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You'll work closely with customers and internal teams to coordinate delivery, manage risks, and keep everything on track-helping ensure our solutions bring measurable value to clients. You will play an active role in delivering fixed-price and outcome-based engagements, maintaining rigorous scope governance and financial discipline to protect both client outcomes and Guidewire's commercial position.\nThis is a hands-on role ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, solving problems, and keeping projects moving forward. You'll have opportunities to develop your skills further by working on varied initiatives, supporting cross-functional teams, and learning from experienced leaders.\nJob Description\nKey Responsibilities\nProject Coordination and Execution\nManage day-to-day activities for assigned Guidewire implementation projects, ensuring milestones are met and issues are addressed\n\nHelp define project goals, timelines, and deliverables in collaboration with the team and customer-with clear alignment to fixed-price or outcome-based contract structures\n\nTrack progress using project plans and tools, making updates as needed to maintain scope, schedule, and budget integrity\n\nSupport structured implementation lifecycle phases (e.g., Fit-Gap, Configure, Test, Cutover) consistent with ERP-style delivery best practices on the Guidewire platform\n\nAssist in maintaining a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to provide clear visibility of effort, progress, and remaining work across all project workstreams\n\nScope Management\nMaintain a clearly defined and baselined project scope, ensuring all deliverables are documented and accepted by relevant stakeholders at project initiation\n\nMonitor day-to-day activities against the agreed scope baseline, identifying deviations early and escalating through formal change control processes\n\nSupport the preparation and documentation of Change Requests (CRs), capturing scope impact, effort estimates, schedule implications, and commercial consequences\n\nMaintain a change log to track all scope queries, approved changes, and their impact on budget and timeline\n\nEducate client teams on scope boundaries and the change control process to manage expectations proactively and minimize informal scope additions\n\nFinancial Tracking and Reporting\nTrack project financials against approved budgets, monitoring planned versus actual costs and flagging variances to senior team members\n\nSupport the preparation of regular financial status reports, including budget burn rate, remaining budget, and projected cost-at-completion\n\nAssist in applying basic Earned Value Management (EVM) principles-tracking Planned Value (PV), Earned Value (EV), and Actual Cost (AC) to provide objective measures of project performance and progress\n\nCalculate and report basic EVM indicators, including Schedule Variance (SV), Cost Variance (CV), and Cost Performance Index (CPI), to support early identification of financial risks\n\nSupport milestone-based billing processes by ensuring delivery milestones are clearly defined, acceptance criteria are agreed upfront, and evidence of completion is documented and ready for invoicing\n\nCoordinate with Finance and Engagement Management teams to ensure billing events are triggered accurately and on time in line with contractual terms\n\nCustomer and Team Communication\nAct as the primary contact for the customer on project logistics and updates\n\nEnsure all stakeholders are informed with timely status updates and follow-ups, including transparent reporting on scope status, financial health, and milestone progress\n\nHelp build strong working relationships with client teams and project collaborators\n\nSupport Senior Project Managers or Program Leads on more complex initiatives as needed\n\nRisk and Issue Management\nMonitor and identify risks early-particularly those that may impact fixed-price margin, scope integrity, or outcome delivery commitments-flagging them to senior team members or stakeholders\n\nWork with internal teams to troubleshoot blockers and keep the project moving forward\n\nEnsure decisions are documented, and actions are tracked to closure\n\nFlag potential scope creep early and escalate through appropriate change control processes to protect commercial positions\n\nGovernance and Reporting\nMaintain project documentation, including project charters, meeting notes, RAID logs, scope baseline documents, change logs, and financial reports\n\nProvide regular status reports to internal teams and external customers, with clear visibility on budget burn, milestone achievement, scope status, and EVM indicators\n\nMaintain traceability between deliverables, contracted outcomes, and billing milestones to support project sign-off and invoicing\n\nContribute to post-project reviews and knowledge sharing across the team\n\nKPIs & Success Metrics\nProject Delivery Health - Timely completion of key project milestones and deliverables\n\nCustomer Satisfaction - Strong working relationships and positive feedback from stakeholders\n\nFixed-Price Margin Performance - Delivery within approved cost budgets on fixed-price engagements\n\nScope Governance - Effective tracking, documentation, and escalation of all scope changes via formal change control\n\nFinancial Reporting Accuracy - Timely and accurate budget tracking, EVM reporting, and billing milestone management\n\nBilling Milestone Timeliness - Billing events triggered on time with complete supporting documentation\n\nAt Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI-empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.\n\nKey Skills & Experience\n5+ years of hands-on project or program delivery experience in software or professional services, with demonstrated experience on Guidewire or large-scale ERP implementations (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Majesco, Duck Creek)\n\nUnderstanding of fixed-price and outcome-based delivery models, including scope governance and change control disciplines\n\nFamiliarity with financial tracking concepts, including budget burn, cost variance, and basic Earned Value Management principles (PV, EV, AC, CPI, SV)\n\nExperience supporting milestone-based billing processes, including the definition of acceptance criteria and billing triggers\n\nStrong organisational skills with attention to detail and time management\n\nExcellent verbal and written communication-comfortableworking with customers and technical teams\n\nExperience managing tasks, timelines, and scope within agreed budgets and schedules\n\nFamiliarity with structured implementation lifecycle phases such as Fit-Gap, Configure, Test, and Go-Live Cutover\n\nBasic understanding of project risks and issue management\n\nCollaborative mindset-comfortable working across cross-functional teams\n\nFamiliar with common PM tools like Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar\n\nAble to work independently but knows when to escalate\n\nMotivated to learn and grow into larger project ownership\n\nDemonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.\n\nPreferred Skills & Experience\nFormal training or certification in project management (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe)\n\nExposure to the Earned Value Management methodology or formal financial reporting on project engagements\n\nExperience delivering Guidewire implementations (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter) or equivalent ERP/enterprise platform projects (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce)\n\nFamiliarity with fixed-price commercial models, SOWs, and milestone-based billing structures\n\nExperience in SaaS or cloud-based solution delivery\n\nPrevious work in customer-facing roles in software, IT, or professional services\n\nFamiliarity with the insurance industry or other regulated sectors\n\nExperience coordinating multi-region or remote teams\n\nExperience working with delivery partners or third-party vendors\n\nUnderstanding of Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery methodologies\n\nUse of tools like Smartsheet, Asana, or Power BI for tracking and reporting\n\nAbility to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment\n\nAbout Guidewire\nGuidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.\nAs a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.\nFor more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.\nGuidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. 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