Project Manager - Guidewire

Role: Project Manager - Guidewire

Location: Warren, NJ (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Job Responsibilities:

• The Guidewire Project Manager will be responsible for post-release support.
• The focus will likely be UAT support, the role is combination PM support and BA.
• Report status and progress metrics to internal and client stakeholders while clearly articulating project risks.
• Changes that affect the scope, schedule, and resources are identified, managed, and controlled with an integrated and cohesive plan.
• Manages critical projects, customer engagements or business processes.
• Collaborate with testing team to ensure full testing is successfully performed -- including unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance -- to project standards.
• Provides thought leadership, guidance, and advice in own field.
• Adapts communication techniques for audiences at multiple internal and external levels.
• Pro-active in managing all the details throughout the project, to ensure that all action items are accomplished on a timely and accurate basis
• Prioritizes work so not only the most urgent work is completed, but also the most important
• Articulate and active participant in client and internal meetings; can deliver instructions in a clear and concise manner, providing proper materials and documentation when necessary
• Maintains a clear and reasonable vision of ?next steps? and the ?big picture? during meetings, conversations or whenever the parameters of a project change
• Adapting to scope creep and change requests.
• Supports team on scope and schedule issues
• Conduct Weekly project meetings and produce daily/ weekly status reports
• Work with technical teams to resolve blocking issues to deliver on client requirements
• Cultivates develops and manages strong, lasting customer relationships at the senior leadership level.
• Manages multiple mid to large projects or at least one complex project or program that require high levels of functional integration and some organizational change management

Required Qualifications:

• Strong Insurance Knowledge, Proven experience in Guidewire development, specifically with Policy Center or Claim Center.
• 8+ years of experience in Guidewire Policy Center, Claims and Underwriting
• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on experience of scope & change management related issues
• Bachelors or Master's

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is required:

• 5+ years project management experience
• Strong leadership and motivation skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Optional / Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Guidewire in the United States is desirable, as handling Workers' Compensation requires compliance with varying state-level regulations.