Aon - Project Manager

Business Overview:

Work Description/Role Summary:

Role overview:

Aon Health & Benefits offer market-leading consulting, broking and delivery services to clients and their employees across organizations of all sizes, geographies and industries. These offerings include: end-to-end solutions to benefits management, alignment of your benefit plans with corporate strategy and policies, considerable purchasing leverage, systematic and structured approach

The Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of the project over the entire life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, close). They must be familiar with system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, to effectively coordinate the activities of the team. They must also be managing projects to improve operational efficiency and implementing continuous improvement activities to ensure projects meet and exceed Aon's and our clients' standards of service.

- Assist Implementation Manager in end-to-end delivery and execution of project initiatives and tasks as defined in the project plan and instructed by Implementation Manager to achieve project agreed goals working with project teams within agreed project timelines and project scope

- Manages changes to project scope and project scheduling using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the CO management plan

- Assists the Implementation Manager in ensuring a common understanding through settling and communicating expectations in accordance with project plan and project documentation, to all key stakeholders and team members

- Assists the Implementation Manager to measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques in order to monitor project performance; identifies and quantifies variances, performs and manages corrective actions and communicates accordingly

- Implements the approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk and impact across projects

- May be responsible for managing and gathering requirements, constraints, and assumptions with clients and / or key stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverables, using a variety of requirement gathering techniques

- Manage certain stakeholders in the project delivery chain, owning the project communication at internal Aon project levels at maybe client project level

- Responsible for project milestones and checkpoint criteria in accordance with Aon governance criteria

- Actively collaborates with project teams including virtual teams across Aon

- Participates in continuous improvement initiatives to increase project and process efficiency

- Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.

- Works to ensure loyalty and trust, handles oneself ethically following core values and beliefs.

- Works to improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.

Skills & Knowledge Requirements:

Mandatory Skills (Behavioral) :

Mandatory Skills (Specialized):

Good To Have :

- Demonstrable project management skills with experience of different types of project methodologies e.g. waterfall, agile etc, and tools e.g. MS project

- Ability to work on multiple projects at one time covering differing size and complexity to meet business requirements and deliver results

- Self-motivated individual with good organizational and interpersonal skills

- Logical thinker with good communication skills

- Results driven and able to take accountability for results with the ability to work well under pressure to provide deliverable results on time and to a high standard

- Demonstrates ability to think and act both strategically and operationally

- Good analytical capabilities, attention to detail and good execution capabilities

- Ability to tackle and navigate challenges to ensure project deliverables are met

- Comfortable working in a dynamic, creative organization

- Able to work independently at fast pace

- Minimum 2 years' experience in a project manager role

- Project Management qualification desirable e.g. Prince2 or PMP, but not necessarily mandatory

- Effective Business writing

Risk management experience, Prince2, PMP, Agile certification

Works with: - Small to large project teams and extensive interaction with internal and/or external clients.