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SENIOR CORPORATE PROJECT MANAGER to Serve the Insurance Industry

JOB SUMMARY

MANIFEST Technology seeks a Senior Corporate Project Manager to oversee projects from planning through completion, ensuring alignment with company strategy and goals. This role collaborates with leadership, staff, external vendors, contractors, and project team members to keep initiatives on track and within budget, using our client's project management methods and tools. The manager will also mentor others and promote effective project management practices across the organization.

Job Type: Contract-to-hire

Duration: Permanent hire

Location: Hybrid – prefer candidates reside in the Wausau, Wisconsin area.

Pay Range: Salary: Market rate; C2C rate negotiable

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide direction and support to project team. Build effective project teams by facilitating and participating in meetings with involved departments and resources to establish and direct project progression and evaluation.
• Conduct initial and ongoing communication between department heads, project team members, and stakeholders that will promote successful goal accomplishment and the identification of issues or risks that may become barriers to success.
• Assist project team members in resolving issues and perform risk management activities to identify project opportunities and hurdles.
• Assess situations to determine importance, urgency and risk, and make decisions that are timely and in the best interest of the organization. Facilitate and participate in meetings with involved departments, stakeholders, vendors, and contractors to assist in defining and refining project requirements and to outline project development and implementation approaches and supporting resource requirements.
• Work closely with stakeholders and resources to develop multifunctional project management plans leading our client's efforts to develop project scope, tasks, deliverables, resources, timelines, budgets, and evaluation metrics. Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors and contractors.
• Act as a liaison between project sponsors and stakeholders assisting them to manage the financial, human, and technical resources required to successfully achieve the project's goals and objectives.
• Manage project resource allocations, schedule, and budget. Identify resources needed to meet project goals, work with department heads to procure resources, assign resource responsibilities, and ensure proper utilization of assigned resources.
• Utilize project management software to provide meaningful status reporting, resource utilization, task completion, and budget information to corporate and department management.
• Manage, monitor, and report on projects by tracking progress against agreed scope, milestones, and deadlines.
• Adhere to change control procedures and record required justification and resulting decisions.
• Work with stakeholders and IT project team members to ensure technical solutions are sound and meet operational requirements.
• Champion and mentor project management skills and processes and act as a mentor for others in the project management role by utilizing approved or researched project management methodology, standards, procedures and project management techniques and train project team members and others in the project management role in their value and use.
• Provide technical knowledge and assistance related to the development of Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Information (RFIs) and Statement of Work (SOWs).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, execution, control, reporting, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company and department strategy, commitments, and goals.
• Responsible that the scope and direction of each assigned initiative is on schedule and meets expected deliverables and budget.
• Administer project management methodology, processes, tools, and artifacts to support successful project completion.
• Present reports defining project progress, issues, and risks along with mitigation steps.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and make constructive suggestions for change.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors and contractors.
• Act as a lead and mentor for others in the project management role and business.
• Travel as necessary.

NOTE: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties performed by this employee. Employees may be requested to perform job‑related tasks other than those specifically presented in this job description. The employer reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

Prior Experience:

• Proven project management work experience with at least six years of diverse experience in project management of corporate, multi-departmental, and technical projects.
• Ability to manage all aspects of projects from inception to successful implementation.
• Proven experience in people management.
• Demonstrated leadership experience and team building experience.
• Additional experience in one or more of the following areas preferred:
• Extensive organizational and operational knowledge and experience.
• Comprehensive project development and project implementation knowledge and experience.
• Extensive work in business process improvement projects and related change management and staff development activities.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Major in business administration/management, organization development, IT, and project and/or production management preferred.
• Project management certificate or designation is preferred.

Necessary Knowledge and Abilities:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to properly communicate to all levels of the organization.
• Must be able to function independently with limited supervision and guidance.
• Ability and willingness to learn the property and casualty insurance industry and its products, services, and operation models.
• Proven project management experience with significant time spent managing corporate/multi-departmental level and technical projects.
• Proven critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Tested and refined interpersonal skills.
• Organized, analytical, and self‑motivated.
• Average‑to‑advanced computer skills.
• Ability to positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
• Ability to manage people without direct authority in an effect to complete project initiatives.
• Able to make sound judgements and to complete decision making with limited mentoring and guidance.
• Demonstrated and proven skills in conflict resolution and negotiation.
• Technical understanding of subject areas including a grasp of information technology concepts and processes.
• Highly developed negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills.
• Thorough knowledge of project management concepts, practices, and techniques.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects and initiatives at one time.
• Ability to coach and mentor and provide leadership through influence.
• Maintain confidentiality of project information.

Next Steps

• Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration!
• Please send your resume to and then text/call David Slaymaker at 5

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Our Claim Specialists are committed to helping our customers through the claims process while providing Remarkable® service. This includes:

• Investigating, evaluating, negotiating, and settling claims
• Applying knowledge of policies and insurance regulations when determining coverage, liability, & damages
• Handling high-volume inbound and outbound calls, tailoring each conversation to the specific merits  and details of the claims being handled, written correspondence and/or various electronic media
• Effectively managing work through task driven queues while multi-tasking in a fast-paced call center environment
• Supporting our customers through personalized, caring, and simple interactions

Where You'll Work:  This is a hybrid position which allows you to spend some of your time working from home as well as some time working collaboratively in-office. During the job training period you may have a higher percentage of time spent in-office to support your learning experience.

Hours of operation are continually evaluated and may change based on business need. Successful candidates are able and willing to work flexible work shifts and may be asked to work overtime and/or irregular hours.

Several of our Claims teams are hiring, and you may be considered for multiple opportunities where your skills and qualifications align. 

Some of the areas we hire Claim Specialists for could include any of the following:

• Auto Injury: Handles bodily injury and uninsured/underinsured claims along with property damage claims involving injuries
• Personal Injury/Medical Payments (PIP/MPC): Handles first-party medical coverage for customers injured in an automobile accident
• Special Investigative Unit (SIU): Handles high-volume, complex auto and property claims involving NICB indicators of fraud to determine if specialized investigation is needed
• Auto Property Complex: Handles high-volume, mid-to-high complexity property damage claims, not involving personal injury
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Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred or equivalent work experience
• Experience as a Claim Specialist in the insurance industry, specifically in auto and/or property claims, including the following:
  
  • Proficiency in using CCC, Xactimate, XactContents, and other estimating/evaluation software tools
  • Strong knowledge of auto and/or property insurance policies, coverage and claim handling practices
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Competitive candidates also demonstrate the following:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with clients, agents, and other stakeholders
• Proven effective empathy and de-escalation skills to handle difficult/emotional conversations with a customer-minded focus
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and analytical skills
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Ability to multi-task across technical platforms
• Accountability
• Resourcefulness

Additional Details:

• Employees must successfully complete all required training, including applicable proficiency and licensing exam(s) and background checks required of various state(s).
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• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
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Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!