Salary
💰 $104,125 - $175,600 per year
About the role
- Direct the efforts of resources and assist in the development of business implementation strategy
- Handle the portfolio for projects including management of the project schedule, cost, and quality of the total portfolio
- Identify business needs with stakeholders and deliver on IT improvements
- Recommend and implement policies, processes, and tracking mechanisms to be used by staff
- Ensure that projects achieve objectives and are executed in a timely manner
- Review and approve project estimates and statements of work for large and complex efforts or those which have a significant business impact
- Facilitate discussions with business and technical stakeholders throughout the requirements definition and functional design process for large projects or those with significant business impact
- Review and approve user training plans for the largest/most complex projects
- Establish performance objectives for department staff and report on accomplishments
- Direct and monitor the efforts of business analysts on project work plans
- Manage project timelines for multiple efforts within the portfolio
- Provide oversight and direction to business analysts on the approach, structure, and content for design review sessions
- Facilitate and participate in user acceptance testing
- Lead the effort to obtain agreement from the business owners on desired user documentation
- Oversee major change analysis activities
- Serve as the final appeals point for escalated change control issues
- Collaborate with appropriate parties to bring complex change control issues to a reasonable resolution
- Communicate the results of these decisions to all affected stakeholders
- Provide strategic view of the impact of various training efforts and assess impact on the distribution force
- Conduct impact analysis stating company and enterprise implications
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required from four-year college or university in Business, Computer Science, or related field
- Minimum 10 years of experience managing multiple complex, large-scale, high risk business analysis projects
- Minimum 3 years of experience managing a department operating budget and providing oversight to others work
- PMP certification in project management or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum required
- CPCU designation a plus
- Working knowledge managing multiple complex, large-scale, high-risk business analysis projects
- Advanced skills in project management processes, tools and techniques, and analyzing/improving business processes with a technology solution
- Strong leadership, negotiation, presentation and communication skills, competencies in analytical thinking, decision-making, strategic orientation, and results orientation
- Demonstrated competency in managing, mentoring, and developing staff
- Proven experience in managing financial and technology resources
- Extensive knowledge of the insurance business and industry