8-11 Project Manager

Focused HR Solutions • Columbia, SC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is up to 12 months, with the option of extension, and is in Columbia, SC. The Project Manager will interact with staff, other team members, all levels of management and internal and external organizations, including vendors performing outsourced work, in the compilation and management of information needed for project plans, portfolio/program plans, metrics, reports and project management documentation.

Requirements

• Experience working with SharePoint and other typical project management tools, including Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project, Word, Access and Excel
• Experience working with risk management, including risk triggers and managing risks to project plan tasks
• Ability to create and document key project management documents and artifacts
• Superb communications skills (written and oral)
• Effective listener
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations; ability to get people with competing, diverse interests to work together
• Must be able to manage multiple high profile, high priority projects at one time
• Project management skills
• People skills
• Strong background in project management in a healthcare insurance information technology environment
• Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation
• Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give presentations to executive management
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis
• Microsoft Office Suite (Advanced, 2-4 Years)
• Program Management Experience with managing the implementation of major (multi-million dollar) projects (Expert, 2-4 Years)
• EXPERIENCE WITH PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF LARGE ENTERPRISE LEVEL PROJECTS WITH PROVEN IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS (Expert, 4-6 Years)
• Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation (Expert, 1-2 Years)
• Release Management (Expert, 2-4 Years)
• Resource management (Expert, 2-4 Years)
• SOFTWARE PROJECT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (Expert, 2-4 Years)
• Change Management (Advanced, 2-4 Years)
• Experience working with risk management (Advanced, 2-4 Years)
• Large-scale production system implementation experience (Expert, 4-6 Years)
• Strong background in project management in a healthcare insurance information technology environment (Expert, 4-6 Years)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Medicaid or other healthcare claims system(s) IT projects preferred, but not mandatory
• Medicaid or Healthcare Delivery Systems
• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (Intermediate, 1-2 Years)

Responsibilities

• Assists with developing business requirements
• Building a project plan and executing to that plan
• Managing project risks and issues
• Ensuring that all deliverables and activities are completed with high quality and in a timely fashion
• Reporting on project status and strategies orally and in writing
• Other related duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed