Junior Project Manager

Position Summary:

Under the direction of a senior Business Engineer and/or a Portfolio Program Manager, this position focuses on executing the organization's operations and alignment with the Verisk’s strategic goals, while driving improvement, understanding, and results.

The Project Manager is the trusted advisor who will work with many cross-functional teams and leaders to communicate, align resources, and establish metric-driven goals to ensure Verisk’s long-term success and growth plans. This position helps integrate strategy and execution across the enterprise and within specific divisions as well act as a client focused leader with a growth mindset across a matrixed organization, working in close collaboration with stakeholders. Develop a trusted advisor relationship with the business, facilitate discussion, and provide recommendations to leadership as appropriate.

Responsibilities, Work Details and Deliverables:

• Excel in addressing and managing the expectations of varied stakeholder personalities with diverse management and leadership styles; be responsive to those expectations by flexing, facilitating, and incorporating feedback as appropriate.
   
• In close collaboration with stakeholders, help to define success criteria for assigned projects and report on success criteria results and metrics.
   
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with various stakeholders, including executives, managers, and IT teams, to ensure alignment with business objectives.
   
• Leveraging best agile practices, work within project management tools (including, but not limited to, Sharepoint and MS Teams, Planview), and provide ad hoc statistics on projects as requested by leadership.
   
• Support and identify interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
   
• Help defining and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the success of business initiatives. Effectively communicating business architecture concepts and strategies to diverse audiences. Helps define scope and establishes standards and best practices for team's deliverables and develops relationships within organization.
   
• Support the business architecture practice and its governance, maintaining standards and best practices for team's deliverables and develops relationships within our organization.
   
• Help to collect information on our business and map domains (including capabilities, value streams, information, and organization) according to the business architecture framework to gain insights.
   
• Evaluating data and information flows to ensure accurate decision-making and reporting.
   
• Technology Integration: Help assessing and integrating technology solutions to support business needs.
   
• Maintain documentation related to business processes, systems, and architecture. Identifying and mitigating risks associated with business changes and ensuring compliance with regulations.
   
• Analyzing and designing efficient business processes to improve productivity and effectiveness.
   
• Identifies opportunities for improvement in the form of cost savings, process improvements, or technology consolidation by levering capabilities in new way. Process Improvement experience and/or certification ideal.
   
• Continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices.

Moreover: 

• Managing the transition from current to future state, including assessing impacts and implementing change management strategies.

• Project Management: Knowledge of basic project management principles to support initiatives. 1-3 years of project management experience on projects within a matrix environment.
   
• Business acumen: Understand the organization's goals, strategy, and industry trends. Experience with product management and leadership, with preference given to those with exposure to the property and casualty insurance industry.
   
• Communication: Effective written and verbal communication to convey complex ideas to various stakeholders. Best-in-class communication skills (written, verbal and presentation), along with excellent negotiation, facilitation, consultative, and interpersonal ability.
   
• Problem Solving: Analytical thinking to identify and solve business challenges. A drive for results and demonstrated accountability for planning and executing on business needs.
   
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing business environments. Ability to work under pressure; thrives in stressful or demanding conditions that may arise within assigned projects. Ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve business objectives.
   
• Continuous Learning: Keeping up with evolving business and technology trends.
   
• Strategic Thinking: Support alignment of business architecture with long-term goals.
   
• Collaboration: Working effectively within cross-functional teams.
   
• Presentation Skills: Ability to create compelling presentations and reports.
   
• Process Modeling & Data Analysis: Experience in modeling and documenting business processes and ability to analyze and interpret data to inform business decisions.
   
• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating business risks.
   
• Ethical Decision-Making: Maintaining high ethical standards in business practices.
   
• Legal and Regulatory Awareness: Basic understanding of relevant laws and regulations.

Moreover: 

• English at minimum C1 level spoken and written 
• Willingness & eligibility to work as a full-time employee in a hybrid model from the Cracow-based office.
• PMP or professional project management or  Agile certification would be a strong asset.

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed. 

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland.  We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority.  In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong.  We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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