Project Manager

Project Manager Valuation Services, Mercer

Location: Louisville, KY or USA Remote

Mercer is seeking a Project Manager to manage complex projects to deliver business outcomes ensuring that projects are complete on time, within budget and to a high level of client satisfaction.

What can you expect?

• Work in a fast-paced environment
• Produce data for our consulting team

What is in it for you?

• Career Growth in a company where performance is rewarded with new opportunities
• Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and programs including: health and welfare, tuition assistance, 401K, employee assistance program, domestic partnership benefits, career mobility, employee network groups, volunteer opportunities, and other programs
• High visibility internally and externally

We will count on you to:

• Establish and manage an appropriate project governance structure, and manages all project stakeholders and project team members in the successful delivery of the project, including managing their tasks, project workload, and deadlines
• Ensure comprehensive scope document is in place at the start of the project, and continuously reviews the scope document as the project progresses and suggests changes of scope, as appropriate.
• Actively manage all project risks and issues, and ensures Lessons Learned on projects are shared with colleagues and recommendations adopted are implemented.
• Liaise with other areas in the organization to secure specialized resources and contributions for the project.
• Provide accurate and timely cost estimates for project work where requested, together with providing regular reporting on project fees and discuss any fee issues.
• Interact and communicate effectively with project teams, third party providers, clients, etc.
• Provide technical support and input to the Manager on project proposals of average to difficult complexity
• Research and provide recommendations on new best practice standards

What you need to have:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline
• 5 years or more experience as project manager in pension or wealth management industry
• Prior experience in client/relationship building/management
• Solid communications skills, both verbal and written
• Be resourceful
• Flexible

At Mercer, we make a difference in the lives of more than 110 million people every day by advancing their health, wealth, and careers. We are in the business of creating more secure and rewarding futures for our clients and their employees whether we are designing affordable health plans, assuring income for retirement or aligning workers with workforce needs. Using analysis and insights as catalysts for change, we anticipate and understand the individual impact of business decisions, now and in the future. We see people's current and future needs through a lens of innovation, and our holistic view, specialized expertise, and deep analytical rigor underpin each idea and solution we offer. For more than 70 years, we have turned our insights into actions, enabling people around the globe to live, work, and retire well. We embrace a culture that celebrates and promotes the many backgrounds, heritages and perspectives of our colleagues and clients. At Mercer, we say we Make Tomorrow, Today. Visit www.mercer.com for more information, follow us on LinkedIn, and Twitter @Mercer

Marsh & McLennan Companies offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and programs including health and welfare, tuition assistance, 401K, employee assistance program, domestic partnership benefits, career mobility, employee network groups, volunteer opportunities, and other programs. For more information about our company, please visit us at http://www.mmc.com/. We embrace a culture that celebrates and promotes the many backgrounds, heritages and perspectives of our colleagues and clients. For more information, please visit us at: www.mmc.com/diversity.

Mercer LLC and its separately incorporated operating entities around the world are part of Marsh & McLennan Companies, a publicly held company (ticker symbol: MMC).

Marsh & McLennan Companies and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.