Helathcare Functional Project Manager

ZipRecruiter; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an IT Delivery Lead II to manage healthcare payer projects. This role involves overseeing project execution, facilitating requirements gathering, and ensuring adherence to corporate policies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in project management and healthcare systems, providing strategic consulting to senior management. Join a dynamic team that values excellence and empowers employees to thrive in a supportive environment. If you are passionate about driving successful project outcomes and enhancing service delivery, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience in IT delivery and project management.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare payer processing systems required.

Responsibilities

• Manage project execution and IT delivery for healthcare payer projects.
• Oversee multi-year cross-program execution schedules and monitor deliverables.

Skills

Healthcare Payer Processing

Project Management

Technical Consulting

Requirements Gathering

Strategic Planning

Education

Master's Degree in Related Field

Job description

Job Description

Hi All,

My name is Poornachandra Rao and I'm a recruiter at Kyyba. We specialize in recruiting professionals at all levels (both contract and perm). I came across your profile and believe you are a great fit for one of the opportunities. I've included the job description here for your review. Please let me know if you’re interested and would like to discuss this opportunity in greater detail. You can reach me at [phone].

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Job Title: IT Delivery Lead II

Duration: Long Term (12+Months)

Top Three Skills/Experience

1. Manage project execution and IT delivery of healthcare payer projects, providing day-to-day project leadership.
2. Manage multiple work streams of IT project delivery including financial management via close coordination with Business Leads and IT Technical Leads.
3. Able to facilitate/lead requirements gathering sessions and build the business requirements document.

Engagement Description

Has a project team, including senior technical personnel reporting to them. Requires extensive knowledge of the supported business area as well as the area being managed. Reviews scopes/plans and prioritizes one or more projects. Assures adherence to corporate policies and project delivery procedures. Reviews and ensures a high level of quality and service are maintained by meeting or exceeding commitments. Initiates, develops and enforces standards and procedures in support of improved service. May be heavily involved in technical decision-making activities. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Has wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The selected individual will manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects. The individual must be able to straddle in/out of technical and operational status details and produce succinct assessments of the overall direction of the projects at any point on the execution timeline by:

• Overseeing/maintaining a multi-year cross-program execution schedule.
• Monitoring inventory and development of technical widgets, vendor deliverables and other work packages involved in delivery of multiple, concurrent, cross-Program releases.
• Participating in quality reviews of conceptual designs, detail designs and detail test plans.
• Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments.
• Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate.
• Monitoring and supporting the adherence to the overall test strategy across programs.
• Analyzing and documenting information and data required to achieve business goals.
• Conducting formal and informal meetings with appropriate subject matter experts in both large group and one-on-one sessions.
• Facilitating/leading detailed requirement sessions.
• Defining project scope.
• Developing project work breakdown structures.
• Defining and sequencing project activities.
• Working with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations.
• Developing project schedules, budget and resource forecasts.
• Developing project communication plans.
• Developing project quality plans.
• Developing and maintaining project plans.
• Identifying and managing project risks in coordination with project delivery standards.
• Managing project execution and IT delivery, providing day-to-day project leadership.
• Providing status reporting consistent with the project communications plan.
• Managing work stream success through close coordination and cooperation with business leads and IT technical leads.
• Facilitating the IT architecture solution and detailed design.
• Managing project skills and staffing plan and identifying resource gaps and contention issues.
• Managing progress of project milestones and deliverables.
• Facilitating issue resolution and decision framework processes.

Required Skills/Experience

• Mandatory - Prior Healthcare Payer processing systems (Claims, Membership, Eligibility, etc).
• Facilitate the IT architecture solution and detailed design.
• A high proficiency level in specific job-related skills is required.
• Providing strategic planning and comprehensive senior level technical consulting to IT senior management and senior technical staff.
• Evaluating compliance with the organization's technology standards.
• Guiding and consulting with IT management and technical staff regarding use of emerging technologies and associated services.
• Participating in the evaluation, selection and application of new and emerging tools and techniques.
• Has wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs.

Skills/Experience

Minimum 5 years related experience.

Educational Requirements

Master's degree in related field.

Company Description

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances. At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development. Kyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer.