Project Manager

Role: Project Manager

Location: Westfield Center, OH (Hybrid – 2/3 Days Onsite in a Week)

Type: Long Term Contract

Interview: Virtual

Pay Rate: $55.68/hr on W2

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead strategic and operational initiatives for a leading insurance client. The ideal candidate will combine strong business acumen with hands-on project delivery expertise, including roadmap planning, change management, financial planning, and stakeholder management. The role demands a proactive leader who can drive results in a complex, cross-functional, multi-vendor environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a strategic project roadmap, aligning project objectives with business priorities and long-term organizational goals.
• Lead end-to-end project execution—from initiation through delivery—ensuring milestones, deliverables, and quality targets are achieved.
• Oversee financial planning and project budgeting, including cost estimation, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Manage project financials by tracking budgets, controlling costs, and optimizing resource utilization to achieve business value.
• Partner with finance teams to ensure accurate reporting of project spend, ROI analysis, and benefit realization.
• Drive change management initiatives to ensure successful adoption of new systems, tools, and processes.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across business, technology, and operations teams, ensuring alignment and smooth delivery.
• Manage relationships across a multi-vendor ecosystem, ensuring coordinated execution and accountability.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project and financial risks, maintaining governance and compliance with internal and industry standards.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, financial reports, and progress summaries to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Support business case development, including cost-benefit analysis, scenario planning, and resource justification.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or Management
• 8+ years of experience in business project management, preferably within insurance, financial services, or consulting.
• Proven experience in project financial management—budget creation, monitoring, and financial reporting.
• Strong understanding of roadmap planning, change management, and stakeholder governance.
• Experience managing large-scale projects in a multi-vendor or matrixed organization.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency with project and financial management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Smartsheet, Power BI, Excel).
• PMP, Prince2, or Agile certification preferred.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.