Project Manager, Us Regions (Remote)

Intro
Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper.We live a culture defined by The Gallagher Way, our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 40,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures.
As a member of our benefits and HR consulting team, you’ll help our clients -- employers of all sizes, across all industries -- build workplaces that work better.
Overview
The Gallagher Benefit Services (GBS) Project Manager, U.S. will contribute to success by planning, executing and managing projects of varying size, scope and complexity using sound judgement, strong interpersonal skills and effective tools and techniques. Projects typically require business and technology focus and may deliver new or enhanced capabilities to multiple functional areas; or, may support a larger cross-functional program. Further, you will work with the senior executive team, U.S. regions, local branches, and functional leaders as stakeholder groups, driving a number of initiatives from ideation to execution.
In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of a project from concept to implementation and operationalization. Further, you will often lead and be responsible for requirements elicitation and documentation, business analysis, data analysis, test planning and test execution, as well as supporting merger integration efforts.
You can be primarily remote/virtual/work from home and can sit anywhere in the US, however occasional travel to our corporate headquarters in Rolling Meadows, IL (and potentially other locations) may be required.
Responsibilities
Project Initiation and Planning

• Ensure that all project personnel receive an appropriate orientation to the organization and project prior to commencement of project activities. This includes presenting the project schedule with senior leadership and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revising the schedule as required.
• Develop project plans using proven Project Management Institute best practices and methodology, and incorporate enough flexibility to tailor plans to achieve desired business goals.
• Lead projects leveraging the GBS suite of systems and processes, ensuring that all required sub-projects, work streams and activities are identified, planned, and managed for successful integration.
• In collaboration with Gallagher leadership, other project management stakeholders, develop project plans that reflect analysis of current state, characterize future state, and properly document project goals, scope, stakeholders, risks, issues, success criteria, and effort and resource estimates.
• Determine the resources (time, cost, technology, etc.) required to plan successful projects and sub-projects. Create detailed work plans which identify the sequence of activities needed to successfully complete M&A integration

Project Execution and Oversight:

• Review the quality of work completed with the project team and various work streams on a regular basis to ensure the work meets integration standards
• Maintain an objective, fact-based perspective while overseeing projects. Encourage teams to promote project status transparency and proactively recommend opportunities to improve and support better project outcomes
• Proactively manage integration project plan(s) to deliver them in-scope, on-time and on-budget while enforcing checkpoints and managing and documenting change-control efforts
• Identify opportunities to modify current processes or procedures to reduce costs or improve productivity through observation, request or assignment
• Ensure that integration activities are completed on-time, within budget and at the required level of quality as defined by project sponsors.
• Ensure support organizations are prepared with properly documented instructions, workflows and job aides for a successful transition to ongoing/business as usual
• Develop and monitor the implementation Cost Benefit Analysis as appropriate, effectively sequencing activities in way that drives the best allocation of resources and time.

Project Communication & Change Management:

• Promote use of project team shared sites or dashboards to ensure that all project management information is appropriately documented, secured and available to team members
• Manage the creation and deployment of training (environment, materials and facilitation) in conjunction with Learning & Development teams
• Create, maintain and deliver project communications including: status updates, charters, schedules, budgets and sponsor presentations
• Develop project status reports that accurately reflect the project achievements, risks and issues for all key stakeholders, including organizing and facilitating Project Steering Committees

Best Practices Development:

• With each project, document lessons learned and develop improvements that can be moved to established repeatable processes for the future
• Make recommendations to senior leadership and other divisional stakeholders on how to develop systems, processes, and approaches to increase program effectiveness.
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Identify opportunities to modify current processes or procedures to reduce costs or improve productivity through observation, request or assignment

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of insurance brokerage industry and enabling technologies desired
• Experience with data mining techniques preferred
• Broad and deep expertise in project management tools, techniques and processes
• Expertise with change management as it relates to systems, operational changes and integration
• 5+ years project management experience; PMP nice to have
• Experience managing project teams
• 5+ years SQL, data analytics, reporting and relational database experience preferred
• Demonstrated project management skills, techniques & various methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, Scrum)
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required; Master’s degree nice to have
• Experience with business project management, business processes, workflow, data flow and system integration projects

Work Traits:

• Strong business and organizational acumen, leadership abilities, good judgment, appropriateness and encouragement
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and consensus building skills
• Strong collaboration, negotiation, escalation and consensus building skills
• Strong in critical thinking, data analysis and reporting, risk and controls and process improvement
• Must be a self-starter, having demonstrated experience in a lead role, be well organized and a strong leader who can adapt easily and rapidly to new developments and changing priorities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, exhibit poise and exercise diplomacy in communication, ability to influence others toward consensus, conflict management and decision making

Additional Information
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We offer competitive salaries and benefits, including: medical/dental/vision plans, life and accident insurance, 401(K), employee stock purchase plan, educational expense reimbursement, employee assistance program, flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function), training programs, matching gift program, and more.