Project Management Practice Lead
About The Position
The Project Management Practice Lead is accountable for designing, evolving, and enabling the enterprise delivery system as a value delivery engine. This role establishes principles, capabilities, and practices that allow the organization to translate strategy into outcomes effectively. The Practice Lead drives alignment across functions, reduces friction in decision-making, and builds a high-performing PM capability focused on value, flow, and adaptability. This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. This role requires a minimum of 10 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience leading enterprise delivery or transformation initiatives
- Minimum of 10 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry, with demonstrated understanding of products, operations, and regulatory environment
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and scaling Project Management teams in a complex, enterprise environment
- Demonstrated success evolving organizations from process-driven to value-driven delivery
- Deep expertise with enterprise prioritization, portfolio management, and decision frameworks
- Proven ability to design and optimize enterprise delivery systems
- Strong systems thinking and ability to operate in complex environments
- Executive-level influencing capability across business and technology leadership
- Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing PM capabilities
- Strong financial, strategic, and operational acumen
- PMP or equivalent experience required
Nice To Haves
- advanced degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Ensure enterprise initiatives align to strategy and value outcomes
- Define principles and guardrails for value-based delivery and prioritization
- Partner with strategy and portfolio functions to reinforce outcome alignment
- Design systems that enable flow across the enterprise
- Partner with Portfolio to optimize sequencing, capacity and prioritization
- Remove systemic barriers to flow and improve speed to value
- Establish decision frameworks and governance models
- Reduce decision latency and organizational ambiguity
- Enable consistent, transparent tradeoff management across the enterprise
- Align Strategy, Portfolio, Business, and Technology functions
- Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and collaboration
- Influence executive leadership to support value-based delivery practices
Benefits
- Base Pay Range
- Additional Compensation and Benefits
- 401(k) eligibility
- various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave
- discretionary annual incentive programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
