Senior Project Manager - Marketing

Alliant Insurance Services is one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing insurance brokerage and consulting firms. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead, manage, and oversee complex project-level activities, ensuring project objectives are clearly defined and met according to customer expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the coordination and completion of multiple small to large projects
• Acts as central point person for assigned projects and keeps sponsors, stakeholders, business partners, and project team members informed on matters, including progress to plan, key milestones, integration efforts/needs across the program, and/or project, risks, issues, etc
• Ensures project team members are clear on their assignments and remain focused on objectives line-of-sight
• Partners with project sponsor to lead the clarification of project objectives and identify quality outcome expectations
• Establishes goals and implements action plans for achieving set objectives
• Creates and manages project implementation plans, which includes but is not limited to, deliverables and milestones
• Coordinates and creates business and functional requirement documents required to achieve desired objectives
• Develops internal communication strategies useful in ensuring clear communication between various departments of the organization
• Tracks project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Provides leadership and direction for the project team through clear communications, mentoring and coaching
• Prepares and leads project team status meetings, promoting a collaborative environment while recording meeting discussions, decisions and actions
• Creates project controls, such as action item lists, risk logs, issues logs, change control and decision logs
• Escalates risks, issues, and changes that will impact the desired objectives or schedule
• Seeks opportunities to implement process improvements within the department
• Identifies opportunities to improve process and policy
• Manages vendor and contract submissions through the approval process
• Directs content development, providing creative recommendations and solutions, as needed
• Assists team members with surplus workflow
• Establishes strategic vision and advances professional practice
• Oversees email workflows, design, and updates; implements knowledge of email coding and best practices; measures the performance for all email marketing campaigns

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Five (5) or more years of experience managing complex projects
• Experience with System and Data Delivery projects
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodology
• Strong project management or scrum master experience
• Portfolio Management Professional (PMP)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Agile or other project management systems
• Excellent business requirements identification and articulation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Good problem solving and time management skills including the ability to work independently
• Excellent presentation preparation and effective/efficient delivery
• Ability to be open to constructive feedback and alternate thoughts/ideas
• Ability to coach and consult project team members
• Ability to work within team and promote teamwork
• Ability to research, analyze and synthesize large amounts of information, and deliver reliable recommendations and/or present outcomes in a clear and concise manner
• Strong work ethic
• Ability to quickly acquire skills and learn new techniques
• Ability to interface with executives – internal and external