Program Manager

Generali is a major player in the global insurance industry – a strategic and highly important sector for the growth, development and welfare of modern societies. Over almost 200 years, we have built a multinational Group that is present in more than 60 countries, with 470 companies and nearly 80,000 employees.

GOSP - Generali Operations Service Platform is a joint-venture between Generali and Accenture and provides IT and Procurement services to Generali Group companies. Our purpose is to accelerate the Group's innovation and digitization strategy through the Cloud and shared platforms. Based in Italy, it has 5 branches across Europe and employs about 1,000 people.

The candidate will be part of the team in charge of the creation of the new GOSP Delivery Center focused on the provisioning of a core insurance solution at Group level. Such initiative is highly strategic and requires a team of professionals able to guide it from a managerial and operational point of view, acting as agents of the transformation.

We are looking for a Program Manager who will be responsible for planning and governance and for overseeing the successful delivery of the program’s output/product, coordinating the projects and their interdependencies and stakeholders.

Main Responsibilities:

• Project monitoring (timing, costs, quality and risks)
• Coordination of the activities among different work groups involved in the operative activities (IT, business, operations team, supplier, …)
• Organization and management of project meetings with the different business functions involved
• Drafting and management of the various level reporting also if to be addressed to the top management
• Project resource allocation management
• Proactive monitoring of the status review, analysis of deviations and definition of eventual corrective actions
• Management of the relationship with other ongoing projects and evidence of impacts, support in the contingency solution detection

Requirements:

• Knowledge about Project Management methodologies (e.g., PMI, Agile) and proven experience
• Mastering MS Office (Excel, Project, Word, Powerpoint)
• Fluent in English
• Preferable knowledge of a second language (i.e., ES, DE)
• Expertise in international transformation programs
• Preferable expertise in the insurance domain

Skills:

• Outstanding communication and relational skills
• Strong goal driven mindset, initiative, autonomy and proactivity
• Analytical, synthetical and presentational skills
• Special capabilities in complex problems solving
• Teamwork orientation

Additional Information:

• Contract Type: Permanent