Project Manager III

Job Summary:

The Project Manager III is responsible for managing medium to high complexity projects within programs and high complexity standalone projects.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for successful delivery of project
• Ensure project milestone deliverables are completed and approved at every stage of the project lifecycle
• Assist with the continuous improvement of project management best practices, processes, and tools
• Responsible for ensuring project closure activities are completed
• Lead stakeholders in the refinement of the project charter if applicable
• Collaborate with business owners on the identification and assignment of business resources
• Develop and maintain project schedule and WBS
• Collaborate with IT point of contact on the identification and assignment of IT resources
• Develop project resource plan including forecast of EPMO FTEs and contractors
• Schedule project audits and ensure compliance to EPMO Governance audit requirements
• Develop and maintain project budget if applicable
• Capture and consolidate EPMO, IT and business estimates for the Project
• Assess, manage, and control project scope, schedule, and budget change impacts
• Escalate issues to Business Owner, Program Manager, and EPMO Leadership as applicable
• Maintain project stakeholder matrix
• Drive cross-functional communication between impacted business and IT areas
• Work with Talent Development and Communications to develop project communication and training plans
• Mentor junior Project Manager or Program Coordinators
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings including weekly status meetings and stakeholder meetings
• Represent project in program meetings or in Portfolio Governance meetings
• Capture and report on meeting notes, decisions, and action items
• Accurately track and report project status against plan to stakeholders at all levels
• Track, compile and report project metrics and budget
• Advocate for and adhere to EPMO standards, tools and processes
• Implement mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and communicate/escalate to stakeholders
• Maintain RAID for project items
• Identify, log, assign and manage risks and issues
• Maintain project SharePoint site and project document repository
• Produce detailed reports, business decision documents, meeting minutes, and notification on assigned projects
• Develop project operations and support plan
• Perform any other job duties as requested

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience is required
• Master’s Degree in related field is preferred
• Minimum of five (5) years of Project Management experience is required

Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:

Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Teams, Outlook, etc.

• Experience working in project management software is required
• Demonstrates excellent analysis and reporting skills
• Excellent decision making/problem solving skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Excellent critical listening and thinking skills
• Proven ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization of management within and externally to the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Customer service oriented
• Ability to proactively, effectively and efficiently lead a project team of 20+ core members and multiple vendors
• Experience managing a project of up to $3.5M in budget
• Proven ability to prioritize work and team assignments to deliver projects on time, on budget, and meeting stakeholders expectations
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Extensive understanding of project management processes, techniques and tools, and development lifecycle (ideally Agile)
• Familiarity of healthcare payer industry and knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare a plus

Licensure and Certification:

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strongly preferred

Working Conditions:

General office environment; may be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time

High potential for remote work