Project Manager, Consultant (Enterprise Mandates)

Blue Shield of California•Woodland Hills, CA

About The Position

Your Role The Enterprise Mandates team is responsible for transforming new laws into audit-ready projects with defined ownership, scope, timelines, and funding, and oversees implementation through the full project lifecycle, including transition to operational owners. The Project Manager Consultant will report to the Senior Manager, Enterprise Mandates Delivery. In this role you will be managing complex projects end to end to meet compliance and other business objectives of each project. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning. Responsibilities Your Work In this role, you will: Effectively manage large-scale, high-complexity projects/programs of diverse scope that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders to implement Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBSA), state, and federal mandates and corporate services projects. Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artifacts. Manage project resources to meet deliverables, including forming, motivating high-performance, cross-functional Business and IT teams, which may include on and off-shore resources. Coordinate efforts to estimate and scope proposals. Provide regular communications and project status reports to management, stakeholders, and the project team. Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value. Validate financial forecasts and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures by managing project costs within the approved capital and expense budgets, including trend analysis and appropriate communications and support should budget adjustments be warranted. Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria. Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles. Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Requires at least 7 years of direct Project Management experience, preferably within healthcare payer operations
Candidate must have hands-on experience in project/program resource planning, reporting, prioritization, and budgeting with both on-shore and off-shore staff
Health Care experience with Commercial, Individual, Family, Medicare, or Medi-Cal lines of business required
Experience using Agile methodology to deliver projects in a desired corporate environment

Nice To Haves

Medi-Cal experience preferred
PMP Certification and experience with Planview project management software preferred

Responsibilities

Effectively manage large-scale, high-complexity projects/programs of diverse scope that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders to implement Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBSA), state, and federal mandates and corporate services projects.
Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artifacts.
Manage project resources to meet deliverables, including forming, motivating high-performance, cross-functional Business and IT teams, which may include on and off-shore resources.
Coordinate efforts to estimate and scope proposals.
Provide regular communications and project status reports to management, stakeholders, and the project team.
Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value.
Validate financial forecasts and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures by managing project costs within the approved capital and expense budgets, including trend analysis and appropriate communications and support should budget adjustments be warranted.
Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria.
Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles.
Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects.