Project Manager (hybrid)

Summary: This role is responsible for planning, budgeting, facilitating, and leading medium to large size organizational priorities (“projects”) from inception to successful completion.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead the project to a successful conclusion by facilitating scope, managing customer expectations, monitoring day-to-day execution and ensuring the project is on schedule and within budget.
• Maintain strong working relationships with project team members and key stakeholders.
• Coordinate all phases of project life cycle, including initiation, planning, execution, control and closing. Functional ability to manage work teams responsible for medium to large sized project delivery.
• Functional ability to leverage traditional project management methodologies and agile practices.
• Plan and maintain project schedule, with appropriate milestones and dependencies. Functional ability to evaluate project progress based on task completion.
• Prepare and track basic project budgets. Functional ability to analyze cost trends. Lead and facilitate cost benefit analysis as appropriate.
• Capable of requesting organizational resources, as well as managing time and task commitments.
• Functional ability to manage conflicts inside and out of the project team.
• Capable of leading quality gate discussions at key points of the project life cycle to determine quality improvement opportunities and go/no go decisions around next phase readiness and business case validation.
• Ensure effective communication between the project team and all impacted stakeholders.
• Tracks and reports project status on a weekly basis, including escalating risks and issues that require leadership attention.
• Identify and document potential risks and monitor them across the project's timeline. Work with project leadership to resolve any issues that become a reality.
• Functional ability to manage vendor/contractor relationships within a project. Capable of following corporate procurement processes and ensuring contract requirements are being met.
• Capable of managing the change control process. Aware of methods to measure project success.
• Has functional knowledge of project management and presentation software tools.

What You’ll Bring To The Company:

Four-year professional degree and/or comparable education & experience is preferred, one to five years’ experience in project management is preferred. Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical issues in an easy-to-understand format such as written proposals and strategies, is also needed. Should possess excellent oral/presentation skills, with the ability to develop and deliver presentations, lead and facilitate planning/strategic discussions, and mediate the decision process in a group setting and create win/win outcomes. Ability to coordinate medium to large size projects a must. Insurance industry experience preferred. Certifications (PMP or Agile) / training in the field of project management desired. Must have the ability to lead meetings and set agendas.

About Us:

Grange Insurance Company, with $3.2 billion in assets and more than $1.5 billion in annual revenue, is an insurance provider founded in 1935 and based in Columbus, Ohio. Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home and business insurance protection. Grange Insurance Company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin and holds an A.M. Best rating of "A" (Excellent).

Grange understands that life requires flexibility. We promote geographical diversity, allowing hybrid and remote options and flexibility in work hours (role dependent). In addition to competitive traditional benefits, Grange has also created unique benefits based on employee feedback, including a cultural appreciation holiday, family formation benefits, compassionate care leave, and expanded categories of bereavement leave.

Who We Are:

We are committed to an inclusive work environment that welcomes and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We hire great talent from various backgrounds, and our associates are our biggest strength. We seek individuals that represent the diversity of our communities, including those of all abilities. A diverse workforce's collective ideas, opinions and creativity are necessary to deliver the innovative solutions and service our agency partners and customers need. Our core values: Be One Team, Deliver Excellence, Communicate Openly, Do the Right Thing, and Solve Creatively for Tomorrow.

Our Associate Resource Groups help us create a more diverse and inclusive mindset and workplace. They also offer professional and personal growth opportunities. These voluntary groups are open to all associates and have formed to celebrate similarities of ethnicity/race, nationality, generation, gender identity, and sexual orientation and include Multicultural Professional Network, Pride Partnership & Allies, Women's Group, and Young Professionals.

Our Inclusive Culture Council, created in 2016, is focused on professional development, networking, business value and community outreach, all of which encourage and facilitate an environment that fosters learning, innovation, and growth. Together, we use our individual experiences to learn from one another and grow as professionals and as people.

We are committed to maintaining a discrimination-free workplace in all aspects, terms and conditions of employment and welcome the unique contributions that you bring from education, opinions, culture, beliefs, race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, pregnancy, veteran status, and citizenship.