Project Manager, Business Operations

Role: Project Manager

Location: Farmington, Boston, New York
Department: Business Operations

Position Summary

Allied World seeks an individual to serve in the role of Project Manager to support the ongoing management of North America underwriting platforms. This role will assist in coordinating initiatives, tracking progress, and ensuring smooth communication between underwriting, technology teams, and operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Project Management
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to modernize underwriting platforms, aligning technology capabilities with evolving business and regulatory requirements
• Drive enterprise-wide transformation efforts by facilitating planning, communication, and adoption of new underwriting tools and workflows
• Partner with Stakeholders and Senior Leadership to refine strategy and build alignment on approach
• Forward‑thinking problem solver who recognizes gaps, proposes solutions, and mobilizes teams to deliver results
• Conduct capacity and resource planning to ensure teams are aligned and adequately staffed
• Recognize and escalate issues that occur during project execution by tracking action items, risks, and dependencies across cross functional teams

• Process & Documentation
• Champion organizational adoption by directing training coordination, communication strategy, and readiness activities across impacted teams
• Maintain project artifacts, meeting notes, requirements documents, issue logs, etc.
• Leverage and maintain knowledge documentation in Jira, Confluence, or other project management tools
• Report on project metrics including progress, resource utilization, risks and issues
• Work closely with Underwriting, technology, and vendor partners to support business requirements gathering and testing
• Take end‑to‑end leadership of cross‑functional meetings, driving alignment, decision‑making, and follow‑through.
• Identify and deliver on opportunities for continuous process improvement

Compensation:

The below annualized base pay range is a broad range based on analysis of similar positions in the market.  The actual base pay for the position may be above or below the listed range and determined by a number of considerations, including but not limited to complexity, location, and scope of the role, along with experience, skills, education, training, and other conditions of employment.  Base salary represents one component of Allied World’s comprehensive total reward package, which may also include annual incentive compensation rewards.

 $95,000 - $105,000

Qualifications

• Education, Skills, and Experience
• Knowledge of Professional Liability and Property & Casualty products and processes
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in product delivery within commercial insurance
• Strong PowerPoint skills, with experience translating complex information into clear visuals
• Prior experience in underwriting systems implementation, management, and change support
• Project leadership using Agile methodology, with hands-on experience using tools like Jira
• History of successfully delivering complex projects with measurable business outcomes
• Ability to translate insurance business needs into technology requirements
• Experience managing release cycles, issue tracking and vendors
• Strong communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Industry relevant certifications a plus

Allied World

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions. We operate under the brand Allied World and have supported clients, cedents and trading partners with thoughtful service and meaningful coverages since 2001. We are a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Limited and benefit from a strong capital base and a worldwide network of affiliated entities that allow us to think and respond in non-traditional ways. 

Our generous benefits package includes Health, Dental and Disability Insurance, a company match 401k plan, and Group Term Life Insurance. Allied World is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without consideration of any disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. 

To learn more, visit awac.com, or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/alliedworld and LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/allied-world.