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For more than 125 years, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has been delivering exceptional property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses and individuals around the world.

Today, we are the 11th largest property and casualty insurer in the United States and have a worldwide network of some 120 offices in 27 countries staffed by 10,400 employees. The Chubb Corporation reported $48 billion in assets and $13.2 billion in revenues in 2008. According to Fortune magazine, Chubb is the 203rd largest U.S.-based corporation. The magazine also includes Chubb in its list of “America’s Most Admired Companies.” Forbes listed Chubb as one of America’s 400 Best Big Companies.

Chubb has maintained its reputation and financial stability with underwriting expertise, unparalleled customer service, unique industry-specific specialization and a deep respect for all of our employees.

Currently, Chubb is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager for the Whitehouse Station, NJ office.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Sr. IT Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of one or more, medium to large sized, and moderately to highly complex projects, which often require high levels of functional and or business unit integration. They are also responsible for the operational aspects including, but not limited to system maintenance, release, planned and unplanned production support. He/she must understand the system scope and project objectives to achieve project needs through matrix management and collaboration with resource, process and budget management. This position will interface with all areas affected by the project including project stakeholders, consultants/vendors, and enterprise wide centers of excellence. They will provide Project Management mentoring / coaching to fellow Project Management resources.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Demonstrates the ability to manage multiple projects and to influence to a positive outcome without escalation. May include interaction with different stakeholders across the enterprise, or may involve interaction with business stakeholders.
• Works with process management on the coordination and reporting of applicable project level metrics.
• May be responsible for business relationship management and for influencing business partner requests and decisions through strong negotiation skills, and provide valued managerial expertise that support established standards (e.g., process, architectural, development, quality).
• Manages business sponsorship expectations, understanding business drivers and, when required, negotiates changes to project scope, timing or resources to ensure that strategic solutions are delivered.
• Develops and executes detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports, issue management and risk mitigation. May include interaction with different stakeholders across the enterprise, or may involve interaction with business stakeholders.
• Works with process management on the coordination and reporting of applicable project level metrics.
• Through matrix management, is responsible for execution and delivery of projects through adherence to all IT project standards, defining and managing the project through the SDLC (i.e. Project Path) and associated IT processes (i.e. Building Permit, CUPID).
• Ensures SOX compliance for all project related work.
• Responsible for deploying projects on time, with quality, within budget, and as per specification (adhering to architectural design), effectively monitoring project risks, employing mitigation strategies where appropriate.
• Responsible for working with managers across the functional areas (Business Partner, Architecture Services , Development and Business Systems Support Services) to identify the appropriate project resources needed, assembling the project team, assigning individual responsibilities, and developing a schedule to ensure timely completion of project.
• Ensures that project team roles and project expectations are clearly communicated to all stakeholders including business subject matter experts and end users.
• Effectively manages the project team, demonstrating the ability to coach, mentor and positively influence others, providing timely feedback to individuals and resource managers.
• Participate in Business Unit and Chubb-wide project management working groups and activities to stay current on the latest project management solutions and to ensure the proposed project management processes, tools and metrics are aligned to the current and future Corporate IT objectives.
• Build and maintain an understanding of business processes and products across the Business Unit, establishing strong working relationships with counterparts across the functional areas.


RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree or Commensurate Experience
• 8-14 years of experience in technology, business, management or project leadership (experience in the Financial Services industry a plus)
• 5+ years project management experience
• Strong experience managing in a matrix environment
• Excellent project management skills, including ability to execute and prioritize a number of tasks simultaneously, and experience managing cross-functional teams.
• Proven financial management experience
• Demonstrated experience in project management and/or team leadership with high quality (i.e. proven track record)
• Results oriented and analytical with the ability to lead others
• Innovative, flexible and adaptable
• Excellent understanding of IT environments/technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication, relationship management, interpersonal, conflict and negotiation skills
• PMI or PMP certification strongly desired

Chubb prides itself on the ability to provide all employees with an extraordinary work environment which promotes teamwork, diversity and incentives for those who exceed expectations. Chubb has been recognized as one of the top 50 companies for diversity by DiversityInc magazine, one of America’s most admired companies by Forbes, and one of the top 100 companies to work for by Fortune.

Chubb's compensation and benefit plans work together to create a Total Rewards Program for our employees that is among the best in our industry. As a global organization, we work hard to achieve our goal of providing flexible and competitive compensation and benefits packages in each local market in which we operate. Our goal is to exceed average market practices for our performers. For more information about Chubb and our benefits, visit our website at www.chubb.com.

All interested applicants must apply online at www.chubb.apply2jobs.com Reference Requisition number 8183.

http://www.chubb.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=8183&CurrentPage=2

Chubb & Son, Inc., a division of Federal Insurance Company, does not accept resumes from unsolicited third party agencies or recruiters. No fees will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates in this manner.

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