Senior Project Manager - Guidewire

Mercury Insurance is a recognized leader in the insurance industry, and they are seeking a Senior Project Manager to drive projects using agile methodologies. The role involves managing project lifecycles, collaborating with teams, and ensuring successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead project planning, resource allocation, and monitoring to ensure projects stay on schedule and within budget, utilizing agile principles
• Motivate cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and deliverables, fostering a collaborative and agile working environment
• Accountable for delivering technical projects on time, within budget, and with successful outcomes according to business objectives
• Develop comprehensive project plans encompassing scope management, deliverables, milestones, resource management, finance, and quality management, in an agile context
• Manage multiple projects/scrum teams simultaneously, ensuring effective adherence to Agile practices
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure clear priorities, understanding, and dependencies before sprint planning
• Appropriately engages all organizations to ensure effective adherence to completing PDLC governance
• Maintain and prioritize the requirements backlog, ensuring alignment with technical and operational needs
• Collaborate with Product Management to help drive sprint planning sessions to set development teams up for success in meeting their commitments
• Proactively remove impediments for project teams to ensure continuous workflow
• Monitor and communicate project health, managing interdependencies, and defining critical milestones
• Conduct retrospectives, drive continuous improvements, and share best practices within the organization
• Uphold the company's commitment to risk management and data integrity

Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of Agile, Scrum, project management, or related experience with a software development team that applied Scrum principles, practices, and theories
• Proven track record of leading agile transformations by successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios at all organizational levels, including senior leadership
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira and Confluence
• Ability to influence without authority, be an effective negotiator, and communicate with various organizational levels, including cross-functionally, at the frontline, and with senior leadership
• Demonstrate high level of interpersonal skill used to build relationships and manage conflict within the team and cross-functionally. Well-developed capacity for emotional intelligence
• Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications
• 10+ years experience working in the Insurance industry managing Property / Casualty Information Technology projects
• Experience with Policy and Claims management platforms is also preferred with an emphasis on Guidewire