Senior Project Manager 

NR Consulting is seeking a Senior Project Manager responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects. The role involves managing resources, coordinating team efforts, and ensuring projects align with company strategy and goals while utilizing Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Define, document and successfully complete complex application development projects (typically with significant business, political or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies)
• Adopt and adapt project management methods and tools, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches
• Ensure that effective project control, change control, risk management, design, development, and testing processes are maintained
• Monitor and control resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget, and manage expectations of all project stakeholders
• Align project objectives with company goals, and make sure the project team is clear on objectives
• Work with Solution Managers to staff initiatives with appropriate skill sets
• Communicate project status, progress, and issues effectively and appropriately, including periodic report creation and distribution
• Drive vendor selection activities, using the established RFP process. May be assigned Statement of Work (SOW) activities as appropriate
• Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables the team to excel at Agile development
• Manage sprint velocity-related metrics and goals
• Run scrum ceremonies, e.g., daily huddles, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives to actively manage risks and external dependencies
• On-Call and/or after-hours work required

Requirements:

• Expertise in project management methodologies and techniques with proven teamwork and influential skills, including Agile, Iterative, and Hybrid methodologies
• Practical experience managing complex projects/programs in application development, leveraging geographically dispersed teams in the life insurance industry
• Significant experience performing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Experience with life, annuity, and universal life (UL) products is required
• Skilled in developing a culture of teamwork and customer service, including facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, vendors, and other departments
• Experience managing projects with Ingenium Policy Administration system or any other major policy admin platforms will be a major plus
• Competency in Microsoft applications, including Visio, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook
• Experience and Agile tools such as Azure DevOps Boards, JIRA, Rally, etc
• Experience managing a policy admin platform transformation program/implementing a new policy admin product will be a HUGE plus
• BA or BS in Business, Project Management, Computer Science, or other business-related field
• 10 or more years of project management experience, including at least 5+ years working with Agile in Application Development
• Life Insurance Industry experience required
• PMP Certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certifications preferred