W. R. Berkley

IT Project Manager

Posted on: 10 Apr 2021

Hamilton Square, NJ

Job Description

Company Details

Berkley Accident and Health is a member company of W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. Berkley Accident and Health provides an innovative portfolio of accident and health insurance products. It offers four categories of products: Employer Stop Loss, Group Captives, Managed Care (including HMO Reinsurance and Provider Excess), and Specialty Accident.

Berkley Accident and Healths two primary office locations are Marlborough, MA and Hamilton Square, NJ, and the company underwrites Stop Loss coverage through Berkley Life and Health Insurance Company, rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best. For more information, please visit www.BerkleyAH.com.

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for delivering successful project outcomes through the use of thought leadership, peer influence, and project management best practices. This role concurrently manages a rolling portfolio of approximately five, multi-month efforts relating to application (re)configuration, data reporting, and business process improvement. Projects are staffed using a matrixed-structure using cross-functional resources that do not have direct reporting authority to the Project Manager. At times, the role augments team resources by performing business analysis tasks when pertaining to a technical nature.

Your responsibilities in this role are to:

* Oversee and manage IT related projects with the goal of delivering an effective solution in a timely manner
* Proactively engage business users by organizing and leading project team meeting
* Lead the collection, documentation, and understanding of all business requirements
* Successfully work through with the IT department the conversion of business requirements into IT specifications
* Document and communicate deliverable challenges and proactively identify solutions to those challenges
* Resolve differences of opinion amongst business user where and when they exist
* Develops and maintains project plans, work estimates, risk registers, contact lists, status reports, etc.
* Actively manages scope, timelines, and resources to successfully deliver projects
* Provides regular status, communication, and management follow ups through self-directed time management

Qualifications

* BA/BS Degree, Information systems or related field
* 10-12 years of direct work experience in information technology
* 5-7 years of direct work experience in project management
* Strong project management experience delivering IT application / data reporting / business process projects
* A plus is experience with the Stop Loss insurance industry
* A plus is experience with technologies like Microsoft Reporting Services, PowerBI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools
* A plus is experience working with Structured Query Language (SQL)
* A plus is PMI certification or equivalent
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* Strong facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
* Strong organization, communication/interpersonal, patience, and self-motivation skills
* Strong skills with independent judgement and decision making
* Strong comfort with ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability

W. R. Berkley

Greenwich, CT

Founded in 1967, W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding company that is among the largest commercial lines writers in the United States and operates worldwide in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance and Reinsurance. Each of the Berkley companies, or operating units, within Berkley participates in a niche market requiring specialized knowledge about a territory or product.

Our competitive advantage lies in our long-term strategy of decentralized operations, allowing each of our Berkley companies to identify and respond quickly and effectively to changing market conditions and local customer needs. This decentralized structure provides financial accountability and incentives to local management and enables us to attract and retain the highest caliber professionals.

We have the expertise and resources to utilize our strengths in the present environment, and the flexibility to anticipate, innovate and respond to whatever opportunities and challenges the future may hold.

 

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