Project Manager

Zurich is one of the world’s leading insurance groups, and one of the few to operate on a global basis. Our mission is to help our customers understand and protect themselves from risk. With about 53,000 employees serving customers in more than 170 countries, we aspire to become the best global insurer as measured by our shareholders, customers and employees. We help individuals, small and medium sized companies and global corporations around the world understand and protect themselves from risk by offering a wide range of insurance products, solutions and advisory services.

**Project Manager (M/F/d)**

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, overseeing and leading projects from ideation through completion.

This role requires interaction with a range of internal and external stakeholders, often managing various projects simultaneously that impact multiple departments within Zurich Eurolife.

**Your Role**

As a Project Manager your main responsibilities will be as follows:

- Actively and visibly lead the implementation of projects.
- Prepare project’s scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
- Manage planning, execution and closing of the project, ensuring the same is delivered on time and within budget.
- Establish and maintain deliverables via risk logs, action plans, or status reports to track as well as provide oversight on progress. Develop detailed projects’ schedule and timeline.
- Share advice and technical expertise. Validate the quality of deliverables and their adherence to business needs.
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties for efficient execution. Manage basic administration activities on the project management tools so that other stakeholders can also utilize it.
- Projects meetings orchestration: logistics, producing inputs and outputs. Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation.
- Identify and manage projects’ risks, issues and dependencies establishing contingency plans as needed.

**Your skills and experience**
- A university degree (bachelor level) or a higher professional education.
- 3 to 5 years of experience in project management, highly desirable within the Insurance industry as knowledge of the same is required for this role.
- Fluent in English is mandatory, any other language will be an asset
- Proven ability to multi-task and manage different projects simultaneously. Track record on projects’ delivery.
- Critical thinking with sense of accountability regarding quality of the project’s deliverables.
- Can work on his/her own, deal with ambiguity and deliver on tight deadlines.
- Ability to negotiate effectively and guide conversations to practical end points.
- Ability to take ownership for delivery, with a pragmatic and proactive approach.
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining focus on the bigger picture and the broad strategic challenges.
- Effective communicator with provable analytical and problem resolution skills.
- Willingness to contribute to the project deliverables would be an advantage.
- A team player, able to nurture and develop business relationships.

**We offer**
- Full-time position in our friendly and motivated team in Luxembourg
- International working environment
- Compensation packages to high standard market rates
- A high standard Group health insurance & Pension plan
- Flexible working policy to support your work life balance
- Career path and opportunities within Zurich Group
- Executive Managers whose doors are always open
- A work model based on transparency and recognition
- Training & Development for upskilling your future experience