Associate Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee small to medium-sized projects from initiation to completion, ensuring that delivery adheres to specified scope, quality, schedule, and budgetary constraints.

• Create and manage detailed project plans that encompass milestones, priorities, dependencies, resources, deliverables, and implementation activities.

• Identify, monitor, mitigate, and escalate risks, issues, decisions, and project deficiencies; formulate contingency plans and corrective measures as necessary.

• Lead cross-functional teams and subject-matter experts, including nurses, pharmacists, data analysts, auditors, actuaries, and other resources, to meet project goals.

• Collaborate with Executive Sponsors and Client Relationship Owners to outline requirements, scope, governance, approval processes, quality standards, and critical success factors.

• Establish and nurture relationships with internal and external stakeholders, clients, sponsors, and vendors.

• Manage multiple simultaneous projects, aligning requirements, implementation timelines, post-implementation strategies, vendor responsibilities, and service-level expectations.

• Deliver project status updates and executive communications, including presentations, agendas, follow-up documentation, and key deliverables.

• Engage in client and stakeholder meetings to recognize trends and issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.

• Maintain awareness of client Statements of Work (SOWs) and project requirements, document process flows, pinpoint improvement opportunities, and promote continuous enhancement across project teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 1 year of project management experience, encompassing resource coordination, issue resolution, project controls, and execution.

• Excellent client-facing and relationship-management abilities, capable of conveying complex information clearly to diverse audiences.

• Demonstrated capability to develop and oversee end-to-end project plans, balancing multiple priorities, deadlines, risks, and deliverables.

• Strong strategic, analytical, and critical-thinking skills, with a talent for synthesizing data and proactively identifying solutions.

• Proven industry knowledge and a consultative mindset, anticipating stakeholder needs and driving optimal results.

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and adaptable, with the ability to maintain an overarching view while managing shifting priorities.

• Independent, accountable, and resourceful, demonstrating strong follow-through and the ability to leverage team strengths to achieve objectives.

• Previous experience with a large health plan or Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM).

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Rx

• Dental

• Vision

• Life Insurance

• Disability Insurance

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• 401k

• Student Loan Assistance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Free Mental Health & Enhanced Advocacy Services

• Paid Time Off

• Holidays

• Preferred Partner Discounts