Healthcare Project Manager

GoAhead Solutions has a great opportunity in Detroit, MI for a Healthcare IT Deliver Lead / Project Manager. This would be a Twelve month contract to start out. This position will require to work onsite two to three days a week (hybrid).

Job Description:

Currently seeking an Agile and Waterfall IT Delivery Lead/Project Manager within the Company department. This Delivery Lead/Project Manager will work independently within guidelines, be responsible for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing application and system implementation projects using a formal project management process. Work will consist of a mix of complex and medium sized projects.

Essential Company Duties and Responsibilities:
-Create and maintain detailed work plan and schedule for agile and / or waterfall projects.
-Coordinate with resource managers to ensure the teams have provided the appropriate resources with available capacity to perform the work expected for the project.
-Track all project financials (budget, actuals, forecast, earned value).
-Track, manage and escalate all risks, actions/changes, issues and decisions in appropriate project logs.
-Facilitate all project change requests and coordinate approvals.
-Coordinate and participate in all project related meetings.
-Prepare and communicate weekly detailed project status.
-Adhere to project governance policies, procedures, and methodologies.
-Responsible for ensuring all project artifacts/deliverables/approvals are obtained and stored in the project documentation repository within defined project deadlines.

Top Three Required Skills /Experience:
-Strong Agile Project Management skills. Excellent analytical, logical reasoning, organizational, verbal and written communication skills and attention to details a must. Must be able to exhibit in relation to data integration and management.

-Experience with, Data Integration and Management solutions.
-Excellent consultative skills and must demonstrate ability to understand business needs, identify solutions based on those needs and build relationship with business partners and IT team. Self-starter and independent. Willing to do what it takes.

Required Skills/Experience:
-Proven experience managing projects at various levels of complexity using different project management methodologies.
-Excellent analytical, logical reasoning, organizational, verbal and written communication skills and attention to details a must. Must be able to exhibit in relation to data integration and management.
-Must demonstrate ability to understand business needs, identify solutions based on those needs and build relationship with business partners and IT team.
-Experience leading a matrix project team to define, establish, and ensure completion of all program milestones while adhering to timelines and budgets.
-Prior experience with data movement and integration or BI solutions.
-Experience in creating and managing detailed project plans for small to high complexity projects.
-Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
-Prior experience in healthcare or payer industry is highly preferred.

-Distributed application development experience
-System Analysis experience preferred
-MS Project or similar project management tools, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Visio
-Jira

Education/Certifications
-Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred
-experience in a delivery and consulting role leading data movement and integration related initiatives (system integration, data warehouse build, data mart build, or similar) is required
-PMP certification preferred

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