Assistant Vice President, PMO at Everest Re Group in Warren, NJ
Job Description:
It's an exciting time for Everest Re Group, Ltd. (Everest)! As we continue on our journey, we see significant opportunity ahead of us to expand our reach, build diversity, and enhance our capabilities in critical markets. Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Bermuda, Canada, Europe, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. At Everest, we are committed to the development of our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. You will benefit from career development and learning opportunities that will let you set career goals and fulfill them, including:
o Generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement o Mentoring opportunities o Flexible work arrangements o Talent development initiatives o Networking groups Everest is a growth company with $10.5 Billion of Gross Written Premium offering Property, Casualty and specialty products among others, through its various operating subsidiaries located in key markets around the world. Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers. Our financial strength is evident in Financial Agency Ratings of:
A
A. M. Best, A
S&P Global and A1 Moody's Investor Service. We are a market leader for our broad diversified income streams, strong underlying underwriting performance with reduced volatility and strong cash flow. We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive. Although we are currently in the North American market, we see great opportunity to expand our markets. To support this, we are currently looking for a AVP, PMO. The Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Project Management Office (PMO) will serve as a senior program manager driving a large Cross-platform Underwriting Modernization initiative primarily focused on implementing Guidewire's industry-leading underwriting software solutions and other integrated components to meet the fast-growing needs of our Underwriting business units. The AVP, PMO will be responsible for the overall program-level delivery of planning, design, configuration and integration of Guidewire Policy Center (PC), Underwriting Management (UM) applications in a complex, integrated technology environment. The AVP, PMO is responsible for managing end-to-end Guidewire Policy Center and Underwriting Management product implementation and integration with other enterprise applications. This candidate will manage and lead the overall solution design and delivery through coordinating with all stakeholders, internal/external resources and onshore / offshore development teams for scheduling and managing assigned tasks and milestones. The AVP, PMO will report to VP, Head of PMO, Global Business Systems within Everest Technology Services. In this role, the individual will be responsible for managing a team of senior and project managers and grooming junior-level project managers as well. This individual will also support the Head of PMO in other PMO functions such as budgeting, demand and capacity planning, resource management, PM methodologies and best practices. This position will be considered as potential successor to the Head of PMO based on demonstrated performance and leadership capabilities. Responsibilities Lead the overall requirements review, assessment and high level and detailed sizing of required configuration and technical effort. Communicate with business analysts to interpret, clarify and plan for the implementation of user stories. Conduct and lead joint design sessions to help coach solutioning the end product and to capture sizing information required for resourcing and scheduling. Lead and manage the technical design and specifications in line with traceable user-stories / requirements and according to Guidewire and development best-practices. Manage the design, development and implementation of appropriate application program interfaces (API) to integrate with both internal and external applications for a fully-integrated end-to-end process and data flows. Establish sound working relationships with Business Analysis and Quality Assurance Teams to ensure that priorities are reviewed and agreed-upon and that development activities are reviewed and planned for accordingly. Manage resource capacity, project allocations as well as financials for Guidewire Policy Center and Underwriting Management implementations. Responsible for resource management (including hiring, training, guiding, capacity management, etc.) for Guidewire Policy Center and UM resources. Manage vendor relationships and contracts for licensing, professional services and contract resources. Required Skills Experience and hands-on implementation with Guidewire Policy Center integrations and integration patterns is highly preferred. Experience is required with application lifecycle best-practices in managing code versioning (and associated environments), integration, releasing and maintaining Guidewire Policy Center products (during development and in production as technical owner of the platform). Knowledge of secure software development practices and expert understanding of architectural standards, patterns and best-practices with respect to Guidewire configuration and integration is required. Knowledge of Commercial P&C insurance highly preferred. Experience with managing budgets, financials, contracts as well as vendor relationships are required. Experience managing multiple implementation programs with a disciplined approach to resource allocations, planning and organizing parallel end-to-end teams is required. Experience with functional / vertical as well as horizontal / matrix implementation and resource management is required. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate through and lead teams to solutioning. Experienced with Agile SCRUM methodology and tooling (TFS, Rally, JIRA, etc.) in a technical owner / development track lead capacity. Qualifications Extensive experience implementing Guidewire Policy Center (version 9 or above) as a Project Manager with end-to-end integrations (Professional Liability experience strongly preferred). 5
years of experience leading and managing onshore / offshore development teams (20
in size) for one or multiple Guidewire product implementations. 5
years of experience in Guidewire Software Suite of applications. 15
years of general IT project management experience managing diverse team of resources in multiple technology areas.
Salary Range:
$250K -- $500K+
Minimum Qualification
Technical Product Management, Technology ManagementEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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