Program Manager

Project Management Leader

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today's challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies, we're the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Performs highly advanced project management activities with minimal guidance from leadership, in partnership with key stakeholders, applying considerable independent judgement and innovative completion strategies

Principle Duties :

• Applies expert knowledge of best practices, extensive project management experience, advanced domain knowledge and proven ability to solve complex problems and improve products, processes and services.
• Establishes expectations and communicates standards for effective project management across the project portfolio, including developing charters, plans, schedules, and budgets; allocating resources; monitoring performance against schedule, budget, and quality targets; managing changes, issues and risks; and providing regular communication to program teams, stakeholders, and other areas within the organization.
• Creates and manages program plans and all other well-known program controls and directs the work of other project managers. Anticipates risks and issues and provides complex mitigation strategies to successfully deliver complex solutions that extend beyond the department, division or region.
• Provides leadership and direction to other project management professionals and project team members to create and manage project plans and all other well-known project controls.
• Cultivates broad partnerships and applies advanced leadership strategies to develop sophisticated solutions and innovative strategies that improve products and services and deliver business value.
• Proactively monitors industry trends, client-facing new business, strategic business and technology initiatives across the organization. Develops insights, advocates for solutions and communicates ideas across the organization.
• Develops strategic plans to meet long term project commitments. Identifies assumptions, dependencies and constraints that may impact successful project execution and delivery of business objectives. Initiates cross functional discussions and provides creative solutions to business partners based on business knowledge, domain expertise and project management experience.
• Ensures organizational change management principles and proven practices are implemented across the program to assess change readiness and greatly influence a comprehensive change management strategy that will ensure adoption of delivered solutions and realization of expected benefits.
• May supervise or manage four or fewer employees, and responsible for team's performance; coaches and mentors team members

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What you can expect from RGA :

Compensation Range : $123,500.00 - $184,050.00 Annual Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.