Project Manager, Senior

Introduction

Join our growing team of dedicated professionals at Gallagher Bassett, who guide those in need to the best possible outcomes for their health and wellbeing. You'll be part of a resilient team that works together to redefine the boundaries of excellence. At our organization, we value collaboration and making a positive impact in the lives of our clients and claimants, offering you the opportunity to join a team where your skills and dedication can truly make a difference. GUIDE. GUARD. GO BEYOND.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

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You will lead medium to complex data warehouse and data visualization projects using your Project Management expertise. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're excellent communication skills means you’re equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with your development team.

Successful candidates will have a strong technical project management background in Data Warehousing, be detail driven, have excellent problem-solving abilities, have strong business judgment, and experience leading cross-functional teams.

Your project management expertise and operational excellence will influence the team's decisions, drive secure and robust solutions and produce high quality products to delight our customers and internal stakeholders. We are looking for leaders with proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically, and someone who is excited to take on new, ambiguous projects.

We execute work leveraging Agile Scrum and Waterfall frameworks.

This individual will:

· Direct development teams and drive the execution of the project schedule, scope, and budget throughout the project life-cycle.

· Will lead the communication plan facilitating project sponsor meetings, team meetings and status reports. They will provide project presentations to executive leadership groups and review and provide input on project deliverables.

· Foster high reliability by initiating process improvement opportunities based on past project experiences and leads the business sponsor, stakeholders and project team to identify lessons learned and champions the improvement opportunities.

· Execute Project Management and SDLC disciplines:

o Comprehend and Embrace the Project Business Case: The right PM should be capable of focusing a project on the delivery of the business case, and shaping the team’s efforts to achieve a solution and time frame that align with the business needs.

o Estimate Projects: The right PM should be comfortable working with business resources, technology architects and other IT resources in order to create Top Down (e.g. - T-Shirt size) and Bottom Up (deliverable or task based) hours and dollars estimate.

o Plan Projects: Prioritizing completing efforts, securing resources from other managers and integrating those resources into a detailed work plan that reflects tasks and associated estimates is a fundamental responsibility of a PM at GB.

o Monitor and Communicate Progress: Following industry standard Project Management processes to keep Projects on task and ensure the project is progressing as planned. Status should be reported and communicated at the appropriate level of detail to the team, IT management and appropriate business stakeholders. The successful Project Manager will be experienced in monitoring project vs the plan, identifying course corrections that may be required and keeping project management deliverables (e.g. – work plans, estimates) up to date as these changes occur.

o Track and Manage the Budget: The successful candidate will be capable of tracking the financial status of a project throughout the project lifecycle and escalate potential problems. Manages costs and resource allocation among projects. Collects and analyzes actual costs, time and scope delivered against plan.

o Manage Issues and Risks: As the project experiences issues, the PM should be adept at clearly identifying and articulating the true blocker and then executing steps to drive the issue to a conclusion; escalating when needed.

o Control Change: The right project manager should keep the team focused on the original plan, be capable of identifying the differences between changes that are just detailed requirements vs. a fundamental change - and follow a rigorous process to gain management approval for those changes.

o Communicate: We are a matrixed organization, and as such, it is important for a PM to be in alignment with the team, the business and IT management. The right PM will understand how to communicate across these audiences and will be able to do so in an efficient manner to ensure client expectations are in-line with project goals and objectives.

10+ years of strong project management experience focused in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from vision through implementation, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.

· 5+ years of managing Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing project ranging in size from large scale and small efforts.

· Advanced understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and run team meetings.

· Creative thinker who can quickly adjust between strategy and execution as well as adapt to dynamic needs that may arise

· Experience in a data-driven environment.

· Experience or understanding of ETL.

· Comfortable working with MS SQL Server or other large database platform. Understanding of using SQL to query.

· Strong vendor negotiation and partnering skills with experience in outsourcing and off shore development.

· Demonstrated effective relationship management and ability to influence key decision makers.

· Experience working in a cloud environment, specifically Azure is considered a plus

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

 Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.