Sr. Project Manager

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The Sr. Project Manager has primary responsibility for the management of medium to large scale projects which often require larger project teams and/or cross functional teams or multiple non-related projects. The Sr. Project Manager will manage projects from original concept through final implementation, managing customer satisfaction and customer impact throughout. The Sr. Project Manager will lead the project team to proactively identify risks and issues that could challenge project delivery and will ensure those risks and issues are either mitigated or resolved. The Sr. Project Manager will also establish the appropriate governance in line with Markel standards and track benefits throughout the project lifecycle.

In this role, the Sr. Project Manager has the overall responsibility and accountability to drive projects to success as defined by the project executive sponsor and key stakeholders. Work effectively with internal and external customers, third party vendors, governance and senior management in accomplishing project objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead moderate to large complex projects by providing strategic direction to project team, fostering effective working relationships between team members, and taking appropriate action to optimize team performance
• Build relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of key commitments
• Create and manage project plans in a dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements, and ensures regular and accurate communication to project team, stakeholders, and sponsors
• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools including agile and hybrid approaches, and proactively seeks to improve processes, procedures, tools, and methodology
• Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition, and prioritization activities for initiatives
• Identifies, assesses, and manages risk to the success of the project
• Effectively create and deliver presentations to project team and key stakeholders, communicating initiative status
• Leverages problem solving and influencing skills to ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost and timeline and are approved by key stakeholders and sponsors
• Works across teams to agree and implement modifications to project scope; gains executive sign off
• Have excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders, including management of conflict and competing priority resolution
• Highlights issues and risks identified during testing to all stakeholders and sponsorship
• Accountable for managing project budgets and financial data analysis to facilitate decisions
• Acts as the primary point contact between the organization and suppliers; escalates supplier related incidents, problems, or unsatisfactory performance
• Implements planning activities, including managing the process of integrating new work with complementary strategic, operational and change management activity
• Captures, analyzes and shares lessons learned throughout the project and ensures that the project is formally closed out, facilitating the transition to BAU and gaining acknowledgment/sign off from the business sponsor
• May travel up to 10% as needed

Position Requirements:

• 5-10 years of project and resource management experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Ability to build relationships
• Strong customer focus
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Ability to identify and manage risks and issues
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and planning skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strategic, conceptual and analytical thinking and decision making skills
• Negotiating skills within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests
• Ability to communicate highly technical information in a concise manner
• Strong MS Project experience
• Experience with Microsoft Suite of Products - Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint
• Extensive knowledge of project management methodology
• Extensive knowledge in resource and change management

Education:

• College degree in Business related field or Information Technology
• PMP certification (preferred)
• Insurance industry experience preferred

• US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What's in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees' needs at all stages of life.
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Are you ready to play your part?

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US Work Authorization

• US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.