Project Manager

Americo Financial Life and Annuity; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Americo Financial Life and Annuity is seeking a skilled project manager to lead complex initiatives from planning through closing, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget adherence while coordinating cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes risk management, stakeholder communication, and hands-on leadership to deliver projects on time and within approved budgets, with 2+ years of PM experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in project planning, scope and deliverable management.
• Ability to mentor project teams and provide leadership.
• Clear communication of project status and risks to stakeholders.
• Identify and assess potential project risks and mitigation plans.
• Effective reporting of progress and messaging to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead singular or multiple projects, ensuring tactical execution and deliverables.
• Manage scheduling to meet objectives and deliverables.
• Maintain regular communication with project stakeholders.
• Control project scope and handle changes per change management process.
• Identify, escalate, and manage day-to-day project risks.
• Track and manage budgets against approved amounts.
• Make day-to-day decisions for assigned projects and tasks.
• Lead project teams and assign tasks to ensure collaboration.

Skills

Project planning

Leadership & mentorship

Stakeholder communication

Risk assessment

Progress reporting

Team leadership

Job description

This position plays the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing projects. The position is accountable for the entire project scope, project team, resources and doing all that is necessary to ensure the success of each project. They perform this role utilizing critical thinking skills obtained through 2+ years of project management experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: manages singular individual projects of complexity or multiple less complex projects. Focuses on the tactical execution ensuring project deliverables are met.
• Schedule Management: Ensures that work is identified and scheduled in order to meet the requirements of the project’s objectives and deliverables.
• Stakeholder Management: communicates regularly with project stakeholders
• Scope Management: Manages project scope and handles scope changes according to the defined change management process
• Risk Management: manages day-to-day project risks and escalates when significant issues arise
• Budget and Financial Management: tracks and manages project budgets against approved budget amounts
• Decision Making: makes decisions related to day-to-day management of assigned projects and immediate tasks
• Team leadership: leads project teams, assigning tasks, and ensuring collaboration

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Project/program planning – developing project plans, executing on scope, objectives and deliverable; managing risk within the project with minimal oversight
• Providing leadership and mentorship to project teams
• Engaging with project stakeholders to clearly communicate the status of a project/program and any associated risks to its successful delivery
• Identifying potential risks, being able to assess impact/likelihood against the project
• Clear communication and reporting of project progress, effective delivery of all associated messaging including appropriateness to the receiving audience