Project Manager/PMO (Insurance)

Job Description - Project Manager/PMO (Insurance)

Exp - 14+ Years

CTC - Upto 40 LPA

Immediate joiner

Location - Mumbai & Pune

Grade - P1

Seeking a Project Manager/PMO with 15+ years of experience delivering medium-to-large insurance technology or transformation programmes. The role covers planning, governance, stakeholder management, risk control, reporting, and delivery within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality standards.

• Lead insurance projects across policy administration, underwriting, claims, billing, distribution, servicing, and regulatory change.
• Own integrated plans for scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, quality, and releases.
• Track progress, analyse variances, and drive corrective actions.
• Manage RAID, changes, decisions, actions, and cross-team dependencies through closure.
• Provide dashboards and executive updates on schedule, cost, scope, quality, resources, risks, defects, and KPIs.
• Coordinate business, product, architecture, development, testing, operations, vendors, and compliance teams.
• Run governance forums, project reviews, and lessons-learned sessions; maintain project documentation.
• Ensure compliance with delivery, security, audit, privacy, regulatory, and quality standards.
• Support resource planning, vendor coordination, financial tracking, invoicing, and closure.

• Bachelor s degree in engineering, technology, business, management, or a related field.
• Experience managing medium-to-large IT or transformation projects in life, general, health, or commercial insurance.
• Strong knowledge of project management, SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery.
• Expertise in scheduling, estimation, budget control, governance, reporting, and executive dashboards.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Jira, AWS, Confluence, Excel, or equivalent tools.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, distributed teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, facilitation, communication, and leadership skills.

• Define PMO governance, standards, templates, stage gates, and delivery controls.
• Consolidate portfolio dashboards, executive reports, milestones, and KPIs.
• Maintain portfolio RAID, dependency, change, decision, and action logs.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, accruals, invoicing, and reconciliation.
• Manage capacity, demand, utilisation, onboarding, timesheets, and allocation.
• Oversee vendor SOWs, deliverables, SLAs, compliance, and performance reviews.
• Prepare steering packs, facilitate governance meetings, and track decisions and actions.
• Conduct health checks, audit-readiness reviews, quality assurance, and benefits tracking.
• Improve PMO processes through standardisation, lessons learned, and reporting automation.

PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification preferred. Exposure to insurance platforms, digital transformation, cloud migration, data, or regulatory programmes is advantageous.

On-time, on-budget delivery; accurate reporting; timely risk and issue closure; controlled scope; stakeholder satisfaction; and achievement of agreed business and quality outcomes.