Beacon Technologies is seeking a Program Manager (Digital Transformation) for our client partner. Manage productive relationships with assigned business units, operations and transformation leaders to analyze operational, financial and project/portfolio data as needed to support the planning and implementation of transformation initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Effectively lead and support Transformation programs and projects to achieve defined business outcomes. Create or participate in a high performing team of business, IT and third-party stakeholders as needed to initiate, design, and deliver people, process and technology solutions.
• Create strong partnerships with business leaders in functional groups and serve as their primary point of contact. Provide advice regarding operational and financial implications of business activities and make recommendations to strategically enhance Company performance.
• Provide a framework to support strategic initiatives evaluation.
• Deliver effective decision-making by gathering and analyzing complex operational and financial information, identifying and bridging information gaps and then presenting implications and innovative solutions to senior management
• Seek to learn assigned business function, processes and systems. Demonstrate strong business acumen and leadership to drive results, remove execution barriers and anticipate and manage program / project risks.
• Demonstrate financial management discipline by leading the development of quality business cases/funding requests, including benefit commitments, overall project costs and contingency.
• Monitor the project budget, providing updated monthly forecasts and communicating potential budget overruns.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external team members and other stakeholders by communicating regularly, clarifying inquiries and jointly resolving issues to minimize risk, meeting key project milestones and ensuring alignment to objectives.
• Escalate project risks and issues appropriately; develop, implement and track reasonable mitigation plans.
• Prepare and deliver presentations appropriate for audiences at varying levels (including executive level) with logical reasoning and data support.
• Partner with internal Project Governance organization in applying project management principles to ensure proper governance, consistency in implementation and smooth transition between phases.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience: 7 years relevant experience.

Preferred Competencies/Skills

• Navigate organizational structure by networking and building relationships among multiple business units.
• Negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups.
• Analyze risks, benefits and opportunities to ensure organizational competitiveness and satisfaction of established long-range objectives.
• Manage multiple projects or responsibilities concurrently and effectively.
• Clarify and instruct others on aligning job roles and tasks with performance goals and department and organizational objectives.
• Manage and prioritize competing responsibilities concurrently and effectively.
• Understand the needs and goals of a customer and actively look for ways to meet them.
• High degree of comfort accurately analyzing and consolidating data in a coherent and presentable format for varying levels of an organization.
• Demonstrate and apply financial and business acumen.
• High attention to detail.
• Anticipate obstacles, estimate time and resources needed for the completion of a project; escalate issues appropriately when necessary.
• Use multiple resources to gather and analyze information and use logic and insightful judgement to address work-related issues and problems.
• Adapt and be flexible in a complex changing environment.
• Clearly and confidently convey information appropriately to various audiences through speech and writing.
• Observe and evaluate the outcome of a project and interpret the results and their implications.
• Work effectively under pressure; develop and adhere to deadlines.
• Motivational, inspirational and enthusiastic approach to team leading and management.
• Provide vision; think creatively and innovatively; support new or better ways of doing things.
• Analyze the current state and desired future state and determine how to bridge the gap.
• Influence and collaborate with people at different levels within the organization to accomplish a common goal.

Experience:

• Outsourcing models and processes.
• Supplier management.
• Global financial and legal understanding of complex contracts.
• Experience in Insurance or related field with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Strategic planning.
• Project management.
• Management consulting experience or experience working as internal consultant within a company.

Preferred Knowledge:

• Insurance knowledge strongly preferred, i.e., Strong knowledge of policies, practices, trends, technology and information affecting the insurance industry.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Working knowledge of financial analysis and financial modeling.

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.