Hybrid Project Manager - Growth & Impact

DELTA DENTAL OF ILLINOIS; Naperville (IL); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free dental

Vision & life insurance

401k match

Generous PTO

Job summary

Delta Dental of Illinois, based in Naperville, IL, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead small to mid-sized initiatives within cross-functional teams. You will develop charters, schedules, and budgets while guiding stakeholders through initiation to closeout.

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement and a company-wide bonus program, tuition reimbursement, volunteer time off, an on-site fitness center, and a strong focus on improving operational processes in dental insurance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years of hands-on project management experience.
• PMP or Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) or comparable certification preferred.
• Healthcare/insurance industry or business-process experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads assigned projects and workstreams through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, implementation, and closeout.
• Develops and maintains project charters, scope statements, schedules, milestone plans, resource assignments, requirements, budgets or cost estimates, and other project artifacts.
• Coordinates project activities across business and technology teams, clarifying roles, responsibilities, deliverables, dependencies and due dates.
• Monitors progress against plan and adjusts activities with sponsors and team members to address changes or constraints.
• Manages risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, action items, and change requests; analyzes impact and escalates as needed.
• Facilitates project and process improvement meetings; prepares agendas, documents decisions and drives follow-through to closure.

Skills

Project management

Process improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/ops management or related field

Job description

Delta Dental of Illinois, based in Naperville, IL, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead small to mid-sized initiatives within cross-functional teams. You will develop charters, schedules, and budgets while guiding stakeholders through initiation to closeout.

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement and a company-wide bonus program, tuition reimbursement, volunteer time off, an on-site fitness center, and a strong focus on improving operational processes in dental insurance