Project Manager - Insurance - 18mnth fixed term contract

New South Wales  ‐ Onsite
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Description

A leading Insurance company based in the Sydney CBD is urgently seeking a Project Manager on an 18 month fixed term contract.

Working on a group administration software, the role involves:

  • Managing the project through the project life cycle, including developing charters, plans, schedules, and budgets; allocating resources; monitoring performance against schedule, budget, and quality targets; managing changes, issues and risks; and providing regular communication to program management and other areas within the organization.
  • Establishing and maintaining effective communication with other project managers, cross-functional project teams, and internal/external customers in order to identify key plan tasks and due dates.
  • Providing guidance in the application toolset required to code, test and troubleshoot applications for new development and on-going support, and direct the activities of all technical resources on the project.
  • Ensuring business partners' expectations are met, gain understanding when desired outcomes are not feasible and provide alternative solutions to meet objective(s).
  • Communicating with remote teams

Skills

  • 6-8+yrs Project Management experience
  • Extensive experience working with decentralised/remote teams
  • Experience with rollouts/deployment of software
  • Experience with business process change
  • Banking/Financial Services experience, ideally Insurance
  • Excellent communication skills is key.

Interested? Please apply online or send your updated CV.

Start date
n.a
Duration
18 months
From
Robert Walters - Sydney
Published at
21.08.2012
Project ID:
409357
Contract type
Freelance
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