IT Project Manager - Gallagher

At Risk Placement Services, we're more than just a team – we thrive on collaboration, creativity, and tackling challenges head-on. Our culture fosters an environment where every idea counts, and every individual's contribution matters. Step into a world of excitement and innovation as we work with top-rated carriers to design robust coverage for our clients. Unleash your potential and join our spirited team, where you'll have the freedom to explore and the support to grow.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

A Project manager at Risk Placement Services is responsible for the budget, schedule, scope and quality of the project from Initiation through production deployment and support. Accountable for the successful delivery of services which meet the defined business and technical requirements on time and within budget incumbent(s) support and improve business and technology processes by managing significant, multi-disciplinary programs and projects. Leads multiple technology and technology related projects.  

1. Develops and maintains project artifacts such as project plan including budget, schedule and resources.
2. Acts as the leader to the project team guiding them towards meeting project objectives.
3. Interfaces with business owners and SMEs to facilitate requirements gathering and UAT / Change management during deployment phase.
4. Regular communication with key stakeholders on project progress, issues and mitigation.
5. Maintain key project artifacts such as project plans, project status updates, executive status updates as needed.
6. Actively participates in all project phases such as Requirements, Development, Testing to provide guidance to the team.
7. Proactively identifies and champions opportunities to further streamline improve business process.
8. Clarifies scope, and recommends alternative solutions, project strategy and deliverable prioritization.
9. Manages all communication with business users; keeps users informed and updated regularly.  Adapts project updates/presentations to audience.
10. Participates in multiple key initiatives simultaneously.
11. Ability to drive consensus among various stakeholders, including technology management and third parties. 
12. Ability to lead process improvement initiatives and to collaborate effectively with technology, application, compliance, and audit personnel at multiple levels.  
13. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.  
14. Ability to work at a fast pace and cope with conflicting deadlines.

Skills:

1. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills/critical thinking.  
2. Strong leadership and relationship skills
3. Effective stakeholder management:  communication, negotiation, direct/indirect influencing techniques, run productive meetings.
4. Polished documentation practices:  ability to assimilate large amounts of information, identify salient details and vary presentation based on audience.
5. Clear and confident presentation skills.
6. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.  

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Some project management experience required
• Experience producing detailed project schedules and resource requirements 
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills – must be comfortable speaking and writing to all business audiencs, as well as technical audiences 
• Extensive experience in project reporting, including executive level briefing

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On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

 Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.