assess and manage issues and escalate them to mitigate impact to overall project viability
• Provide regular and accurate status reports to project sponsor, project executives and senior management
• Participate in procurement management, including contract negotiations and wording
• Motivate team members and provide individual performance data to resource managers for associate development and reviews
• Operate phase containment by ensuring all deliverables for the phase are produced and meet agreed upon quality criteria, and lessons learned are gathered and documented
• Collaborate with other managers within the business units to manage expectations
• Assist in recovery of challenged projects

Requirements:

• five or more years of recent IT project management experience, including software development as well as the management of large, strategic initiatives
• ability to quickly earn the trust of others, set direction and approach, resolve conflicts, deliver difficult messages with grace and act with limited information and ambiguity
• ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision, both written and verbally
• communicating effectively through presentations and meeting facilitation
• organizing, planning, and managing time
• managing engagements with executive-level visibility and interaction
• ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively
• proven ability to manage multiple projects
• maintaining a high sense of urgency and operating with a passion to succeed
• providing excellent customer service
• negotiating and influencing
• strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• intermediate level of Microsoft® Office experience
• sound business and technical acumen
• familiar with managing insurance industry system and software development/integration projects (highly preferred)
• experience in LEAN, Six Sigma or other process improvement methodologies
• agile project management experience
• proficiency in data analysis and process mapping tools
• familiar with managing large multi-million-dollar projects involving more than 15 team members on efforts with significant business implications across multiple areas
• SharePoint experience
• experience managing iterative projects
• qualified candidates have a bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience
• Project Management Professional Certification preferred