Regional Tech / IT Project Manager (Insurance migration projects) - ($75k UP)

• 5 days work
• Good career prospect
• Various projects with chance for promotion

Description:

Our client, , Global insurance company, is now looking for Senior IT Project Manager to join their technical development teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Strong Delivery and execution background in managing multi-vendor and multi stream projects across Asia.
The candidate shall have a strong technical delivery background with ability to manage a fairly large cross functional team.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large program/project of work is critical for the role.
• Senior candidate with total 12- 20 years’ of work experience and must have minimum 5- 10 years solid work experience as Tech Project Manager
• Good knowledge of life insurance domain - Knowledge of business processes, products and systems
• Experience in large scale policy admin enhancement or migration projects
• Excellent communication in English and Cantonese is required for this role.
• Not open to expats.

• Scope Management: Ensure project scope is documented, ratified, and baselined. Continue to contain and manage the scope effectively throughout the project.

Schedule Management:

o Create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project implementation

o Develop a schedule for project execution including design, development, testing and cutover activities. Plan iterative releases and sprints to complete the build and testing. Schedule

management is a key requirement for this role

• Change Management: Work with regional and country change managers to prepare and implement a

business change management and training plan.

• Benefit Management: Determine the business objectives and benefits. Post deployment track and measure the business KPIs against these benefits

• Track and monitor the program to ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality

Stakeholder Management:

o Ability to identify and engage with key project stakeholders throughout the project duration.

o Co-ordinate and guide the business analysts, architects, development and testing teams and work

closely with country IT and business teams to achieve project milestones and objectives

• Resource & vendor management:

o Determine and onboard the resources required to execute the project

o Provide technical expertise and business acumen to the project team which strengthens and develops the program delivery capability.

o Oversee multi-vendor teams to ensure clear requirements for products and services to enable the delivery of the project

Governance & Reporting:

o Manage, coordinate and report on the project to create clear visibility and transparency of delivery and financial performance

o Establish appropriate governance of the project to ensure the right results are delivered through

the agreed mechanisms and thresholds

• Risk and Issue Management: Effective management of resources to drive resolution of identified project

issues and risks and gain internal and/or external buy-in that risks and issues are effectively mitigated within desired tolerance levels.

Cost Management:

o Estimate costs needed to execute the project based on scope, timeline and resources.

o Work in collaboration with the PMO to provide monthly financial status update

Education:

• Masters or High Ranking Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Experience & Competencies Required

• Good knowledge of life insurance domain - Knowledge of business processes, products and systems

• Proven experience of multi-vendor, multi-location projects and have managed large teams of at least more than 50-100 resources

• Experience in large scale policy admin enhancement or migration projects

• Expert knowledge of complex and interdependent projects and continuous improvement methodologies, techniques, tools and controls

• Excellent communication in English and Cantonese is required for this role

• Broad knowledge of all aspects of the systems/software development lifecycle (including Agile)

• Experience in one or more of the technology stack is preferred - Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, ReactJS, Azure

Interested parties please email a MS Word version resume and expected salary to aston.yeung@manpowergrc.hk (+852 94548869) and quote the job reference no.