Strategy Projects Team Coordinator - Project Manager

Summary of Responsibilities:

The Strategic Portfolio Team Coordinator & Project Manager provides day-to-day project management, operational and strategic support based upon project priorities. This individual acts as a liaison between Business, IT, Consultant and Vendor workstreams to coordinate complex/interdependent efforts and to ensure the team delivers against its goals on-time and exceeding our end consumer’s expectations. The Coordinator will also identify and escalate risks and concerns by suggesting mitigation plans and leading resolution management.

Principal Responsibilities:

This role's primary responsibilities are to support the team Manager and Director in administering and tracking the progress of projects and initiatives to meet all established milestones, maintain superior quality levels and ensure alignment between strategic vision and program goals.  The Strategic Portfolio Team Coordinator & Project Manager communicates across teams, supports the development of detailed documentation, serves as a facilitator during workshops, writes detailed program-wide communications and builds collaborative relationships to accelerate issue management.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Serving as an interface between workstream leads and project management team including contributing to program strategy, goal and objective setting.
• Supporting the team manager and director in developing detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
• Participating in the execution of the comprehensive and integrated program plans, including advising on program implementation strategies and objectives and providing support to change management activities.
• Serving as a workstream liaison by tracking and facilitating a portfolio of activities for updating/building needed functions for projects including:
  o Supporting budget management
  o Tracking overall and workstream status and milestones
• Providing regular updates including escalating important, strategic decisions, project status and the application/analysis of internal and/or vendor technologies.
• Serving as a workstream accelerator by joining team members in deep-dive analyses and supporting the delivery of time critical activities
• Facilitating communication across workstreams by supporting the development of detailed scope, business requirement and functional requirement documents including the dissemination of program-wide communications (oral and written).
• Leading and facilitating discussions and workshops between business/IT teams to drive rapid decisions and to ensure they are communicated across impacted teams and stakeholders
• Coordinating cross-discipline resources to address program challenges and identifying opportunities to streamline operations.

Job Requirements

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies Required:

• Bachelor Degree and 5+ years of related work experience or Masters Degree with 3+ years of related work experience
• Strong project management, organizational effectiveness, and operations experience
• Experience as a project team member (or lead) with responsibility for developing and executing significant projects/solutions and taking ownership of key deliverables
• Analytical and management capabilities including understanding business metrics and key product indicators
• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts with the capability to influence diverse teams of individuals without holding direct authority
• Expert relationship building and collaboration at all organizational levels
• Knowledge of establishing clear policies, processes, and guidelines
• Intermediate level financial management capabilities
• Intermediate level technology capabilities including Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Visio

In connection with this open position, MetLife will only consider job applicants who are legally authorized to work in the United States without an employer-sponsored petition for a visa, such as an H-1B visa.  It will not file any visa applications in connection with this position.

How to Apply

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