Project Management Officer

The Associate Project Manager plays a crucial role in supporting the planning, execution, status reporting and coordination of complex Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) Implementation projects. This position directly supports the team responsible for program and project management of multiple interrelated work-streams with tight deadlines and numerous dependencies. As part of the Americas M&A Implementation Team, the Associate Project Manager contributes to the successful execution of M&A Implementation projects.
 Collaborate closely with M&A Project Managers, M&A Analysts, and Implementation Managers on a daily basis during US business hours, including team meetings, status updates, and task collaboration.
 Work directly with merger partner employees, external vendors, Regional leaders, IT, Finance & Accounting, Learning & Development, and other internal teams.
 Create, review, maintain, and deliver project management documentation, deliverables, and communications, such as project. plans, spreadsheets, meeting invitations, PowerPoint presentations, process/workflow maps, and other project management deliverables.
 Track project deliverables, risks, and issues by collaborating with task owners and subject matter experts across multiple interrelated internal work-streams and external service providers.
 Develop and maintain project management methodology/process documentation and templates, while proactively identifying and implementing ongoing process improvements.
 Provide support during M&A Go-Live weekends, assisting project manager(s) with the implementation playbook before a new merger partner goes live in Gallagher systems and processes. This role involves some full weekend commitment, starting from Friday evening through Sunday.
 Assist the M&A Implementation team with vendor interactions and the system licensing process.
 Perform specific duties assigned to this role, including project initiation tasks for newly closed mergers and internal data conversions, leading projects such as database extracts and system migrations, tracking legacy system backups, handling formal IT change requests, managing Gallagher Submit IDM backfill, scheduling large team meetings, maintaining team documentation, tracking calendar task reminders, supporting weekend work for conversions and environment moves, coordinating Select - Personal Lines and Small Business project tasks for data conversion, and registering companies and brokers in collaboration with mergers and regions,