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Role Purpose:

The project manager role is key to successfully achieving delivery of the Verisk Specialty Business Solutions (VSBS) software solution(s) to our clients, on budget and on time. The project manager is responsible for leading a team to scope the way the project will be run, setting and managing deadlines and monitoring and reporting work progress against such deadlines and budgets both to internal stakeholders and client stakeholders.

Main Responsibilities:

Pre-Sales

• Participate in the creation of the project Statement of Works with pre-sales, Head of Product Line and Product Line Delivery Manager.
• Works with the Product Line Delivery Manager to determine appropriate skill required for the project work and book the appropriate Product Line resources to complete the project work.

Project Execution

• Responsible for successful project delivery (medium in scale) within project budgets whilst following the VSBS PMO project delivery processes. To include, but not limited to, responsibilities for: -
  • Obtaining stage-gate and all interim sign-offs, e.g. client specifications, internal build & test tasks
  • Release process and supporting project & stakeholder sign-offs
  • Managing Client User Acceptance Testing
  • Project closure and handover to BAU teams (e.g. VSBS Support)
  • Pre-empting and removing any issues or blockers during project execution to allow the successful delivery.
• Works with the Product Line delivery team to agree the requirements and approach for new work.
• Organises with the delivery team the estimates for the desired project work.
• Manage the project delivery team to deliver against agreed budgets and timelines.
• Create appropriate project plans and liaise with the client to achieve a joint plan for a successfully delivered project. Maintain the plans as changes occur and the liaison with the client to adjust the joint plans.

Management, monitoring and optimisation of the project plan

• Manage the project delivery team to deliver against agreed budgets and timelines.
• Ensure all project quality processes and standards are adhered to for the scale of project in execution.
• Obtain regular forecasts from the team to enable accurate project reporting.
• Review timesheets submitted from the Product Line delivery team to ensure timely and accurate detailed timesheet entry.
• Manage project risks and issues.
• Raise appropriate Change Controls to manage change requests (scope, schedule or budgets), achieve client sign-off and maintain project governance.
• Works with the Product Line Delivery Manager and other Product Line Project Managers (e.g. PMIII) to resolve problems and complaints.

Reporting and client engagement

• Ensure accurate project reporting – weekly internal invoices, external client project status and budget reports.
• Work with the client Account Manager, Head of Product Line and Product Line Delivery Manager to monitor and maintain project revenues are kept in line with forecasts/targets.
• Regular engagement, at least weekly, with the VSBS Account Manager to maintain a close understanding of current project positions and the client strategic positions on the account.
• Develop good working relationships with team members.
• Develop good working relationships with client project team members.
• Provide performance feedback on project team members.

Continual improvement and governance

• Collate project lessons learned throughout the project life-cycle. Applying improvements during project execution and following project delivery to participate in continuous improvement programmes as appropriate.
• Execute product-line improvement plans identified by the Delivery Manager and other senior product-line stakeholders.
• Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.

Knowledge and Experience:

Essential

• Previous experience within a software development environment across the full development life-cycle.
• Commercially minded project manager with strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Proven track record for delivering software projects on time and on budget.
• Structured approach to project management (e.g. PMP).
• Attention to detail and focus on delivering quality software products.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Project, Work, Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Insurance domain knowledge is advantageous but not essential.
• Proven track record for delivery complex software projects on time and on budget.
• Project Management Qualification (e.g. PMP).

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

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