Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aspire General Insurance is an insurance company expanding into new states and markets. The State Expansion Project Manager leads strategic planning, governance, and execution of state expansion initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams, executive leadership, regulatory activities, vendors, budgets, launch readiness, and post-launch stabilization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end planning, governance, execution, and delivery of strategic state expansion initiatives
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, budgets, and resource plans
- Partner with executive leadership to define expansion strategy, priorities, launch readiness, and success metrics
- Lead cross-functional teams to ensure all business areas complete required deliverables on schedule
- Facilitate executive steering committee meetings, project status meetings, and decision-making sessions
- Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints
- Coordinate regulatory filing activities with Compliance and Legal while aligning operational readiness to approval timelines
- Oversee third-party vendors, implementation partners, and consultants to ensure contractual deliverables and timelines are achieved
- Collaborate with Product, Underwriting, Claims, IT, Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Customer Service to prepare each business area for launch
- Manage project budgets, vendor statements of work, implementation schedules, and financial tracking
- Prepare executive dashboards, presentations, and status reports highlighting milestones, risks, decisions, and overall portfolio health
- Support testing, operational readiness, training, go-live planning, and post-launch stabilization activities
- Establish standardized project governance, documentation, templates, and best practices for future state expansion efforts
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline launch processes and reduce implementation timelines
Skills
- 5+ years of project management experience leading large, cross-functional enterprise initiatives
- Property & Casualty insurance experience required; state expansion or regulatory implementation experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience presenting to and influencing executive leadership
- Strong understanding of project governance, portfolio management, and project management methodologies
- Excellent analytical, organizational, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives in a fast-paced environment
- State expansion or regulatory implementation experience strongly preferred
Benefits
- Option for remote or hybrid work, subject to business needs
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