Project Manager Jobs

Project Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Remote

Position Summary

The Project Manager will be accountable for and manage the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of projects (Client Funded Change Requests) with moderate to complex scope and deliverables. Project scope requires planning to implementation and may impact one or more business units/functions. Project scope typically impacts one or more of the following: process, system, function, product, and/or service.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Implement the governance model defined for similar projects
• Identify key stakeholders ensuring the establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
• Anticipate all possible risks and manage them by applying a suitable risk management strategy; while developing contingency plans.
• Track and reports project KPIs and analyze project health
• Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs
• Maintain regular communication with customers; addressing needs through empathy with their environment
• Define activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces, and budget. Optimize costs and time utilization, minimize waste, and deliver projects on time, and on budget as per the contract and agreed-on scope, with a high-quality result.
• Provide individual and team mentoring; ensuring high levels of team engagement, and developing capabilities within the team
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices that can be leveraged by other teams

Other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education / Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field is required. 5 or more years of experience in a related field.
• Program Management (managing multiple small projects for a specific work stream):
• Project Management Professional Certificate preferred.
• Client-facing and executive management experience
• Leadership and/or analytical experience with data, systems, and operations.
• 3 years of project management experience in health plan operations or related fields.
• Superior Communication Skills
• Knowledge of program management preferred.

Technical Skills

• Healthcare experience
• MS Project/JIRA/Confluence
• Ability to work in a waterfall and agile SDLC
• PMP experience
• MS Office Suite

Skills & Abilities

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong Professional services/customer services skills.
• Thinks both tactically and strategically to identify issues before they arise.
• Proven ability to be prompt, dependable, trustworthy.
• Ability to quickly understand relevant business knowledge.
• Self-motivated, self-directed.
• Strong team leadership skills.
• Able mentor more junior Product Owners and Scrum Master.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following.

Adaptability - Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles. Measures self against standard of excellence. Recognizes and acts on opportunities. Sets and achieves challenging goals. Takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.

Communications - Exhibits good listening and comprehension. Expresses ideas and thoughts in written form. Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally. Keeps others adequately informed. Selects and uses appropriate communication methods.

Continuous Learning - Assesses own strengths and weaknesses. Pursues training and development opportunities. Seeks feedback to improve performance. Shares expertise with others. Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills

Customer Service - Displays courtesy and sensitivity. Manages difficult or emotional customer situations. Meets commitments. Responds promptly to customer needs. Solicits customer feedback to improve service.

Problem Solving - Develops alternative solutions. Gathers and analyzes information skillfully. Identifies problems in a timely manner. Resolves problems in early stages. Works well in group problem solving situations.

Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities. Contributes to building a positive team spirit. Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views. Gives and welcomes feedback. Puts success of team above own interests.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Entry Points

N/A

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Performs light work; exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally, or up to 15 pounds of force frequently, or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

Xpanxion is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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