Program Manager Jobs

Job type : Full time

Job location : Stamford, Connecticut

Roles & Responsibilities

· End to end responsibility for the delivery of multiple medium complexity projects and a large-sized complex project, establishing and maintaining the correct structures to control and monitor the deliverables to the business to realize the benefits as defined in the Business Case.

· Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling, and reporting activities ensuring that comprehensive project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained, and issues are actively managed through to their successful resolution.

· Delivers effective communication to all interested parties including stakeholders and Senior Managers to support effective decision-making and manage the smooth and integrated delivery of projects. Understands the impact the project has on the Business Unit and strives to lessen the impact to a minimum possible in close cooperation with Senior Business Managers.

· Manages third party relationships ensuring that dependencies are identified and managed and deliverables are achieved, as defined in the project’s Initiation Document and without incurring unnecessary cost or delay to the project.

· Determines, monitors, and reviews all project economics, including costs, project resources, and project risk, ensuring that there are appropriate and effective governance arrangements, supported by appropriate reporting.

· Ensures that project control procedures are in place, and actively used to assess the effect risks, issues, assumptions, and change has on costs, timescale and/or resource needs and reports these to project sponsors.

· Identifies, secures, and manages project resources to achieve project and organizational objectives in line with the project schedule, approved funding and within expected quality and timescales.

· Demonstrates compliance with agreed methodology, standards, policies, and procedures to ensure strong governance, sharing knowledge and providing feedback and ideas so that performance is continually improved.

· Shares knowledge and experience with L&G Project Management community, coaches less experienced Project Managers in specific subjects and is actively involved in continuous improvement activities affecting the project delivery framework.

Generic Managerial Skills

· Financial Services Background specifically in Life and Pensions insurance.

· Asset and Liability mgmt. understanding

· Change/Transformation management disciplines with track record of deliver or cultural change and transformation expertise.

· Large complex program delivery experience and track record of delivery

· Provision of change consultancy services

· Proven track record of delivering large, complex, multi supplier transformation/change projects.

· Product and technology savvy with an aptitude to bridge the gap between business and IT to deliver pragmatic, cost-effective solutions.