Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
- Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
- Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
- 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Engaging work environment
- Promotional opportunities
- Education assistance
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Company recognition program
- Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
- Company recognition program
- Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
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