Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance

Hudson Manpower Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Himalayas is seeking a Project Manager with a Property & Casualty insurance background to lead IT initiatives from initiation through delivery. The role involves managing multiple IT projects with budgets around $150K+ and coordinating with a matrixed team of vendors and internal stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5–7+ years of hands-on project management experience, strong MS Project skills, and a proven ability to communicate clearly, forecast financials, and drive results while maintaining

Qualifications

• P&C Insurance project manager background
• 5–7+ years IT project PM with budgets of ≥$150K
• Proven end-to-end IT project delivery
• Experience with MS Project planning
• Strong governance: planning, execution, monitoring
• Vendor management and SOWs
• Urgent, results-driven
• Judgment: push back when needed
• Executive presence with stakeholders
• Customer-focused, collaborative
• Forecasting project financials
• Excellent communication
• Sound decision-making
• Technical understanding of systems/data flows
• Willingness to learn new PM tools

Responsibilities

• Lead IT projects from initiation to completion.
• Manage 3+ projects concurrently depending on complexity.
• Lead a matrixed project team focusing on resource allocation and scheduling.
• Create and maintain schedules using MS Project/Project Server.
• Reconcile team time cards with planned hours and adjust tasks.
• Track project financials; manage variances and funding needs.
• Ensure adherence to PPM processes and templates.
• Identify risks/issues; escalate appropriately.
• Prepare and deliver twice-monthly status reports.
• Engage with project teams, sponsors, stakeholders, portfolio managers.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget forecasting

Vendor management

Communication

Tools

MS Project

Project Server

Job description

Lead IT projects from initiation to completion.

Projects may involve:

• Implementation or customization of commercial off-the-shelf insurance applications
• Mobile/web technologies
• System integrations
• Software upgrades
• Intelligent Automation (RPA)
• Infrastructure (hardware)

• Manage 3 or more projects simultaneously depending on complexity, duration, and phase.
• Lead a project team of matrixed resources, resolving challenges related to resource allocation and scheduling.
• Build and maintain project schedules in MS Project/Project Server using effort-driven and auto-scheduled approaches.
• Reconcile project team time cards against planned hours, investigate discrepancies, and adjust project tasks to maintain accurate forecasts.
• Track and reconcile project financials in accounting tools; resolve variances between forecast and actuals, release excess funds when not needed, or request additional funding when baseline changes occur.
• Ensure strict adherence to all Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) processes, procedures, and templates.
• Identify, anticipate, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions; escale appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Prepare and deliver twice-monthly project status reports.
• Engage regularly with project teams, business sponsors, stakeholders, portfolio managers, and other key stakeholders.

Requirements

• Project Manager with P&C background in Insurance
• 5–7+ years of recent project management experience delivering IT projects with budgets of at least $150K.
• Proven record of delivering IT projects from start to finish.
• Familiarity with effort-driven project planning in MS Project.
• Strong skills in project management disciplines: planning, execution, monitoring, and control.
• Experience managing vendors, creating and executing Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Strong sense of urgency; ability to drive results from self and project team members.
• Balanced judgment—knows when to push back and when to adapt.
• Demonstrated leadership and “executive presence,” particularly in managing stakeholders and delivering challenging messages under pressure.
• Strong customer focus; collaborative, responsive, and accurate in work approach.
• Experience managing and forecasting project financials (invoices, timekeeping, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills with ability to deliver clear, concise messaging to all organizational levels.
• Sound judgment in decision-making, with ability to navigate complex options.
• Willingness to develop technical understanding of systems, data flows, and high-level architecture.
• Openness to learning and adopting new project management tools

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Originally posted on Himalayas