Job Description :
Title : Project Management
Location : Louisville, KY or Work-at-Home
Duration : Contract
Job Description:
Detailed Description:
Utilizing ownership and commitment as the sole point of accountability, to work and manage competing stakeholder needs while anticipating and mitigating major risks. Understands the link between project goals and company-specific business context and/or reflects a strong learning agility in unfamiliar terrains. The Technology Project Manager has the full responsibility and authority to make decisions in ambiguous or difficult situations required to complete a project. A Technology Project Manager’s approach to the work, to others, and to self, must portray attitude of excellence in; Team Leadership, Stakeholder Partnership, Learning Agility, Risk Management, Business Knowledge, Ownership & Commitment, Judgement, and Process Adherence.
Team Leadership:
Ability to lead through influence in both team and across matrixes and to negotiate and/or resolve conflicts effectively.
Ability to Lead and Build teams that is both high-functioning and highly engaged, collaborative and cohesive.
Ability to work up and downstream easily, including knowing or seeking out the right people for resources, help, or advice.
Regularly and willingly shares knowledge and mentors others.
Appreciate individual uniqueness, respect people and encourage sharing of ideas, create an environment where everyone can fully be themselves, reflecting all of us and the communities we serve.
Replace judgment with curiosity, thoughtful questions and listening.
Celebrate the broadest possible range of diverse cultures, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Collaborate openly; building positive relationships to achieve strong, sustainable results for us and the people we serve.
Seek to reduce friction points and create quality experiences.
Engage people in decisions that will impact them.
Stakeholder Partnership:
Demonstrates exceptional communication in all directions (leaders and stakeholders) to build shared understanding, alignment, value, and commitment on deliverables including ability to communicate complex issues
Demonstrates good delegation and facilitation skills of project parameters (cost, time, scope, & quality) with a strong yet comfortable presence in meetings and relationships
Takes personal accountability to manage multiple stakeholders’ competing goals in creating quality experiences.
Challenge changes that make things complicated
Learning Agility:
Ability to shift easily between tactical and strategic work, and vice versa
Ability to juggle all the requirements/volume and continuously deliver
Ability to span many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD
Risk Management:
Ability to identify and assess project risks, mitigate threats and capitalize on opportunities.
Has enough experience and insight to anticipate issues and solve them proactively.
Knows the right questions to ask, gets up to speed quickly.
Ability to be attuned with the needs of a project environment that is increasingly global, virtual and complex.
Business Knowledge:
Demonstrates understanding of the business value of the project and its broader impact on programs, initiatives, and the enterprise.
Ownership & Commitment:
Demonstrates expanded level of accountability, ownership, integrity, and courage treating each project as if it was their own company.
Judgement:
Ability to make good decisions in ambiguous or difficult situations.
Ability to balance execution efficiency with risk mitigation.
Process Adherence:
Follows processes well, including documentation – BUT also knows when and why to break from process, proposes a better way, and justifies the decision
Demonstrates deep understanding of processes, and is able to fine-tune and adapt at a high-craft level
Proficiency in financial forecasts and conducting on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
Work and learn together, transforming the norm to strengthen operational excellence and outcomes.
Role Essentials
Bachelor’s Degree
Software/System Development Lifecyle methodology knowledge
Project Management Institute certification
Agile Certified Practitioner
2-4 years of related experience
4-7 years of related experience
7+ years of related experience
Role Desirables
Six Sigma certification
Project Management Institute certification
Previous experience planning and managing large projects
Prior experience in the health solutions industry
Prior experience in Cloud, Security, and emerging technology initiatives
Prior experience in Vendor Management
Risk Management
Reporting Relationships
You will report to a Technology Program Manager.
Additional Information
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