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Project Manager

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments

All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you're directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary: This is the second level in a four level career path. This position is responsible for developing project management knowledge and skills; applying project tools and techniques in order to manage small to medium project activities. Project activities include, but are not limited to, establishing clear and achievable objectives and planning and directing people to reach objectives while balancing competing demands for quality, scope, time, and cost, and adapting to different concerns and expectations of stakeholders.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Project Management:
• Delivers results for small to mid-size project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
• Utilizes basic project management skills and the corporate standard system development methodology (or other industry methodology) to manage assigned projects.
• Consults with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives and scope.
• Identifies resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
• Develops and implements communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks and timely delivery of initiative results. Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others.
• Ensures business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.
• Oversees business requirements to meet expected business solutions and trace delivery of requirements through testing to final implementation, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, as needed.
• Manages project quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining approvals, and taking corrective action when necessary, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, if applicable.
• Ensures that project documentation is complete, current and Knowledge Managed (KM) appropriately.
• Proactively identifies barriers and resolves issues, determining contingency plans (executing as needed), while mitigating risk. Escalates issues to appropriate audiences for awareness and/or additional support.
• Leadership:
• Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current projects/deliverables, with additional guidance as needed.
• Promotes the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to change imposed by others.
• Organizes and directs the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time. Ensures that project member's time and experience is well utilized. Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
• Shares project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management skills.

Job Specifications:

• Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree with three years of project management or systems analysis experience.
• Working knowledge/understanding of the corporate methodology and a broad understanding/awareness of other methodologies.
• Solid knowledge of logical data model/management.
• Solid understanding of Unum's products and businesses preferred.
• Solid ability to work effectively in a dynamic, rapidly changing business and technical environment.
• Effectively uses technical project management tools.
• Has initiative and ability to set stretch goals.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate effectively with business and IT partners on business requirements and timeframes on small initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to rally support among peers and work effectively within challenging situations.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to balance the need to gather detail with the need to solve the problem.
• Solid general management skills including:
• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Facilitation and elicitation skills
• Solid consultative advisory skills.
• Proven ability to effectively articulate difficult ideas and concepts through clear and concise verbal and/or written communication.
• Solid ability to identify and apply different communication mediums based on a content and audience at all levels (both internal and external to Unum) to achieve intended goal.
• Solid PC skills required (Excel, Power Point, Word, etc.)

Company: Unum