Senior IT Project Manager -HYBRID

Emergent Holdings; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the insurance sector is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to manage significant enterprise projects. The role involves collaboration with business leaders, managing large initiatives, and ensuring successful project execution while adhering to governance standards. Candidates should possess extensive project management experience and a related degree.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight years project management experience required.
• Experience in IT or strategic planning environment preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Manage core corporate projects and oversee teams and budgets.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure project alignment.
• Lead project risk management and issue resolution.

Skills

Project Management

Risk Management

Stakeholder Communication

Team Leadership

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in insurance, information technology, business administration, or related field

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

SAFe or similar Agile delivery methodologies

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Job Description

Primarily responsible for serving on a team of professionals dedicated to leading and managing significant, strategic, corporate projects for the Enterprise. Provides project management expertise, methodology, and coordination to more effectively identify, plan and implement business and information technology projects. Accountable for leading project teams and managing all aspects of project implementations including selection, planning, management, control, closeout, and the success of project implementation. Exercises broad discretion and judgment in ensuring successful implementation of corporate products and services. Responsible for large initiatives and program epics.

• Directly manages the core corporate projects that lead to the implementation of the corporate strategy. This includes managing people, budgets, and resources, planning, problem solving, risk and issue management, communications, reporting, vendor management, implementation, and project closeout.
• Owns and maintains the multi-year roadmap for strategic initiatives, including the Performance and Insight Center.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders—including Finance, Actuarial, and cross-functional BTO teams—to align efforts, ensure transparency, and manage change across impacted areas.
• Leads communication efforts to keep executive sponsors and key stakeholders informed and aligned on project and feature-level delivery.
• Serves as a liaison between execution pods, business units, and BTO teams to identify, coordinate, and manage dependencies to ensure timely delivery.
• Ensures compliance with architectural and data governance standards and maintains appropriate controls and checks.
• Provides strong risk management by identifying, assessing, and mitigating delivery risks; proactively surfaces bottlenecks and interdependencies that may impact timelines
• .Responsible for helping develop project or program cost benefit analyses.
• Collaborates with Finance and Actuarial Services to build a Benefit Realization plan.
• Manages programs through team collaboration and weekly core team meetings.
• Publishes weekly status reports and updates the project dashboard on a periodic basis.
• Presents project updates as necessary to the executive team.
• Prepares communication strategies that are clear, concise, and timely.
• Responsible for leading and ensuring the successful completion of projects.
• Participates in the maturity of PMO and its continuous improvement.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism.
• Leads the largest and most complex IT projects in the portfolio.
• Performs reviews by individually assessing the health of a project. Reviews findings so that the most important problem areas, as well as most noteworthy areas of strength, are clearly identified.
• Turns troubled projects around.
• Supports PMO continuous improvement efforts.
• Learns agile project management methodology and adopts risk-based approach to implement.
• Helps with the administration of the Enterprise PPM solution.
• Supports portfolio management and the intake and governance process.
• Mentors teams with resource allocation, project prioritization, plan development and analysis, risk, scope and budget management.
• Works directly with executive sponsors, corporate leaders, and project teams to ensure successful project completions.
• Maintains relevant procedures and directions. This includes, but is not limited to handbooks, manuals, tools, and templates.
• Actively contributes to the management of the corporate portfolio of projects.
• Participates in developing department goals, objectives and systems.
• Coordinates with vendors and other external partners as needed, ensuring delivery accountability and integration with internal project activities.
• Works independently and requires minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Actively mentors less senior project managers and team members.
  
  

Job Description

Primarily responsible for serving on a team of professionals dedicated to leading and managing significant, strategic, corporate projects for the Enterprise. Provides project management expertise, methodology, and coordination to more effectively identify, plan and implement business and information technology projects. Accountable for leading project teams and managing all aspects of project implementations including selection, planning, management, control, closeout, and the success of project implementation. Exercises broad discretion and judgment in ensuring successful implementation of corporate products and services. Responsible for large initiatives and program epics.

In addition, this role will serve as the central coordinator for our data strategic initiatives, ensuring the successful delivery of both immediate and incremental value and long-term outcomes. Responsible for leading the alignment across stakeholders, delivery teams and vendor partners, while maintaining clarity, transparency and accountability across all efforts.

