Project Management Specialist
Ryan Specialty
PMP
Project Management Specialist
Ryan Specialty
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Chicago • Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 - $125,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Develops project plans, defines scope, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements and coordinates with stakeholders to ensure timely and successful project completion.
- Facilitates communication among project team members, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure alignment and transparency throughout the project lifecycle.
- Identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks to minimize potential disruption or delays.
- Manages project integration, scope, time, resources, costs, benefits, and quality and communicates the status, risk, and issues associated with each to the correct levels(s) within the project structure and the organization to ensure that the project outcomes are achieved as defined, within budget and on time.
- Monitors project budgets and expenses, ensuring adherence to financial constraints and reporting any variances.
- Acts as a gatekeeper for the executive to prioritize meetings and appointments and necessary materials daily.
- Evaluates project performance against established metrics and objectives, identifies areas for improvement, and implements corrective actions as necessary.
- Provides continuous guidance to team members in project lifecycle, operating procedures, processes, and practices.
- Understands systems, processes, products and the impact to the project and business objectives utilizing Lean and Agile principles.
- Implements and monitors quality assurance processes to ensure project deliverables meet established standards and requirements.
- Coaches’ others in the Agile project philosophy best practices and supports delivery of training tools and materials for teams to support new initiatives and ongoing product training needs.
- Maintains accurate project documentation, including project plans, status reports, meeting minutes, and other relevant documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, or related field with 5 years of related experience; or 3 years and a Master’s degree.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI – ACP), Certified Insurance Project Manager (CIPM) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) is preferred.
Benefits
- Paid time off for company holidays, vacation, sick and personal days
- Paid parental leave
- Mental health services and more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project planningrisk managementbudget monitoringquality assuranceAgile principlesLean principlesproject performance evaluationproject documentationresource managementscope management
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementteam guidancealignment facilitationproblem-solvingcoachingtransparencyorganizational skillsleadershipadaptability
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI – ACP)Certified Insurance Project Manager (CIPM)Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
