Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CareOregon is hiring a Project Manager II to lead large-scale, complex projects across the organization. The role manages all stages of the project lifecycle, facilitates collaboration among stakeholders, and supports enterprise-wide technology, process improvement, systems, and analytics initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Develop project plans that outline components, communications, milestones, priorities, needs and resources
- Organize, facilitate, and participate in meetings of stakeholder groups to identify needs and build consensus and collaboration
- Work collaboratively in analyzing business needs to identify potential technical solutions and process impacts to inform business case and project proposals and project plans
- Apply senior level skills in leading stakeholders; act as a resource to project team members
- Monitor and regularly communicate project status to Sponsors, Business Owners and other stakeholders, helping to ensure progress toward completion
- Make formal and informal presentations and reports, providing updates and other relevant information on the status of projects
- Represent the organization regarding project status and alignment with strategic plans; facilitate and work effectively to develop consensus within divergent groups and/or groups with divergent viewpoints
- Identify potential difficulties and/or barriers to project goals and take steps to mitigate or avoid them
- Ensure compliance with all applicable standards, policies, laws, rules and regulations outlined in the project plan
- Employ advanced change management techniques to facilitate the adoption of the project
- Track large scale project costs and identify variances from project plans
- Develop and recommend operational processes and/or process improvements including supporting information systems
- Maintain appropriate records, information, documentation and reports
- At the time of project completion, close files and review records to ensure documentation is appropriate and complete
- Facilitate the evaluation of progress and challenges following implementation, identifying potential system or process improvement opportunities
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance for implementation, configuration, and on-going support of internal systems, technology, and analytics
Skills
- Minimum 5 years' related experience, including minimum 4 years managing projects; experience should include:
- Independent leadership of a variety of medium and large-scale projects, as well as leadership on occasional enterprise-wide, complex projects
- Minimum 2 years' experience leading complex information systems projects
- Expert knowledge of principles, methods, and techniques of project management and effective organizational change management
- Knowledge of multiple project management frameworks, specifically variations of both agile and waterfall development methods
- Ability to apply process improvement and redesign principals and techniques such as Lean, PDSA, or Six Sigma
- Expert ability to develop a formal and detailed project plan aligned with established timeline and budgetary guidelines
- Advanced ability to lead and motivate peers, cross-functional partners and management toward project goal attainment
- Excellent ability to manage multiple activities, matrixed teams, organization communications, and frequently competing priorities to implement change as necessary within time and budget constraints
- Excellent skills in Microsoft Office, collaboration and project planning systems
- Skilled at resource planning and negotiating with resource managers for needed skills and time from team members throughout the project/program lifecycle
- Excellent communication skills, including listening, verbal, written, documentation, meeting facilitation, and presentations
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in working with internal and external business partners
- Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups
- Ability to learn, focus, understand, and evaluate information and determine appropriate actions
- Ability to accept direction and feedback, as well as tolerate and manage stress
- Ability to see, read, and perform repetitive finger and wrist movement for at least 6 hours/day
- Ability to hear and speak clearly for at least 3-6 hours/day
- Scrum, Agile, and/or Project Management International (PMI) Project Management certification
- 3 or more years' experience in health plan operations
- Experience w/ technical and non-technical teams and projects as a Project Manager
- Experience leading and/or facilitating cross functional teams
- Smartsheets experience
- Change Management experience
- ServiceNow experience
- 40% of Project Management experience with Operations
- Candidate lives in Oregon
- Understanding of multiple health plan functions and system implications preferred
- Expertise with information systems in the health insurance or related industry preferred
Benefits
- Bonus - SIP Target, 5% Annual
- Work from home
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account(s)
- Lifestyle spending account
- Employee assistance program
- Wellness program
- Discounts
- Voluntary life insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Accident insurance
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Pre-tax parking
- Pet insurance
- 529 College Savings
- Retirement plan with employer contributions
- PTO for benefits-eligible employees
- Paid State Sick Time
- Paid holidays, depending on eligibility
- Volunteer time, depending on eligibility
- Jury duty leave, depending on eligibility
- Bereavement leave, depending on eligibility
- 401(k) contributions for non-benefits-eligible employees
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