Agile Project Manager - Senior

Introduction

Welcome to Gallagher - a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 52,000 professionals worldwide, we empower businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it's with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture fueled by shared values and a collective passion for excellence. Join one of our dynamic teams, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping Gallagher's future and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for both clients and yourself.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you're close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

The Agile Project Manager will be an integral part of the Enterprise Data Management group and overall Data Platform Team at AJG. The role is responsible for managing data projects of varying size and complexity.

We are looking for someone with Agile and Scrum knowledge and experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies. This role reports to the Data PMO and works closely with the Product Owner to lead high-profile projects.

This role is responsible for the schedule, scope, budget and quality of the project from initiation through production deployment through hand over to support. Accountable for the successful delivery of services which meet the defined business and technical requirements on time and within budget and improve business and technology processes by managing significant, multi-disciplinary programs and projects. Leads multiple technology and technology related projects.

How you'll make an impact

• The duties associated with an Agile framework include maintaining communication with stakeholders, creating detailed documentation, continually assessing progress and course-correcting, and ensuring the timely delivery of quality work.
• Develops and maintains project artifacts in DevOps, to include the project plan including budget, schedule and resources using the Agile framework.
• Develop and manage product backlogs, setting team and sprint objectives.
• Organize and facilitate meetings.
• Organize Daily Standup's, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Acts as the leader to the project team guiding them towards meeting project objectives.
• Interfaces with business owners, IT, and SME's to facilitate requirements gathering and UAT / Change management during deployment phase.
• Constant communication with project sponsor on project progress, issues, risks and mitigation.
• Maintain key project artifacts such as user stories, project charter, product vision, product backlogs, sprint plans, product roadmap, and release plan.
• Provide weekly project status updates and monthly executive status updates.
• Evaluates project request in terms of strategic direction of business and opportunities to leverage existing technologies/applications.
• Actively participates in all project phases such as requirements, architecture, design and testing to provide guidance to the team.
• Proactively identify and champion opportunities to further streamline and improve the business process.
• Operationally trouble shoots complex issues, co-ordinates integration of various modules and ensures compliance with expected quality standards.
• Clarifies scope, and recommends alternative solutions, project strategy and deliverable prioritization.
• Manages all communication with business users; keeps users informed and updated regularly. Adapts project updates/presentations to audience.
• Participates in multiple key initiatives simultaneously.
• Ability to drive consensus among various stakeholders, including technology management and third parties.
• Ability to lead process improvement initiatives and to collaborate effectively with technology, application, compliance, and audit personnel at multiple levels
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Ability to work at a fast pace and cope with conflicting deadlines.
• Knowledge of data privacy restrictions on the use of data.

Skills:

Agile skills include adaptive planning, cross-functional collaboration and value-based prioritization.

Maintain positive customer feedback integration.

Possess team accountability.

Technical proficiency, iterative solution development, risk management, and communication.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills/critical thinking.

Strong leadership and relationship skills.

Effective stakeholder management: communication, negotiation, direct/indirect influencing techniques, run productive meetings.

Polished documentation practices: ability to assimilate large amounts of information, identify salient details and vary presentation based on audience.

Clear and confident presentation skills.

Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

About You

• Diploma or degree in a technical discipline or similar.
• 10+ years related Project Management experience required.
• Agile Framework.
• Azure DevOps experience
• Planview experience is a plus
• Experience producing detailed project schedules and resource requirements.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - must be comfortable speaking and writing to senior level executives.
• Extensive experience in project reporting, including senior level briefing.
• PMP or PMI-ACP Agile Certified

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Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program - elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as "protected characteristics") by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.