Senior Healthcare Project Manager

Position: Senior Healthcare Project Manager

Location: REMOTE

Duration: 6 months (Contract to Hire)

Pay Rate: $75/hr on W2

Must-Haves: Healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, FEP, and DSNP Experience

Description

The Senior Enterprise Project Manager creates a consultative partnership with the business owner to define, plan, and execute on deliverables throughout the project life cycle to meet agreed acceptance criteria. This position leads projects of high complexity and may lead multiple projects concurrently in accordance with industry best practices. Projects managed in this role have enterprise-level impacts involving multiple vendors, delivery partners, and business areas. Types of projects vary widely: launches of new products or services; largescale application development; migration to new business applications; outsourcing of business or system capabilities; infrastructure upgrades, and more. The project team structure includes matrixed resources from across the company. Delivery methods include both Agile and Waterfall.

General Project Management and Facilitation

• Accountable for the development of business processes to ensure business readiness at project completion.
• Responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and clear communication is provided to our customers and members.
• Accountable for ensuring that deliverables from business and technology partners are produced and approved according to multiple project schedules. This includes requirement documents, functional and technical design documents, test plans, etc.
• Accountable for and leads other project managers on highly complex projects.
• Proactively identifies and manages project risks and dependencies and raises awareness around projects across the portfolio.
• Engages delivery partners within information technology, architecture, analytics and enterprise security areas for software development projects according to industry best practices.

Financial Management

Responsible for developing, refining, and monitoring the project budgets throughout the project life cycles.

Manages budgets to hours and dollar allocations to the approved amounts in accordance with financial processes.

Delivery Implementation

• Coordination of project team and vendor training to ensure accuracy on requirements and design on new software.
• Accountable for monitoring and effectively representing the project as well as working with the project team to develop mitigation strategies for any risks and dependencies across the portfolio.
• Proactively manages the change request process for project-level scope, schedule, and budget changes throughout the project life cycle.

Stakeholder Management

• Represents projects in executive level presentations in various project governance and inter-departmental forums.
• Accountable for stakeholder identification and engagement throughout the project life cycle to ensure business readiness and
• Accountable for ensuring all business readiness including any necessary training and updates to business processes.
• Proactive identification of risks and dependencies.

Vendor Management

• Manages the execution of contracted work to ensure contract compliance as well as timely receipt of deliverables and funds.
• Frequently participates in the process of new vendor/product selection.
• Accountable for driving project deliverables and compliance through the vendor contracting process for multiple vendors at a time.
• Works closely with vendors to drive multiple parallel timelines.

Resource Management

• Assembles, mobilizes, and motivates teams to set direction, approach, identify skill gaps, and resolve conflict in a highly matrixed environment to lead projects to conclusion.
• Accountable for managing allocated resources from multiple delivery partners while working within approved hours and scope.
• Mentors and provides feedback to team members to create a highly functioning team in a heavily matrixed environment.

Hiring Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and five years of project management or equivalent experience to include enterprise-wide and multiple concurrent projects of increasing complexity.
• Knowledge of project planning techniques and automated project planning tools.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle including: development tools/technologies, release/version control, testing methodologies, and deployment management
• Experience leading change at the project or program level.
• Understanding of project management methodology.

Hiring Preferences

• L Data warehouse - Experience managing business intelligence and data warehouse projects
• L Strong prioritization and time management Demonstrated statistical, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• L Demonstrated proficiency with Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint and Planview.
• L Web – Experience with customer-facing websites and user experience knowledge
• L Ability to leverage team strengths and encourage effective collaboration
• L Mentors team members
• L Initiates action to accomplish goals and objectives
• L Project Management Institute (PMI) certification or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• L Healthcare/insurance experience.
• L Experience with Waterfall or Agile methodology. Stakeholder management with influencing, facilitation and negotiation skills.
• L Finance- Experience with financial systems
• L Influences team members and stakeholders to meet project and organizational goals and objectives
• L Sales & Marketing – Experience with product lifecycle
• L Provide strong consultative leadership as a member of the project leadership team
• L Proactive team leadership and conflict management
• L Effective stakeholder management via communication and presentation skills
• L Excellent interpersonal communication.
• L Demonstrated ability to thrive in an often changing, ambiguous work environment.
• Optional depending on area for which we are recruiting:
• The following personality attributes characterize highly successful project managers:
• L Strategy – Experience launching strategic initiatives or technologies
• L Effective in a highly matrixed environment.
• L Prior consulting experience.

Below is a brief introduction of SPECTRAFORCE, the benefits we offer, and the disclaimers:

Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams.

We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 130 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation.

SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people (and clients) can reach their highest potential. Our entire workflow and teams are trained to cultivate the joy of NEWJOBPHORIA® with candidates and employees throughout their engagement with SPECTRAFORCE. http://www.spectraforce.com

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at [email protected] if you require reasonable accommodation