Associate Project Manager

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana • Baton Rouge, LA

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About The Position

This individual contributor position facilitates the coordination of personnel and other resources (e.g. contractors, vendor partners) required to successfully complete a series of individual projects, ensuring the delivery of quality business outcomes including project deliverables, new and improved processes, and services. The Project Manager manages projects of varying complexity and operates in a tightly regulated industry environment. The Project Manager is directly responsible for ensuring the execution of all key steps in project delivery: business, technical and functional requirements elicitation, dependency mapping, milestone projections, task-level program steps, identification and regular publishing of metrics which define project success. The position must regularly monitor work to ensure that projects remain in line with projected costs and timelines. This is accomplished by ensuring the adoption of well-established, industry best practice frameworks and methodologies. The Project Manager is accountable for complying with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Project Management, Computer Science, or related field. Completion of an approved educational program or four years of related experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
• 1 year of experience in planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes preferred
• Basic degree of competency with PMBOK methodologies and frameworks such as project management, software development life cycle and ITIL. Six Sigma and Organizational development best practices a plus.
• Requires basic knowledge in the field of computer science, including hardware and software products, computer systems, systems analysis, programming, development/maintenance process, and data management for large complex systems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to create and deliver presentations to organization management including Senior Management are required.
• Ability to demonstrate presentation and facilitation skills working with key stakeholders and management including executive management preferred.
• Experience in interpreting and explaining specialized or complex material into information consumable by the public preferred.
• Must have demonstrated ability to analyze business information and process flows, gather relevant requirements and generate business, functional and technical specifications needed for successful delivery.
• Must have experience identifying, defining, quantifying and solving project-related issues on a regular basis.
• Must have experience using creativity/innovative approaches to resolve issues despite minimum lead times and with minimum requirement definition for changes or projects of major proportions.
• Must have experience correlating requirements and information from multiple sources, anticipating both current and future processing and management information needs, analyzing their potential impacts, and creating new technical solutions for these needs.

Nice To Haves

• PMI certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Continuously adheres to project management standards, processes, and procedures to ensure that products and services meet the client requirements in a cost-efficient manner
• Actively pursues personal skills development to ensure growth and the ability to demonstrate a high level of quality and productivity
• Actively participates in the aligning work and work habits with the organization’s strategic and complementary tactical plans. The strategy and tactics are to be responsive to and properly aligned with the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives
• Adheres to project and quality related processes in collaboration with fellow project managers and department management
• Develops, manages, and builds strong relationships / partnerships with clients, vendors, peers/other teams, and staff to ensure a high level of personal and team understanding of the client’s business operations, IT support needs, and IT service expectations
• Effectively manage all areas of projects including initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing of projects
• Effectively manage up 3-5 individual projects ranging from small to medium in size, low to medium complexity, and intradivisional in nature. These projects may range in duration from one month to one year, and range in budget from $0 to $100,000
• Assist in management of larger, more complex, cross-functional projects in support of senior project management staff
• Provide regular reporting and visibility on project statuses
• Define and oversee the business and financial results expected from a project; develop implementation plans, conduct risk assessments and develop and implement strategy; must ensure that project will effectively integrate with existing competing project and strategies to both short and long term business goals
• Identify and assemble project teams, identify in advance necessary resources and assign tasks and timeframes to facilitate successful completion of identified projects
• Manage technical challenges of applications and new product development; identify, communicate and manage all levels of risk to project business owners and senior management
• Successfully identify and communicate risk, scope creep and create actionable risk mitigation plans
• Understands Departmental Goals and Objectives and delivers work products to contribute to those goals
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned, within your scope of responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level