• Directly manages the core corporate projects that lead to the implementation of the corporate strategy. This includes managing people, budgets, and resources, planning, problem solving, risk and issue management, communications, reporting, vendor management, implementation, and project closeout.
• Owns and maintains the multi-year roadmap for strategic initiatives, including the Performance and Insight Center.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders—including Finance, Actuarial, and cross-functional BTO teams—to align efforts, ensure transparency, and manage change across impacted areas.
• Leads communication efforts to keep executive sponsors and key stakeholders informed and aligned on project and feature-level delivery.
• Serves as a liaison between execution pods, business units, and BTO teams to identify, coordinate, and manage dependencies to ensure timely delivery.
• Ensures compliance with architectural and data governance standards and maintains appropriate controls and checks.
• Provides strong risk management by identifying, assessing, and mitigating delivery risks; proactively surfaces bottlenecks and interdependencies that may impact timelines
• .Responsible for helping develop project or program cost benefit analyses.
• Collaborates with Finance and Actuarial Services to build a Benefit Realization plan.
• Manages programs through team collaboration and weekly core team meetings.
• Publishes weekly status reports and updates the project dashboard on a periodic basis.
• Presents project updates as necessary to the executive team.
• Prepares communication strategies that are clear, concise, and timely.
• Responsible for leading and ensuring the successful completion of projects.
• Participates in the maturity of PMO and its continuous improvement.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism.
• Leads the largest and most complex IT projects in the portfolio.
• Performs reviews by individually assessing the health of a project. Reviews findings so that the most important problem areas, as well as most noteworthy areas of strength, are clearly identified.
• Turns troubled projects around.
• Supports PMO continuous improvement efforts.
• Learns agile project management methodology and adopts risk-based approach to implement.
• Helps with the administration of the Enterprise PPM solution.
• Supports portfolio management and the intake and governance process.
• Mentors teams with resource allocation, project prioritization, plan development and analysis, risk, scope and budget management.
• Works directly with executive sponsors, corporate leaders, and project teams to ensure successful project completions.
• Maintains relevant procedures and directions. This includes, but is not limited to handbooks, manuals, tools, and templates.
• Actively contributes to the management of the corporate portfolio of projects.
• Participates in developing department goals, objectives and systems.
• Coordinates with vendors and other external partners as needed, ensuring delivery accountability and integration with internal project activities.
• Works independently and requires minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Actively mentors less senior project managers and team members.
  
  

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in insurance, information technology, business administration, or related field required.
• Experience with or certification in SAFe or similar Agile delivery methodologies is preferred.
• Certification or progress towards Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is highly preferred and encouraged.
• Combinations of relevant education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Continuous learning, as defined Company’s learning philosophy, is required.
  
  

Experience

• Eight years project management experience required which provides the necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities.
• Five years relevant experience in an information technology or strategic planning environment preferred.
• Experience within the healthcare industry preferred.
  
  

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of project management principles and practices, including leading, planning and coordination, with the ability to complete large projects involving multiple resources.
• Excellent oral and written communications, as well as presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in the planning, execution and closing of projects.
• Ability to appropriately manage resources, budgets, issues, and risks for the successful completion of projects.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of computer systems, software, and Internet fundamentals.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to successfully function in a team environment.
• Ability to understand business needs and conceptualize and implement information systems that support those business strategies.
• Ability to effectively exchange information clearly and concisely, and present ideas, reports facts and other information, and respond to questions as appropriate.
• Ability to establish rapport and maintain customer satisfaction without compromising priorities.
• Ability to interact with others to build consensus and get decisions implemented.
• Ability to establish workflows, manages multiple projects, and meet necessary deadlines.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to perform other assignments at locations outside the office.
  
  

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work is performed in an office setting with no unusual hazards.

The qualifications listed above are intended to represent the minimal skills and experience levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in this position description. The qualifications should not be viewed as absolute standards, but as general guidelines that should be considered with other position-related criteria.

Pay Range

Actual compensation decision relies on the consideration of internal equity, candidate’s skills and professional experience, geographic location, market and other potential factors. It is not standard practice for an offer to be at or near the top of the range, and therefore a reasonable estimate for this role is between $80,900 and $211,900

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance

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