Job DescriptionJob DescriptionMandate Overview:

- The client is looking for a business project manager for the L1B Underwriting delivery of the APART initiative, which modernizes the individual insurance ecosystem through a software package solution. The delivery is completing its feasibility phase, while L1A entered execution in 2026: the person will arrive as the next stages are being structured and phase gates prepared. The role combines steering and governance: contribution requests to business experts and team leads, status reporting, performance dialogue and plan follow-up, in tandem with the PCO. It also includes a support component, as the person acts in a support and coaching capacity with project teams. The baseline requirement is more than 8 years of IT project management within a recognized methodology, Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid.

- Candidate sought: a project manager with more than 8 years leading IT projects within a formal methodological framework, who has already owned status reports, governance documents and phase gates. A background in life and health insurance on projects over $10M puts the candidate at the top of the list.

Requirements

Required:





- IT project management in a structured workplace with a recognized methodology (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid)

- Command of project management practices, methodologies and tools

Asset:

- Large-scale project management: over $10M

- Project management in life and health insurance

- Agile (Scrum) management

- Experience in Insurance

- Command of English (not weighted)

Profiles to Exclude:

- Project control officer (PCO) profile with no demonstrated responsibility for steering a project: plan, status reporting, team.

- Scrum Master or agile coach profile with no demonstrated responsibility for project scope, plan and governance.

- Non-IT project management profile (construction, engineering, events) with no technology solution delivery on the resume.

- Project coordinator or assistant profile with no demonstrated responsibility for status reports or governance documents.

- Profile totalling less than 8 years of IT project management, once coordination or analysis years are removed.

📌 Project Manager, Individual Insurance Modernization (Chef de projet, modernisation assurance individ (Montréal-Est)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Montréal-Est