Assistant Manager - PMO - Insurance

AM PMO in a Leading Insurance & finance Company

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title Asst Manager - PMO

Roles And Responsibility:

Provide day to day project management support to the Project Manager through planning and management of project activities to pre-agreed deadlines and to prevailing programme governance / standards, by interacting with project teams across Prudential Business Units

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

Project Planning

- Facilitation of team planning sessions to agree plans, milestones, deliverables and both, inter and intra-programme dependencies.

- Provide assistance to the project teams in setting goals and planning the day-to-day activities

- Development and maintenance of detailed activity-based project plans and resource requirements using MS Project or other pc-based applications as appropriate.

Project Tracking

- Close liaison with various project teams across Prudential Business Units (including JNL and PCA) to establish an accurate view of project progress.

- Review and assessment of reports to identify progress against plans.

- Supporting the Project Manager in the identification of risks and issues arising from project teams and maintenance of appropriate project records and RAID logs etc.

- Supporting the Project Manager in the identification and effective management of project dependencies across the programme.

- Reinforcing prescribed governance and good practice and enforcing/tracking quality assurance of deliverables prior to sign-off.

Project Monitoring and Reporting

- Preparation of weekly and monthly team status reports to describe progress achieved and identify risks and issues for escalation as appropriate.

- Assistance with preparation of monthly reports for stakeholders as required.

- Preparation of project documentation.

Team Support

- Provision of assistance to the Project Manager in managing relationships with internal and external suppliers, e.g. setting and agreeing target deliverables and milestones and tracking progress.

- Assistance with managing team activities as directed by the Project Manager.

Key Interfaces

Internal External

Competence / Knowledge / Skills / Behaviours required

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree, specialized training, or equivalent work experience

- Minimum 4+ years- experience in BPR/Project management with experience of involvement in medium / high impact projects

- Certified PMP / PRINCE2 practitioner

Knowledge

- Knowledge of project management lifecycle methodology.

- Knowledge of MS Project

- Excellent MS Excel, Powerpoint and Word skills

- Excellent knowledge of using Visio and Igrafx

- Insurance domain knowledge will be an added advantage

Skills

- Ability to understand business issues, and understand the business impact of proposed solutions

- Ability to present problems and solutions clearly and concisely both in writing and verbally

- Ability to demonstrate excellent listening and comprehension skills to formulate appropriate options

- Effective Probing skills and interviewing skills

- Excellent Stakeholder Management skills

- Good interpersonal skills

Attitude

- Ability to cope with ambiguity

- Willingness to travel internationally on short to medium term assignments

- Customer focused

- Work in a structured and logical way with a high degree of accuracy

- Works easily with different personality traits

- Willingness to stretch

- Proactive and positive

- Result-oriented

- Ability to handle high pressure environments

Interested candidate please forward your CV at earliest with current and expected CTC with notice Period

Shraddha Mehta