Senior Project Manager – Des Moines Area (Hybrid)

With roots dating back to the 1800s, our Customer is a global professional services firm HQ’d in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. Today, they are a unique group of businesses with many enduring competitive advantages. Among them are the quality of their colleagues, deep client relationships, vast global footprint, depth of intellectual capital, and cohesive and collaborative culture.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager on a ~18-month contract basis to support our Customer’s business needs. This role is hybrid (3 days on-site and 2 days remote/week) in Urbandale, IA.

Please Note: This position is intended for candidates who are able and willing to commit to the full duration of the 18-month contract assignment. Our client is specifically seeking someone interested in a long-term contract opportunity rather than an FTE or contract-to-hire path. Candidates should be comfortable remaining on assignment through the anticipated project end date.

Reporting to the Project Lead, the Sr. Project Manager will manage and support key workstreams within a broader program, ensuring successful execution and delivery of transitions and integrations across people, process, technology, and real estate. This role will coordinate resources across multiple locations, partner with senior stakeholders, and independently drive objectives to completion. The ideal candidate will have experience leading major change initiatives and a proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects.

Responsibilities:

1. Project Management and Support

• Communicates to key management colleagues and team members the multiple project activities which need to be accomplished across regions or functions.
• Prioritize, and manage multiple projects and programs.
• Selects and utilizes project implementation documentation including implementation toolkits and migration schedules.
• Supports the facilitation of project by escalating risk and its impact on business initiatives to management within the organization. 40%

2. Provide strategic support for the portfolio of work:

• Designs and creates strategic documents such as Project Business cases, Assessments, Communication plans and detailed project plans. Presents project updates and makes presentations to senior level management within Finance
• Provide support and leads in the decision-making process that is required for progress on assigned programs / projects. Helps facilitate problem solving and decision making on key project items. 40%

3. Support of work stream controls and compliance

• Proactively follows and adheres to project controls for assigned projects
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues; manages project/program deliverables, manages and mitigates risk, escalate issues to management, and ensure change control process for assigned projects and programs across functions are functioning and aligned.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading major change initiatives and large-scale project delivery
• Strong program and project management capabilities across multiple workstreams
• Ability to manage geographically dispersed teams and resources
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with senior leadership
• Strong strategic planning and documentation skills
• Strong risk management, compliance, and governance experience
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives effectively
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive projects to completion with minimal direction

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disabilities.