Associate Vice President - Project Management - Insurance

Position: AVP - Project Management,

Experience: 15 to 22 years

Location: Gurgaon / Noida

Job Summary/ Job Opportunity: This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Program leader to lead the delivery and project management for one of the major Insurance clients.

As a Program Leader, you will be expected to lead the project teams and get involved in the projects from the discovery to the production state. Lead the projects in a managed service model where the successful candidate will have an opportunity to demonstrate his/her delivery, project, stakeholder and client management skills:

- Looking for a thought leader, who can contribute as a program manager and can exceed client's expectations with the experience on Managed service delivery

- Ability to work as a technology consultant and help client to define and manage their delivery roadmap

- Ability to lead the multiple programs and understand the landscape of clients business needs

- Very strong client and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong delivery experience on P&C domain solutions

- Strong Understanding of Agile Concepts, Especially SCRUM

- Min CSM or PSM Certification Required, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, ICM certifications etc added advantage.

- Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies

- Ability to manage the client expectations and build relationship to take the engagement forward

- Ability to steer the discussions on Architecture/Technical issues and help in their solutioning

- Ability to develop and control the complex program plans and steer the projects from the inception stage

- Understanding of TFS/DevOps and its Management

- Understand the scope of the project, items being built and ensuring technical feasibility.

- Ability to thrive in rapidly changing environment and should be able to adapt quickly without much handholding

- Coordinate with internal resources and all relevant stakeholders for the flawless execution of projects

- Develop Project Plan to track progress in consultation with Senior Project Manager

assign work and take corrective actions if required.

- Report and escalate to management as needed

- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders

- Perform risk management progress in consultation with Senior Project Manager to minimize project risks

- Create / Get the document created and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

- Understanding of SDLC is a big plus.

- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Attention to details

- Ability to provide constructive feedback and take ownership of grooming of resources.

- Build planning and deployments understanding

- Production support process framework understanding