Sr. Project Manager, Reinsurance

Sapiens • ,

7d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager leads clients and internal staff in implementing Sapiens’ proprietary applications. The role combines technical competence, reinsurance industry knowledge, and customer-facing skills, with most time spent working directly with client business and technical teams and internal technical experts.

Reporting to the Reinsurance Professional Services Executive and working under general supervision, the Project Manager is accountable to Sapiens management and clients for successful, timely, and cost-effective system delivery. The position owns project initiation, planning, and delivery, including stakeholder reporting, risk planning, change management, and issue mitigation. Projects must be delivered within scope, on time, on budget, and to a high standard of quality. The successful candidate uses Agile or waterfall methodologies and supporting software to plan, schedule, report, and manage risks across multiple concurrent projects.

The role is fully remote, with occasional attendance at client sites depending on client requirements. Minimal travel is anticipated, potentially up to 15% depending on assigned projects. The position has no supervisory responsibilities such as hiring or conducting performance or pay reviews, though it provides feedback for annual performance reviews of direct team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent education in a STEM discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience leading software projects that involved developing and delivering customized customer solutions.
• Experience delivering projects to Tier 1 Carriers.
• At least five years of experience in the P&C Reinsurance industry.
• Experience with project management practices including planning, resource management, change management, risk management, budgeting, and scheduling.
• Strong knowledge and experience with Agile and waterfall methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience leading teams and providing coaching, mentoring, and training to customers and Sapiens staff.
• Strong oral, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Project, Excel, and other Microsoft Office tools.

Nice To Haves

• PMI certification, PRINCE2, or another advanced project-management credential.
• MBA or another master’s degree in management, science, or engineering.
• Ability to represent a company confidently and charismatically in front of its customers.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent work assignments.
• Training and experience in US GAAP or IFRS accounting in a regulated industry.
• SAFe certification.
• Agile Scrum Master certification.
• Experience in business transformation projects.
• Experience working with offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Initiate projects in partnership with Sapiens finance, legal, and sales staff; assist with client-tailored sales materials and prepare, review, obtain client agreement for, and secure signatures on license contracts, work orders, and change requests.
• Manage project resources, including supporting technical leads in producing and delivering project artifacts throughout the lifecycle, matrix-managing assigned business analysts, developers, and QA testers, and coordinating with resource managers to secure qualified team members.
• Collaborate with project team members to produce and maintain implementation blueprint requirements documents; draft, execute, monitor, and update project plans.
• Estimate and create project budgets; track costs against forecasts, review budgets and costs with clients and internal management, and maintain detailed project time records for team members.
• Ensure disciplined project governance by providing inputs and reports for client governance processes and reporting statuses, milestones, risks, and project-plan performance to Sapiens’ PMO and senior managers.
• Maintain a proactive risk-management process by documenting and reporting project risks, identifying mitigations, and contributing to PMO risk-management processes.
• Own project change management and the change backlog; identify changes before unplanned work begins, manage priorities, draft and execute change orders, and contribute to the client’s change-management process.
• Manage client relationships for assigned consultancy engagements, maintain familiarity with engagement terms and agreements, manage expectations and deliverables, handle contract management and project invoicing, and participate in client issue-management and escalation processes.
• Coordinate with internal teams to resolve system delivery and support issues.
• Participate in strategic planning with client and Sapiens management to establish project scope and objectives.
• Provide feedback for annual performance reviews of direct team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior