Program Manager- P & C Insurance- NY/NJ $140-160,000 + bonus + commission + stock. MUST BE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN P & C LINES IN ITS ENTIRETY!!! ***To be considered, candidates should precisely define their P & C experience in their resumes. The Program Manager will provide client oriented leadership, account management and project management functions for clients in the Insurance vertical. The Program Manager will create and manage synergies, dependencies while resolving any conflicts, risks and issues. The Program Manager will recommend both tactical and strategic Program and Project direction to senior management based on ROI, business objectives, prioritization and overall impact. He or she will serve as a subject matter expert resource to the Project and Program functions and is expected to lead and create, then meet or exceed actual program targets, including all related P&L goals. The program manager will need to establish credibility within his/her client base and move from a vendor to partner status with an eventual goal of being a trusted advisor. They will need to balance the role of client facing, client advocate yet ensure that the services team is performing within scope and according to plans. Requirements: - 5 to 10 years experience in the Insurance Industry (inside or as a solution provider) providing program management skills focused on complex infrastructure technology solutions that include the ability to associate technology features and functionality with a customer's business and IT strategy requirements.
- Experience in managing all financial aspects of the major client engagement from strategic (long-term) and tactical perspectives. Proven ability to manage programs P&L with emphasis on margins and increased revenue while preserving and expanding mutually beneficial relationships with clients.
- Experience in creating of a cohesive team focus from many matrix/virtual areas: executives, technical engineers, testing, vendors, all with widely differing business scopes and cultures, to achieve a common strategic objective and support the client's business strategy.
- Extensive background in business planning and analysis, financial modeling and metrics.
- Strong process knowledge of information technology from an application, database, server, networking and operating systems perspective. Knowledge of business continuance, high availability, disaster restart/recovery and other IT best practices concepts as they relate to business practices.
- Experience in managing the research, architecture, planning, design, and implementation phases of customer's projects/programs during the entire life cycle from pre-sales to post-implementation
- Excellent communication skills with all levels of external and internal executives, line management and personnel utilizing excellent written and presentation skills, ensuring the message is concise by bridging between technical and business viewpoints (both ways).
- Reasonable amount of travel is required.
- College degree is required.
Responsibilities: - Manages the Program as the single point of contact for client needs, responsible for the success of all Services and insurance product project management delivery teams; ensuring appropriate and varying levels of methodology based on project size, complexity and risk, resulting in meeting defined project performance metrics.
- Managing all financial aspects of client engagements including full responsibility for Program's P&L. Will be responsible for and measured by margins & generating additional revenues while preserving and expanding mutually beneficial relationships with clients.
- Ability to positively represent the company to different customers and develops strong Customer relations and helps personnel develop effective Customer relationships as demonstrated by follow on activities and an increased Services footprint within the client
- Supports efforts to market and sell end-to-end solutions and participates in initiatives to improve the company's image and ability to deliver value-added services.
- Develops, writes, and produces complex and unique solution proposals, statements of work, purchase agreements, and negotiates contract modifications.
- Creates and then maintains the tracking of reports which includes Project based accounting, in the form of project P&L's, utilization metrics, T&E, etc... Creates and closely monitors key program performance indicators (budgeted revenue, earned revenue, budgeted cost, earned value, realization etc.).
- Establishes and monitors program change control, configuration management and risk assessment process. Hand-offs to delivery account PM & team for closure.
- Participates in Discovery Phase (under insurance product business line leadership) and leads the Implementation Phase.
- Manages interaction with the client (requirement elaboration/ approvals, scope, change management, dependencies)
- Manages interaction with insurance business line and ensures that the program remains aligned with the standard product/ blue-print
- Provides the necessary buffer to delivery personnel by removing obstacles to success and appropriately inserting oneself into areas that require attention.
- The Program Manager will report to the Insurance Practice Lead.
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JACK SCHWARTZ is the Managing Director of Staffing at ITech Recruiting LLC. Previously, he was a Vice President, Staffing Services at The Ayers Group, and he ran the Information Technology Contingency Search Practice for The Jarvis Walker Group (JWG). Before JWG, Jack was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the NPD Group, a market research firm. Prior to NPD, he managed three metropolitan area offices for Source EDP, a national IT search firm, and was a Senior Director of Applications Development for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Jack has a BS and an MS in Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business of N.Y.U.
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