Project Manager III

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

📋 Description

• Oversee medium to high complexity projects as part of programs and manage high complexity standalone projects.

• Guarantee the successful execution of projects and the completion and approval of milestone deliverables throughout the project's lifecycle.

• Enhance project management best practices, processes, and tools.

• Conduct project closure activities.

• Refine project charters and work in collaboration with business owners and IT contacts for resource allocation.

• Create and maintain project schedules, work breakdown structures, resource plans, forecasts, budgets, and estimates.

• Organize project audits and ensure adherence to EPMO governance audit standards.

• Evaluate, manage, and control impacts related to project scope, schedule, and budget changes.

• Escalate issues to Business Owners, Program Managers, and EPMO Leadership.

• Maintain stakeholder matrices, RAID logs, SharePoint sites, and project document repositories.

• Foster cross-functional communication between business and IT sectors.

• Develop project communication, training, operations, and support plans.

• Mentor junior Project Managers or Project Coordinators.

• Organize and lead project and stakeholder meetings.

• Represent projects in program and Portfolio Governance meetings.

• Document and report on meeting notes, decisions, action items, project status, metrics, and budget.

• Execute mitigation strategies and contingency plans.

• Identify, log, assign, and manage risks and issues.

• Generate detailed reports, business decision documents, meeting minutes, and project notifications.

• Perform additional job duties as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent years of relevant work experience is mandatory.

• At least five (5) years of Project Management experience is essential.

• A Master’s Degree in a related field is preferred.

• Exceptional proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, including Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Teams, Outlook, etc.

• Experience with project management software is required.

• Exhibits excellent analysis and reporting capabilities.

• Strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities.

• Outstanding interpersonal and relationship-building skills.

• Excellent critical listening and thinking abilities.

• Proven capacity to effectively interact with all levels of management within and outside the organization.

• Superior written and verbal communication skills.

• Customer service-oriented approach.

• Ability to lead a project team of over 20 core members and multiple vendors proactively, effectively, and efficiently.

• Experience managing projects with budgets up to $3.5M.

• Proven track record of prioritizing work and team assignments to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to stakeholders' expectations.

• Demonstrates a strong sense of urgency.

• Extensive knowledge of project management processes, techniques, tools, and the development lifecycle (preferably Agile).

• Familiarity with the healthcare payer industry and knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare is a plus.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly preferred.

• General office environment; may require prolonged sitting or standing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus linked to both company and individual performance.

• Comprehensive total rewards package.

• Significant potential for remote work.