Senior Project Manager

ABOUT HUB

At HUB International, we are a team of entrepreneurs. We believe in protecting and supporting the aspirations of individuals, families, and businesses. We help our clients evaluate their risks and develop solutions tailored to their needs. We believe in empowering our employees to learn, grow, and make a difference. Our structure enables our teams to maintain their own unique, regional culture while leveraging support and resources from our corporate centers of excellence. 

HUB is the 5th largest global insurance and employee benefits broker, providing a boundaryless array of business insurance, employee benefits, risk services, personal insurance, retirement, and private wealth management products and services. With over $5 billion in revenue and almost 20,000 employees in 600 offices throughout North America, HUB has grown substantially, in part due to our industry leading success in mergers and acquisitions. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

HUB’s dynamic and growing Technology and Operations Delivery PMO has an opportunity for a project manager to step in and lead high-performing teams on mission critical, enterprise-changing initiatives.  The successful candidate will be an A+ communicator who is ready for the spotlight, welcomes challenges, and always drives for the best business outcome.  Seeking a leader who will bring a perspective, contribute to the intellectual strength of the Technology and Operations Delivery PMO team, and work with a mindset of continual improvement.  Must show track record of career growth and ability to articulate the business value of the projects and programs they have led. 

This is an individual contributor role but experience as a team manager with a focus on growing and developing people is helpful and welcome.  This leader will have primary responsibility for delivery as well as opportunities for shaping and managing demand, working with business counterparts to develop solutions and build business cases.  Full command and in-depth experience across waterfall development methodology is required. Strong background in agile methodologies is strongly desired.  This is a next-level opportunity for the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, high visibility initiatives, toward achieving critical IT-enabled business objectives
• Develop in-depth understanding of HUB's business goals in order to plan and execute effective project delivery strategy
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members across multiple simultaneous initiatives
• Create collaborative environment among business teams, internal IT teams, and vendors
• Hold vendors and strategic partners accountable for delivering the scope, timeline, and business benefits as promised in statements of work
• Understand and anticipate the priorities of the business through building productive working relationships with HUB business colleagues
• Develop high level of IT organizational agility; understand HUB's enterprise solutions and pursue effective relationships with the IT teams that support and enhance these solutions
• Manage key stakeholders; communicate critical project information, and actionable insights, to the right stakeholders at the right time
• Implement course correction measures at initial signs of trouble to ensure healthy scope, schedule, budget, and business value
• Coordinate with business liaisons and organizational change management resources to ensure end-user impacts are properly communicated and adopted
• Build relationships with IT Operations teams to coordinate on smooth transition into production
• Collaborate with Technology and Operations Delivery PMO colleagues on team initiatives to enhance PMO delivery methodologies; grow organizational capabilities across both traditional waterfall and agile delivery approaches
• Contribute to project intake process; help manage incoming demand; help develop business cases
• Primary contacts include: CIO/CTO, Director - Technology Business Management, IT steering committee, Finance leadership, IT leadership team and staff and Business unit executives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in finance, computer science, information systems, business administration or related field. In lieu of degree, an equivalent amount of relevant work experience will be considered.
• Minimum 5-10 years’ experience working in key roles on major delivery initiatives
• At least 5-years’ experience acting in the lead delivery role on projects or programs, which are highly complex, large, and central to enterprise strategy
• Effectively delivered initiatives that have had disruptive