Project Manager (Remote)

Description

Position Summary

The Project Manager (PM) supports external clients throughout the project implementation and software development lifecycle. The PM is responsible for managing client statements of work, facilitating requirements analysis and design, baselining project plans, keeping the client informed of project progress, tracking and communicating financial status, ensuring timeline schedule, managing change, mitigating risk, and working with the client to facilitate on time, on budget project deliveries.

About Us

Join a team where we encourage creativity and innovation, champion teamwork and are committed to being the best. In this environment we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products.

Hexure, started with a simple goal: transform the insurance and financial services industry through powerful end-to-end sales solutions. For more than 25 years, carriers and distributors have depended on our commitment to innovation, speed to market delivery and deep domain expertise. Our solutions have been implemented within industry-leading insurance carriers and distribution firms. And our track record of empowering client success speaks for itself.

Together as a team, we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products. We endeavor to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better solutions for our clients.

Why you'll love working here:

• Generous benefit packages - We offer our employees competitive health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as long term and short-term disability insurance.
• Pre-tax savings programs including flexible spending accounts, and a 401K that is competitively matched!
• Lifestyle Spending Account. This provides an employee the flexibility to spend benefit dollars on the things that matter most to them.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO). Work-life balance is a key part of our company culture here at Hexure, and we know that our employees do their best work when they can take the time they need to rest and recharge.
• Office Closures - Inclusion and Diversity are integral to enhancing our culture. In support of this, we offer 6 companywide office closures and encourage all employees to use flexible PTO to celebrate religious or cultural holidays, employee birthdays, or other state or federal holidays that bring personal meaning.
• In addition to all the standard PTO options, Hexure proudly offers a generous and progressive paid Modern Family Leave policy.
• Professional Development - Hexure supports you and your professional development with a LinkedIn learning account.
• We also have employee anniversary perks, health, and wellness programs, and much more!
• Most benefits are effective on date of hire!

Deliverables and Performance Measures:

• Provide exceptional customer service to clients and internal teams.
• Project deliverables are managed to plan - on schedule, on budget, and delivered to client's satisfaction.
• Project financials are at or under budget to client approved assessments.
• Project timeline is delivered on time or early according to plan.
• Resources are managed effectively through timely, accurate bookings and facilitation of coordinated work product delivery.
• Changes to project scope are impact-assessed, communicated, and managed with client for change approval.
• Productivity, utilization, and margin metrics, as established and communicated by the company, are tracked and met within threshold guidelines.
• Resourcing, task management, bookings, time recording, budget, timelines, dependencies and other required project details are maintained accurately within the project management system.
• Established KPIs are met and in alignment with Project Management requirements.

What will make you successful:

• 3-5 years' experience in project/program management.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office Products: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint and Visio.
• Experience with NetSuite/OpenAir is a plus.
• Financial services industry experience is a plus.
• Project Management Certification a plus (PMP, CSM, CAPM, SAFe, etc.).
• Six Sigma or Lean process improvement experience a plus.
• Experience with Jira a plus

Core Competencies

• Interpersonal Skills: Now more than ever, the ability to build relationships with team members and clients is pivotal to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates who can communicate effectively and help cultivate an agile environment of collaboration and inclusion.
  • Provides a definite sense of direction and purpose.
  • Provides people with a clear understanding of how their work fits within a wider organization.
  • Delivers presentations clearly and with high impact.
  • Develops a trusted 2-way communication interface between the team and stakeholders.
  • Promotes a high level of cooperation between all members of the work group.
  • Looks for ways for team to work with other teams and divisions.
  • Achieves objectives requiring a high level of cooperation from people in other parts of the organization.
  • Takes the lead in resolving conflict within a work group.
  • Keeps team informed of all relevant information affecting the organization, team members and their work.
• Personal Capabilities: We believe that the way people manage themselves and their relationships with others in the workplace is critical to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates that effectively put their knowledge, values, and skills into practice.
  • Identifies and highlights new trends, potential problems and opportunities early.
  • Effectively coaches others on how to analyze information to solve problems.
  • Encourages and coaches others to seek alternative ways to solve complex problems.
• Focus on Results: As a company that values innovation, we are looking for candidates who will help drive efforts to build commitment for individual and team objectives, as well as anticipate and respond to issues and opportunities that could affect the organization.
  • Does everything possible to achieve goals.
  • Regularly measures and evaluates progress.
  • Accepts responsibility for the results-based outcomes of group.
  • Holds others accountable and encourages others to take accountability for achieving results.
  • Shares credit and recognition with others for achieving goals.
  • Proactively addresses business demands.
  • Fosters a team attitude of going above and beyond minimum requirements.
  • Coaches team members on how to take action in the face of ambiguity.
  • Avoids procrastination that may be damaging to the team or business.
  • Rewards individuals for going above and beyond expectations.
• Customer Advocacy: Our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver customer-centric sales experiences, accelerate speed to market, improve in-good-order sales and meet regulatory requirements. This requires a focus on our customer satisfaction. We are looking for candidates who can understand the needs and concerns of our clients and address them quickly and expertly.
  • Regularly connects with customers to gather feedback on current activities and relationship with business.
  • Uses knowledge and feedback from a customer perspective to improve the team's service/ product.
  • Regularly attends external meetings to represent the unit and that will benefit the business.
  • Encourages team to respond quickly to customer needs and concerns.

Where We See This Role Going:

We are committed to being a driving force in the innovation of the insurance market and that means that we help our employees stay on top of current trends and technologies, and progress within our company. This position can move into the following roles.

• Senior Project Manager
• Director Project Management

Expected hours of Work:

This is a full-time position with regular office hours Monday through Friday.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee incumbent in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.