Head of Project Management

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**Job Description**:
**About this job**:
An expert Project Manager with 10 + years of project management experience, strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of the business, and the ability to lead project management, and drive large, complex projects to successful execution, ensuring that business objectives are realized.

**Location**:

- Zurich, Paris or Dublin

**Governance**
- Lead L&H PMO. Management of L&H BU project management governance framework, portfolio of projects, including overall budgeting, tracking and reporting to key stakeholders across L&H and PartnerRe
- Project Management center of excellence (CoE) for the L&H BU
- Maintain project management processes and methodologies. Look for opportunities for continuous improvements to ensure relevance with best practices, and ensure these are aligned with other project management offices within PartnerRe

**Project Management**
- Senior Project Manager for the L&H division responsible for providing project management leadership on large, complex projects with global reach. Responsible for leading, overseeing and ensuring effective project delivery
- Plan and execute projects, including managing scope, requirement changes, multiple and competing demands and priorities as well as determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics/ assumptions
- Facilitate and perform business process design/re-engineering and lead process implementation
- Develop and deliver communications for projects (including status reports) and special topics to leadership (senior management, ELT and CEO), internal stakeholders, vendors, project team and L&H employees
- Facilitate efficient and effective communication with other program/project managers and stakeholders
- Provide training and guidance to stakeholders within the Life & Health business unit and PartnerRe on Project Management methodology, processes and tools as required

**Competencies/ Experience required**
- University degree (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- Strong project management skills with 10 + years of project management experience
- Experience in the L&H reinsurance and or life insurance industry with a good understanding of the operations
- Knowledge and experience in L&H reinsurance process design and implementation
- Project Management Professional (PMP) designation or relevant experience
- Excellent verbal and written English skills. French and German language knowledge would be beneficial

**Qualifications**:
**About you**:

- A business partner who can take on a wide range of business challenges and deliver coordinated and agreed solutions through the ability to problem-solve, conduct structured thinking and analysis
- Leads with integrity, passion and sense of accountability; willingness to go the extra mile
- Able to be involved in and contribute to the business content
- Ability to handle multiple and conflicting priorities in an interdisciplinary, collaborative and multi-cultural environment
- Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills to work with a variety of stakeholders and senior leaders across the organization
- Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution and consensus building skills
- Highest degree of professional ethics
- Experience working in virtual teams
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and lead/ influence others to achieve goals

Additional Information

PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees