Must be in Michigan for the start of the assignment but client is working remote and plans to return to the office have not yet been released.
Top 3 Required Skills/Experience:
- Scope and Cost Management
- Communications and Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
Job Description:
- Responsible for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing complex application and system implementation projects using a formal project management methodology.
- May manage multiple projects of moderate size concurrently.
- Involved in the development of strategic plans for projects of high business complexity.
- Develops strategic plans for projects of high business complexity, including pre-planning and sales support.
- Develops and maintains detailed plans and schedules, risk and issue logs, project budgets, and resource allocations.
- Monitors project metrics for significant deviations in scope, quality, cost, and/or schedule.
- Assists in establishing and improving project management methodologies, procedures and policies.
- Coaches and mentors individuals on the project teams and provides feedback on performance to their leaders.
- Adheres to Project Management Office policies, procedures, and methodologies.
- Complete knowledge of the Project Management Institute’s standards and terminology.
- Oversees client/customer relations to ensure that service expectations are developed and met.
- Wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs.
- A high proficiency level in specific job related skills is required.
- Responsible for ensuring projects deliver expected value.
- Concurrently manages multiple projects of moderate size.
- Determines creative solutions to strategic and operational needs.
- Medicare or Healthcare experience is a plus.
- Proficient in Jira and Confluence
- Proficient in MS Project, Excel, Visio, Word, and Teams
Required Skills/Experience:
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and verbal and written communication skills.
- Complete knowledge of the Project Management Institute’s standards and terminology.
- Ability to organize complex objectives into individual related tasks and measurable deliverables.
- Highly skilled in identifying task structures, relationships, and dependencies.
- Ability to facilitate meetings of all sizes for requirements, definition, and documentation, project planning, solution design, decision negotiations, risk and issue identification and management, and status tracking.
- Highly skilled in identifying and resolving root cause issues.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to lead toward resolution by inspiring an assigned team, asking probing questions, reconciling different viewpoints, fostering consensus, and stimulating thinking in oneself and others.
- Expertise in managing one or more medium to large projects of complex dependencies and risks and project metrics for significant deviations in quality, cost, or schedule.
- Ability to lead organization change, business process improvement, and business transformation.
- Expertise in developing, publishing, and presenting executive project health reports.
- Ability to manage vendor delivery to a project.
- Proficient in MS Project, Excel, Visio, Word
- Ability to use SharePoint and Excel, with knowledge of charting and data analysis.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
Seven years’ experience in a related field with demonstrated knowledge that provides the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required.
Education/Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Master’s degree in a related field is preferred.
- Relevant combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Continuous learning, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy, is required.
- Certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.