Project Management Officer Role - Insurance

Our Client is a specialist professional services and technology firm working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated, and global businesses. They help clients manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform, and grow. They deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.

Their global team of more than 6,500 professionals operates across ten countries, including the UK & the US. Over the past ten years, Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today, the Group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.

Our client seeks to delegate certain job functions to their Pune office, which serves as a hub for outsourcing operations. They require a skilled Project Management Officer to comprehensively assess requirements, provide strategic solutions, conduct cost estimates, and perform cost-benefit analyses. Additionally, the Project Management Officer will be tasked with supervising multiple projects and liaising with stakeholders worldwide.

Objectives of this role:

- Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, by providing purpose, direction, and motivation

- Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation

- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure that projects adhere to scope, schedule, and budget

- Analyze project status and, when necessary, revise the scope, schedule, or budget to ensure that project requirements can be met

- Establish and maintain relationships with relevant client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes Responsibilities

- Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks

- Structure and manage integrated, multitrack performance databases for digital, print, social, broadcast, and experiential projects

- Develop and maintain partnerships with third-party resources, including vendors and researchers

- Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables

- Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan

Required skills and qualifications:

- Four or more years of project management experience

- Strong attention to deadlines and budgetary guidelines

- Proven success working with all levels of management

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Excellent presentation skills Preferred skills and qualifications

- Professional certification such as PMP or PRINCE2

- Experience in developing platforms for internal processes

- Experience in coaching project team members to strengthen their abilities and skill sets