Senior Project Manager

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Residency in or relocation to Louisiana is preferred for all positions.

This position will be flexible in office.

POSITION PURPOSE

This individual contributor position facilitates the coordination of personnel and other resources (e.g. contractors vendor partners) required to successfully complete a series of individual complex and highly visible projects ensuring the delivery of quality business outcomes including project deliverables new and improved processes and services. The Senior Project Manager manages projects of high complexity and high visibility and operates in a tightly regulated industry environment. The Senior Project Manager is directly responsible for ensuring the execution of all key steps in project delivery : business technical and functional requirements elicitation dependency mapping milestone projections task-level program steps identification and regular publishing of metrics which define project success. The position must regularly monitor work to ensure that projects remain in line with projected costs and timelines. This is accomplished by ensuring the adoption of well-established industry best practice frameworks and methodologies. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for complying with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities.

NATURE AND SCOPE

• This role does not manage people
• This role reports to this job : DIRECTOR PROJECT EXECUTION
• Necessary Contacts :

INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS :

Interfaces directly with client management (senior management business owners and project team members) in negotiation and definition of requirements.

Negotiates defines interprets plan / policy requirements and presents options and processing capabilities to upper level management.

Provides guidance and direction to all areas placing requirements on the system. Has management responsibility for highly complex cross-divisional projects with cross-department and cross-organization impacts.

Interfaces frequently with IT PMO and business leaders. Exercises diplomacy and tact in discussions with client management on controversial subjects.

OUTSIDE RELATIONSHIPS :

Frequent contact with client management to exchange information and / or make presentations on information systems concepts.

Reviews and maintains contact with selected user groups with similar problems and user organizations.

Attends outside technical meetings as directed making presentations when necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Work Experience

Skills and Abilities

Must have experience identifying defining quantifying and solving complex or highly technical project-related issues on a regular basis. Must have experience using creativity / innovative approaches to resolve issues despite minimum lead times and with minimum requirement definition for changes or projects of major proportions.

Licenses and Certifications

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Additional Accountabilities and Essential Functions

The Physical Demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the Accountabilities and Essential Functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions

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Additional Information

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In support of our mission to improve the health and lives of Louisianians Blue Cross encourages the good health of its employees and visitors. We want to ensure that our employees have a work environment that will optimize personal health and well-being. Due to the acknowledged hazards from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and in order to promote good health our company properties are smoke and tobacco free.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana performs background and pre-employment drug screening after an offer has been extended and prior to hire for all positions. As part of this process records may be verified and information checked with agencies including but not limited to the Social Security Administration criminal courts federal state and county repositories of criminal records Department of Motor Vehicles and credit bureaus. Pursuant with sec 1033 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 individuals who have been convicted of a felony crime involving dishonesty or breach of trust are prohibited from working in the insurance industry unless they obtain written consent from their state insurance commissioner.

Additionally Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is a Drug Free Workplace. A pre-employment drug screen will be required and any offer is contingent upon satisfactory drug testing results.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Business Development,Project Management Methodology,Project / Program Management,PMBOK,Waterfall,Wastewater,Construction Management,Project Management,Project Management Software,Microsoft Project,Budgeting,Contracts

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1