Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CareOregon is a healthcare organization seeking a Project Manager III responsible for leading large scale, complex projects utilizing project management and LEAN principles. The role involves managing all stages of the project lifecycle, acting as a liaison among stakeholders, and ensuring project goals are met effectively.
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 expert 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 program and/or 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
- Actively participate in business unit planning and performance metrics
- Recommend and draft policies and procedures for departmental or organizational application
- Participate in functional discussions and initiatives across departments
Skills
- Minimum 7 years' related experience, including minimum 5 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 5 years' experience leading information systems projects, including some at a complex level
- Thorough knowledge of principles, methods, and techniques of project management and effective organizational change management
- Working knowledge of policies, principles, and practices of healthcare and health insurance
- Advanced understanding of multiple health plan functions and system implications
- Advanced knowledge of multiple project management frameworks, specifically variations of both agile and waterfall development methods
- Ability to integrate 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
- Highly 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
- Minimum 2 years' experience in the health care or managed care industry
- Expertise with information systems in the health insurance or related industry preferred
Benefits
- Bonus - SIP Target, 5% Annual
- Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account(s)
- Lifestyle spending account
- Employee assistance program
- Wellness program
- Discounts
- Multiple supplemental benefits (e.g., voluntary life, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, pre-tax parking, pet insurance, 529 College Savings, etc.)
- Strong retirement plan with employer contributions
- Benefits-eligible employees qualify for benefits beginning on the first of the month on or after their start date
- Benefits-eligible employees accrue PTO and Paid State Sick Time based on hours worked/scheduled hours and the primary work state
- Employees may also receive paid holidays, volunteer time, jury duty, bereavement leave, and more, depending on eligibility
- Non-benefits eligible employees can enjoy 401(k) contributions, Paid State Sick Time, wellness and employee assistance program benefits, and other perks
- Work from home
- Benefits-eligible employees qualify for benefits beginning on the first of the month on or after their start date
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