Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential Jobs is seeking a Senior Information Technology Project Manager to lead large, complex initiatives supporting strategic, operational, regulatory, and market-readiness objectives. The role oversees cross-functional business and technology workstreams, managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, and business readiness through successful implementation.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex programs and technology projects spanning 30–60 product areas through the full project management lifecycle
- Serve as the single point of accountability for project delivery, implementation readiness, and committed business outcomes
- Develop integrated delivery plans covering scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, governance, and business objectives
- Coordinate business and technology workstreams across multiple cross-functional teams
- Manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining alignment across related initiatives and product areas
- Establish project milestones, deliverables, performance measures, and accountability requirements
- Identify, assess, mitigate, and escalate risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies
- Manage project budgets, financial forecasts, staffing plans, capacity requirements, and resource allocation
- Provide clear, outcome-focused status updates, recommendations, and escalations to executive leadership and key stakeholders
- Facilitate governance meetings, executive discussions, decision-making, and issue-resolution activities
- Ensure compliance with Delivery Excellence standards, governance requirements, project controls, and change management processes
- Lead business-readiness activities, including operational transition, implementation planning, communications, training, and adoption
- Drive accountability across project teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority
- Lead initiatives through ambiguity by establishing clear priorities, responsibilities, decisions, and execution plans
- Apply lessons learned and best practices to improve delivery processes, governance, and organizational effectiveness
Skills
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of seven years of project management experience
- Demonstrated experience successfully delivering large, complex projects on time and within budget
- Experience managing multiple projects or related workstreams concurrently
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving business and technology teams
- Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, and business readiness
- Experience applying multiple project delivery methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile
- Proven ability to lead at the program level while remaining grounded in formal project management discipline
- No professional certification is required
- Must be able to manage competing priorities and support time-sensitive strategic, operational, regulatory, and market-readiness initiatives
- Must be able to work across organizational boundaries and influence stakeholders without direct authority
- Strong knowledge of project and program management principles, methodologies, controls, and best practices
- Ability to manage complex initiatives involving 30–60 product areas and numerous interdependent business and technology workstreams
- Strong strategic planning and execution skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making abilities
- Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and financial performance monitoring
- Advanced risk, issue, assumption, constraint, and dependency management capabilities
- Strong understanding of project governance, change control, decision management, and executive reporting
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Executive presence and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to diverse audiences
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, conflict resolution, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and create clarity, alignment, accountability, and forward progress
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage competing demands
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive results without direct reporting authority
- Strong business acumen with a focus on measurable outcomes, implementation readiness, and continuous improvement
- Proficiency with project and portfolio management systems used to manage plans, schedules, resources, budgets, risks, dependencies, and reporting
- Adaptability and sound judgment in a complex, rapidly changing environment
- Project or program management experience within healthcare or the health insurance industry
- Previous experience working with Highmark or a comparable health insurance organization
- Experience using Monday.com, Planview, and Oracle ERP Resource and Financial modules
- Experience leading Open Enrollment Period or Annual Enrollment Period readiness planning
- Experience implementing commercial and government health insurance products
- Experience managing strategic, operational, regulatory, or market-readiness programs
- Demonstrated ability to operate at the program level while maintaining detailed project controls and delivery discipline
- Continuous-improvement mindset with experience applying lessons learned and delivery best practices
Benefits
- Work arrangement may be onsite, hybrid, or remote based on organizational requirements.
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