Project Manager

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Project Manager is accountable for orchestrating end-to-end delivery across teams, ensuring work is aligned to outcomes and flows efficiently through the system. This role facilitates decision-making, manages dependencies, and adapts plans in response to changing conditions. The Project Manager operates as a connector across stakeholders, enabling clarity, coordination, and progress toward business value.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

This role requires a minimum of 5 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Ensure initiatives are aligned to clearly defined outcomes and success criteria
• Translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans
• Continuously validate that execution aligns to intended value

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Orchestrate sequencing of work across teams and functions
• Manage dependencies, capacity constraints, and bottlenecks proactively
• Adapt plans and priorities based on evolving conditions and insights

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Surface tradeoffs and options (scope, time, cost, value) clearly
• Facilitate team-level decision-making and escalation paths
• Balance governance with flow to enable timely decisions

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align stakeholders across business and technology functions
• Manage expectations through transparency of progress and risks
• Facilitate communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution

Minimum Qualifications

• 5–9 years of experience managing cross-functional projects end-to-end
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry
• Proven ability to deliver outcomes (not just outputs) in a dynamic environment
• Strong capability in dependency management, sequencing, and flow optimization
• Demonstrated experience facilitating decisions and managing tradeoffs
• Experience operating across multiple delivery approaches (Agile, hybrid, predictive)
• Ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders
• Strong communication skills translating complex topics into actionable insights
• PMP or equivalent experience preferred; evidence of delivering measurable outcomes required

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!