Job Description
Senior level project management in both Agile and Waterfall environments.
AtAmeritas, our mission isFulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.
Drive the business by delivering results while employing the appropriate project management delivery framework. This position will use either hybrid Waterfall and/or Agile/Scrum processes to work with the teams in delivering projects for the business. Assignments may include providing coordination between teams using different methodologies and providing management reporting and cross-team synchronization.
What you do
- Work with sponsor to understand strategic alignment and define deliverables, benefits, success criteria, assumptions, constraints, and steering team membership.
- Identify project costs and work and manage those with sponsor.
- Identify causes of variance in cost and schedule, document lessons learned to allow for continuous improvement to the delivery process.
- Ensure stakeholders understand how deliverables change business processes and ensure appropriate training is planned
- Establish and follow review/approval process for deliverables while identifying and actively managing risks and issues
- Actively manage scope changes that affect the scope, cost, quality, and schedule and provide alternatives to steering team and sponsor for approval
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution between stakeholders
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
What you bring
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination education and relevant experience required.
- 4-7 years or greater of relevant project management experience involving multiple execution methodologies including Waterfall and Agile / Scrum.
What we offer
- Our company motto is "Fulfilling Life" and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
- Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goesback into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
- We're committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion, and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
- A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you'd expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
- Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training, and career development opportunities.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we're committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude, and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
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