IT PROJECT MANAGER INSURANCE

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Project & Delivery Management:

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of IT initiatives in partnership with business stakeholders, ensuring clarity on scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
• Facilitate pragmatic project governance appropriate to the organization’s informal project management culture.
• Coordinate delivery across application, data, infrastructure, and vendor teams where responsibilities span multiple functions.
• Track milestones, risks, and decisions; proactively remove blockers and escalate issues when required.
• Produce concise, executive-ready status updates focused on progress, risks, value delivery, and next actions.

Change Management & Solution Enablement

• Partner with business and IT leaders to ensure solutions are implemented effectively—not just delivered technically.
• Support solution rollout planning, readiness assessment, adoption activities, and transition to operations.
• Ensure roles, responsibilities, and process changes are clearly understood and documented as part of delivery.

Process Engineering & Playbook Development

• Design and document scalable delivery processes, templates, and playbooks to improve IT execution consistency over time.
• Identify and introduce fit-for-purpose tools for planning, tracking, communication, and delivery governance—balancing rigor with agility.
• Continuously improve delivery practices based on lessons learned, delivery challenges, and organizational maturity.

Vendor &

Partner Management

• Act as a coordination and control point for IT vendors and implementation partners across active initiatives.
• Ensure vendor deliverables, timelines, and dependencies are transparent and aligned with internal capacity.
• Support contract execution, service expectations, and issue resolution in collaboration with IT and procurement leadership.

Audit, Risk, and Governance Support

• Support internal and external audits related to IT initiatives, delivery controls, and process documentation.
• Ensure core delivery artifacts, approvals, and decision logs are maintained to an audit-appropriate standard.
• Help standardize lightweight governance practices that reduce operational risk without slowing delivery.

Cross‑Functional Leadership & CIO Enablement

• Serve as a trusted partner to the CIO, helping translate strategy into executable initiatives.
• Engage regularly with department leaders (IT, Data, Finance, Operations, Compliance) to align priorities and sequencing.
• Support capacity planning, intake clarity, and prioritization across the IT portfolio.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or equivalent experience.
• 5–8+ years of experience in IT project, program, or delivery management in a complex, cross-functional environment.
• Proven ability to deliver outcomes in organizations with evolving or informal project management standards.
• Experience launching or facilitating a data governance framework is a plus.
• Strong experience working directly with senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in leading initiatives without formal authority.
• Exceptionally organized with strong follow‑through.
• Proactive problem solver with a “figure it out and fix it” mindset.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and creating structure where none exists.
• Strong written and oral communication; able to translate complexity into executive‑level clarity.
• Influential relationship builder who earns trust quickly across functions.

Pay: $130,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• IT management: 5 years (Required)

Location:

• Austin, TX 73344 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Austin, TX 73344