Project Manager

Description:

Echelon Insurance, part of the CAA Club Group of Companies, delivers personal and commercial specialty insurance solutions across Canada through a trusted broker network. With a purpose-driven, award-winning culture, Echelon Insurance promotes collaboration, trust, and growth, providing employees with work-life harmony, robust learning programs, and competitive benefits.

As a Project Manager (ECH-ON), you will lead and manage end-to-end project initiatives, collaborating closely with business teams, IT, and other stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and delivery of projects. You will play a pivotal role in project planning, requirements gathering, execution, and monitoring to ensure strategic objectives are met.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop project initiation documents including business cases and project charters.

• Lead business analysis activities to gather and document project requirements, scope, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.

• Define key performance indicators, objectives, and key results to measure project outcomes.

• Initiate and manage business project workstreams for successful implementation.

• Plan and organize projects using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies.

• Coordinate with corporate communications, training, and other departments for organizational change management.

• Sequence activities across all project phases, gather estimates, and secure commitment from teams on deliverables and milestones.

• Monitor project schedule performance and implement corrective actions as needed.

• Allocate resources effectively and manage daily project activities.

• Track and monitor costs against the project budget.

• Identify stakeholders and establish appropriate communication methods.

• Provide regular updates to sponsors, stakeholders, and steering committees.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field.

• 3–5 years of relevant project management experience.

• Experience delivering medium to large projects in financial services or other fast-paced corporate environments.

• Proficiency with Guidewire insurance software.

• Strong skills in project planning and collaboration tools (Microsoft 365, Jira, etc.).

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or Agile certification (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe) is an asset.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to present professionally to leaders.

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Strong understanding of technology concepts with ability to bridge business and technical teams.