Project Manager, Consultant (Enterprise Mandates Delivery)
About The Position
The Enterprise Mandates Delivery team transforms new laws into audit-ready projects with defined ownership, scope, timelines, and funding, and oversees implementation throughout the project lifecycle, including transition to operational owners. The Project Manager Consultant takes hands-on ownership of complex projects from initiation through delivery, actively managing execution, risks, dependencies, and project financials to achieve compliance objectives. The role reports to the Senior Manager, Enterprise Mandates Delivery. The role requires managing large, complex projects and programs to implement BCBSA, state, and federal mandates. It involves developing project plans and artifacts, leading cross-functional teams, coordinating estimates and proposals, using automation and collaboration tools, communicating status, and managing project costs and financial forecasts. The position is hybrid; for most teams, employees are expected to work in the office two days per week. Employees who live more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or a high school diploma/GED plus four years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 7 years of direct project management experience, preferably within healthcare payer operations.
- Experience working with and supporting healthcare mandates.
- Hands-on experience in project/program resource planning, reporting, prioritization, and budgeting with onshore and offshore staff.
- Hands-on experience with project financial planning and reconciliation.
- Healthcare experience in Commercial, Individual, Family, Medicare, or Medi-Cal lines of business.
- Experience using Agile methodology to deliver projects in a corporate environment.
Nice To Haves
- PMP certification.
- Experience with Planview project management software.
- Experience with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools.
Responsibilities
- Manage large-scale, high-complexity projects and programs of diverse scope involving internal and external stakeholders to implement BCBSA, state, and federal mandates.
- Develop project charters, integrated project plans, resource plans, contingency plans, and related project management artifacts.
- Manage project resources and deliverables, forming and motivating high-performance cross-functional Business and IT teams, including onshore and offshore resources.
- Coordinate efforts to estimate and scope proposals.
- Use available automation and collaboration tools, including Microsoft Copilot, to support project planning, reporting, and execution.
- Provide regular communications and project status reports to management, stakeholders, and project teams.
- Evaluate trade-offs among project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value.
- Validate financial forecasts and reconcile resources and project expenditures; manage costs within approved capital and expense budgets, conduct trend analysis, and communicate and support budget adjustments when warranted.
- Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria.
- Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles.
- Facilitate operational checkpoint activities throughout project lifecycles.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
