Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants is one of the fastest-growing firms in the insurance industry, headquartered in New York City. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead enterprise cross-functional initiatives, drive outcomes, and ensure value realization across complex projects within the new Project Management Office (ePMO).
Responsibilities
- Lead one or more complex enterprise, cross-functional initiatives from intake through stabilization and value realization
- Develop and maintain decision-ready delivery plans spanning scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, resourcing, and readiness checkpoints
- Independently manage interdependencies across initiatives, vendors, and operational teams
- Facilitate structured forums, governance reviews, and decision checkpoints to maintain momentum and alignment
- Proactively surface delivery risks, tradeoffs, and resource constraints with recommended paths forward
- Partner with Business Owners to clarify success criteria, adoption expectations, and readiness requirements
- Ensure appropriate business representation and engagement throughout delivery
- Reinforce that the business owns: Process design decisions, Adoption and change readiness, Post–go-live benefit realization
- Coach stakeholders on enterprise delivery expectations and governance standards
- Ensure initiatives entering the ePMO pipeline are complete, well-formed, and decision-ready
- Support standardized intake, scoring, prioritization, and funding workflows
- Maintain high-quality, executive-ready artifacts including: Charters and scope summaries, Status and health reporting, Risk, issue, and dependency tracking, Options, tradeoffs, and decision support materials
- Lead or support quarterly portfolio and governance reviews with clear, concise reporting and recommendations
- Embed change management considerations into delivery from day one
- Partner with business teams and enablement resources to ensure stakeholder readiness, training and communications planning, and complete operational handoffs
- Lead business readiness checkpoints prior to go-live and reinforce accountability for adoption
- Define adoption and success measures and validate progress post–implementation
- Partner with Finance and Business Owners to ensure success metrics are defined, measurable, and tracked
- Track post–go-live outcomes against agreed-upon objectives and expected benefits
- Facilitate retrospectives focused on what improved enterprise capability and value, not just what shipped
- Contribute to the evolution of ePMO standards, templates, tooling, and best practices
- Promote responsible and practical use of AI and automation to improve delivery efficiency
- Identify opportunities where AI can support reporting, analysis, or intake quality
- Share emerging best practices to improve PMO maturity and decision support
Skills
- Strong project and change management skills and experience
- Insurance industry experience - preferably P&C experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, or related discipline
- 7+ years of experience leading enterprise, cross-functional initiatives with significant dependencies and stakeholder coordination
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently, manage risks and tradeoffs, and escalate with clear options and recommendations
- Demonstrated experience in governance, executive-ready reporting, business readiness, adoption planning, and value realization tracking
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, influence, and systems-thinking skills
- Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall delivery models
- Insurance, financial services, or other complex, matrixed organizations. P&C industry experience strongly preferred
- Formal PMO / Project Management experience preferred but not required
- Enterprise PMO or governance-based delivery environments preferred but not required
- Experience partnering with Finance and business leaders to define and track measurable outcomes
- PMP, Prosci, Lean, or similar certifications
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time off
- Managed PTO for salaried/exempt employees (personal time off without accruals or caps); 22 PTO days starting out for hourly/non-exempt employees; 12 company-observed paid holidays; 4 early-close days
- Generous leave time options: Paid parental leave, pregnancy disability and bonding leave, and organ donor/bone marrow donor leave
- Generous employee referral bonus program of $1,500 per hired referral
- Employee recognition programs for demonstrating EPICvalues plus additional employee recognition awards and programs (and trips!)
- Employee Resource Groups: Womens Coalition, EPIC Veterans Group
- Professional growth & development: Mentorship Program, Tuition Reimbursement Program, Leadership Development
- Unique benefits such as Pet Insurance, Identity Theft & Fraud Protection Coverage, Legal Planning, Family Planning, and Menopause & Midlife Support
- Additional benefits include (but are not limited to): 401(k) matching, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, and wellness & employee assistance programs
- 50/50 Work Culture: EPIC fosters a 50/50 culture between producers and the rest of the business, supporting collaboration, teamwork, and an inclusive work environment. It takes both production and service to be EPIC!
- EPIC Gives Back Some of our charitable efforts include Donation Connection, Employee Assistance Fund, and People First Foundation
Company Overview
We are a unique and innovative retail risk management and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm founded in San Francisco, California, in 2007 with offices and leadership across the country. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.edgewoodins.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 4 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.