Healthcare Project Manager

ALTA is supporting a 6-month contract opportunity working 100% remote.

NO C2C

This person must have a strong domain expertise in Claims and Facets experience.

The Project Manager II manages low to medium-complexity projects within programs and medium-complexity standalone projects.

• Essential Functions: Responsible for the successful delivery of integration projects at the workstream level
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings, including weekly status meetings and stakeholder meetings
• Lead stakeholders in the refinement of the project charter
• Collaborate with business owners on the identification and assignment of business resources
• Capture and report on meeting notes, decisions, and action items
• Maintain workstream SharePoint site and project document repository
• Lead stakeholders in the current state documentation process
• Lead stakeholders in the future state recommendation process
• Develop and maintain project schedule
• Capture and consolidate IT and business estimates for the project
• Accurately track and report project status against plan to stakeholders at all levels
• Escalate issues to the Business Owner, Program Manager, and IMO Leadership as applicable
• Drive cross-functional communication between impacted business and IT areas
• Assess, manage, and control project scope, schedule, and budget change impacts
• Ensure project milestone deliverables are completed and approved at every stage of the project lifecycle
• Maintain project stakeholder matrix
• Assist with the continuous improvement of project management best practices, processes, and tools
• Collaborate with IT point of contact on the identification and assignment of IT resources
• Represent project in program meetings or in Portfolio Governance meetings
• Work with Talent Development and Communications to develop project communication and training plans
• Track, compile and report project metrics and budget
• Advocate for and adhere to IMO standards, tools and processes
• Implement mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and communicate/escalate to stakeholders
• Maintain RAID for project items
• Develop project operations and support plan
• Perform any other job duties as requested

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience is require
• Minimum of two (2) years of healthcare insurance experience is required
• Minimum of two (1) years of project management experience is required

Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:

• Must be comfortable leading workstream teams of subject matter excerpts through business requirements discovery phases.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Teams, Outlook, etc.
• Experience working in project management software is preferred
• Demonstrates analysis and reporting skills
• Excellent decision-making/problem-solving skills
• Demonstrates interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Demonstrates critical listening and thinking skills
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Customer service oriented
• Ability to proactively, effectively and efficiently lead a project team of up to 15 core members and multiple external vendors
• Ability to prioritize work and team assignments to deliver projects on time, on budget, and meeting stakeholders' expectations
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Understanding of project management processes, techniques and tools, and development lifecycle (ideally Agile)
• Familiarity with and knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare a plus

• Licensure and Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred

ALTA is supporting a 6-month contract opportunity working 100% remote.

NO C2C

This person must have a strong domain expertise in Claims and Facets experience.

The Project Manager II manages low to medium-complexity projects within programs and medium-complexity standalone projects.

• Essential Functions: Responsible for the successful delivery of integration projects at the workstream level
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings, including weekly status meetings and stakeholder meetings
• Lead stakeholders in the refinement of the project charter
• Collaborate with business owners on the identification and assignment of business resources
• Capture and report on meeting notes, decisions, and action items
• Maintain workstream SharePoint site and project document repository
• Lead stakeholders in the current state documentation process
• Lead stakeholders in the future state recommendation process
• Develop and maintain project schedule
• Capture and consolidate IT and business estimates for the project
• Accurately track and report project status against plan to stakeholders at all levels
• Escalate issues to the Business Owner, Program Manager, and IMO Leadership as applicable
• Drive cross-functional communication between impacted business and IT areas
• Assess, manage, and control project scope, schedule, and budget change impacts
• Ensure project milestone deliverables are completed and approved at every stage of the project lifecycle
• Maintain project stakeholder matrix
• Assist with the continuous improvement of project management best practices, processes, and tools
• Collaborate with IT point of contact on the identification and assignment of IT resources
• Represent project in program meetings or in Portfolio Governance meetings
• Work with Talent Development and Communications to develop project communication and training plans
• Track, compile and report project metrics and budget
• Advocate for and adhere to IMO standards, tools and processes
• Implement mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and communicate/escalate to stakeholders
• Maintain RAID for project items
• Develop project operations and support plan
• Perform any other job duties as requested

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience is require
• Minimum of two (2) years of healthcare insurance experience is required
• Minimum of two (1) years of project management experience is required

Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:

• Must be comfortable leading workstream teams of subject matter excerpts through business requirements discovery phases.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Teams, Outlook, etc.
• Experience working in project management software is preferred
• Demonstrates analysis and reporting skills
• Excellent decision-making/problem-solving skills
• Demonstrates interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Demonstrates critical listening and thinking skills
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Customer service oriented
• Ability to proactively, effectively and efficiently lead a project team of up to 15 core members and multiple external vendors
• Ability to prioritize work and team assignments to deliver projects on time, on budget, and meeting stakeholders' expectations
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Understanding of project management processes, techniques and tools, and development lifecycle (ideally Agile)
• Familiarity with and knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare a plus

• Licensure and Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred