Title: Senior IT Project Manager Industry: Insurance Location: Columbia, South Carolina; onsite Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday Contract: 1 year contract-to-hire   Job Summary: The Senior IT Project Manager sits on the Commercial Project Management Service team and handles a range of projects across the business areas of the company. Utilizing hybrid-agile techniques, this PM works on a team of 12, focusing on the digital experience and non-host applications of the company. Responsibilities: 

• Owns overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts.
• Responsible for multiple work efforts of any size, from minimum complexity system/customer impacts to greater complexity system/customer impacts.
• Adheres to project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budgeted hours, adheres to high quality standards, and meets expectations
• Monitors project plans, assignments and work efforts on a daily basis.
• Ensures resource needs are assigned appropriately and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues
• Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans to meet the needs of work effort.
• Responsible for leading the project from inception to final business acceptance and implementation.
• Mentors other project leads and participates in the training and development of staff. 

Requirements:

• 5 years IT experience in a leadership capacity, including 2 years of experience leading two or more concurrent project teams
• Software: Microsoft Office, MS Project or Azure Dev Ops
• Excellent communications (verbal and written) skills with assertive yet customer-focused style.  
• Advanced leadership skills in a team or project environment.  
• Excellent problem solving and conflict management/resolution skills.  
• Advanced analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail.  
• Strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies, information systems, business processes, and the key drivers and measures of success for the business unit and the organization.  
• Advanced competency in management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects.  
• Strong ability to lead multiple multidiscipline, high-performance work teams throughout project life cycle. 
• Strong ability to negotiate terms and scope of work documents.  
• Advanced ability to prepare and present formal presentations.  
• Ability to manage all phases of work effort from inception to completion. 

 
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of job-related work experience or Associate’s Degree plus 2 years of job-related experience