Regional Project Manager jobs in Des Moines, IA

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 contract Lead Project Manager to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is onsite in Urbandale, IA.

Reponsibilities

• Manages highly complex, broad, and/or multi-year projects end-to-end to deliver business outcomes, ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to a high level of client satisfaction.
• Develops detailed, robust, high-quality project plans including resources, scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, etc. for large scale, complex projects.
• Significantly recognizes the impact of even the slightest scope changes and how that may affect tasks and assignments in the future, and adjusts project plans and communicates accordingly.
• Acts as the first responder to risk, exposures, glitches etc. to projects and acts quickly either directly or by notifying supervisors or potential pitfalls and recommends solutions.
• Works closely within high visibility projects, and regularly interfaces with internal senior management and client executive level personnel, as well as identifies global subject matter experts on the project at hand.
• Negotiates resource requirements with responsible management when faced with conflicts in priorities.
• Assists in the exploration of intricate solutions to highly complex business requirements for project.
• Serves as the subject matter expert in the project functionality being provided, the business domain being served, and the project planning tools used.
• Delegates work to and guides professional and support staff, ensuring adherence to departmental standards and procedures.
• Reviews, mentors, and coaches lower level professional and support staff.
  
  

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.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

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 disability.