Nationwide is a Fortune 100 company focused on delivering extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their future. The Project Manager plays a key role in driving business results by leading complex initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinates and prioritizes all aspects of projects, including: planning, communication, execution and completion
- Develops and controls timelines, including regularly re-assessing risks, throughout project life. Revises project plans on an ongoing basis to maintain alignment with other projects and the business strategy
- Coordinates business/systems unit resources to log issues, designs processes and implements solutions. Maintains awareness of customer and systems requirements and conforms to those requirements
- Responsible for internal and external resource management, budgeting and cost containment
- Provides mentorship and feedback to project team members
- Recommends and implements policies and procedures for new business processes and manages these processes upon completion of the project. Communicates process changes to impacted business units
- May perform other responsibilities as assigned
Requirements:
- Undergraduate studies in business, mathematics or related field
- Six years of work experience in project management
- Strong knowledge of project management concepts and techniques
- Working knowledge of business terminology, systems and data processing policies, practices and procedures
- Strong relationship building skills
- Outstanding project management skills
- Strong negotiation and problem solving skills
- Proven decision making skills for problem identification and selection of alternatives
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to prepare technical reports and formal presentations
- Project Management Certification
- Business process mapping experience
- Knowledge of business-related systems concepts and requirements