Become A Manager, Project Management

* Provides research and assistance to leadership in the development and design of new projects.
* Uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks, and changes.
* Manages project status and information in the form of formal briefings, project update meetings, and written, electronic, and graphic reports.
* Develops, maintains, and manages detailed project plans, action item registers, and major milestone timelines for all assigned projects.
* Provides overall prioritization and director of work assignments, team resources, etc.
* Monitor and creates project deliverables.
* Coordinates with other work streams, projects, and initiatives which may impact successful completion of project.
* Manages all assigned projects to completion ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands, and maintaining overall project ownership.
* Acts as a single point of contact for project status.
* Maintains communication with stakeholders.
* Facilitates project meetings.
* Addresses problems through risk management and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to executive management.
* Ensures effective implementation of solutions/changes.
* Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
* Regular, consistent and punctual attendance.
* Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
* Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
* Job Specification:
* Bachelors Degree or Equivalent;Business

* Leading moderate to large complex projects and programs by providing strategic direction to projects, peers, and direct reports
* Designing, developing, and managing project plans in a complex dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements
* Ensuring projects are being documented appropriately to mitigate risk and to be delivered on time
* Leveraging problem solving and influencing skills to ensure project plans deliver on intent
* Partnering cross-functionally with project customers to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery
* Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments
* Exhibit outstanding influencing skills to effectively drive project / program efforts
* Demonstrate a proven track record of excellent project management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment.
* Display a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style
* Have excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes

* Coordinate project resources that result in seamless product management or deployment within predefined project timeframes and budget
* Develop and document standard implementation methodologies and ensure departmental compliance
* Develop client-specific project implementation plans and establish complete familiarity with the implementation milestones, specific site requirements (contractual or otherwise), site environment, client expectations and enterprise industry information system strategy and integrated collection technology
* As appropriate, drive technical development of projects to ensure design meets customer/market requirements and maximizes project resources
* Ensures that all technical decisions are cost-effective and meet requirements to ensure successful project milestones
* Manage project timelines, identifying and resolving any issues that may arise.
* Ensure milestones are met in a timely manner and proactively anticipates and mitigates risk to the project
* Develops and manages a project communication plan to routinely communicate the project status to team members as wel as internal / external stakeholders.
* Responsible for development of functional team’s talent through mentoring and training to facilitate growth development
* Work closely with cross-functional Project Management teams and facilitate the implementation process for customers, as appropriate, for both single and multi-site facilities

* Core program/project execution.
* Deliver critical AAA programs/projects with focused prioritization discipline and planning on time, on budget to meet business goals.
* Plan, schedule, manage and coordinate all aspects of project life cycle; Analysis/Design, Build, Test, Implement, Training / Change Management.
* Provide program/project leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate project risks and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
* Has authority to prioritize program/project tasks based on velocity, timeframes and critical path.
* Effectively identify and resolve any issues throughout the program/project life cycle.
* Promotes, utilizes, and contributes to knowledge transfer discussions before, during and after program/project completion.
* Provide consistent and comprehensive status updates; reporting schedule, cost, scope, workload and program/project team performance.
* Develop PMO Team Capabilities.
* Mentor, manage and guide project management team members and build PMO team talent through tools, methodology and resources.
* Methodology Improvement.
* Execute projects using standard AAA methodology/Agile Framework for defining, tracking, communicating and delivering measurable business benefits.
* Improve methodology and tools over time.
* Drive Strategic Alignment.
* Collaborate with product leads, project sponsors and business partners to provide thought leadership and guidance on defining business cases, key benefits, options, change and recommendations.
* Manage Budgets for program/project financials, issues and address/mitigate financial risks

* Provide leadership and project management staff oversight to ensure delivery of projects on schedule, within scope and within budget that meet customer requirements and needs.
* Oversee and accountable for the development, quality, and delivery of all assigned projects.
* Perform budget and resource management, project status reporting, issue and risk management, contingency planning and project communications to division and business leadership.
* Execute mitigation plans/actions as needed.
* Responsible for the management of a portfolio of key initiatives, through a disciplined, customer focused, project management approach; identifies and resolves project and program issues and risks.
* Assess portfolio on an ongoing basis to gauge demand and capacity fluctuations within the PMO and/or division to ensure resources (contracted and internal) are available to meet current and future demands.
* Develop and maintain positive customer relationships with key stakeholders.
* Deliver presentations of the overall suite of project status.
* Ensure compliance of staff and project participants to Highmark's project management tools, techniques, project lifecycle methodologies and audit requirements.
* Support and contribute to the improvement of project management methods and practices.
* Champions a standard project management methodology and technology systems development lifecycle through training and education.
* Collaborates with all levels of management to assemble project teams and work groups to produce deliverables required to achieve the objectives of a defined project/program.
* Other duties as assigned or requested