Manager, IT PMO

Inland Empire Health Plans

Rancho Cucamonga (CA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

State of the art fitness center on-site

Medical Insurance with Dental and Vision

Life, short-term, and long-term disability options

Career advancement opportunities and professional development

Wellness programs

Flexible Spending Account – Health Care/Childcare

CalPERS retirement

457(b) option with a contribution match

Paid life insurance for employees

Pet care insurance

Job summary

A health plan organization in Rancho Cucamonga seeks a Manager for IT PMO to lead Agile project management efforts. The role involves overseeing a team responsible for delivering technical projects, ensuring adherence to PMO standards, resource allocation, and collaboration across company functions. Candidates should have a minimum of ten years in project management and hold a relevant Bachelor's degree. Strong communication and coaching skills are critical. This position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Qualifications

Minimum of ten years of project management experience with standard tools.
Experience working in team-oriented and collaborative environments.
Solid experience with Architecture teams on story/epics.

Responsibilities

Lead and drive Agile Program and Project Management maturity efforts.
Oversee project planning, resource allocation, and budget management.
Ensure effective agile delivery of technical projects/programs.

Skills

Agile metrics

Team collaboration

Communication

Coaching and mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related program

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Job description

What you can expect!

Find joy in serving others with IEHP! We welcome you to join us in “healing and inspiring the human spirit” and to pivot from a “job” opportunity to an authentic experience!

The Manager, IT PMO leads and drives Agile Program and Project Management maturity efforts and delivers the IT portfolio of projects through PMO standards and process management. The Manager of the IT Project Management Office develops, establishes, executes, leads, collaborates and communicates to drive agile delivery of both IT and business submitted technical projects/programs. This position leads a team of IT Program and Project Managers that is responsible for project managing and delivery of the IEHP enterprise technology project portfolio. This role ensures appropriate resource and budget allocations, project planning completion, project intake, oversight, collaborative sprint and scrum management, and agile methodology application.

Commitment to Quality: The IEHP Team is committed to incorporate IEHP’s Quality Program goals including, but not limited to, HEDIS, CAHPS, and NCQA Accreditation.

Perks

IEHP is not only committed to healing and inspiring the human spirit of our Members, but we also aim to match our team members with the same energy by providing prime benefits and more.

Competitive salary
State of the art fitness center on‑site
Medical Insurance with Dental and Vision
Life, short‑term, and long‑term disability options
Career advancement opportunities and professional development
Wellness programs that promote a healthy work‑life balance
Flexible Spending Account – Health Care/Childcare
CalPERS retirement
457(b) option with a contribution match
Paid life insurance for employees
Pet care insurance

Education & Requirement

Required:

Minimum of ten (10) years of direct work experience in a project management capacity and utilizing standard project management tools, including all aspects of plan development and execution in both technical and functional settings
Must have worked in a team‑oriented and collaborative environment
Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
Must have prior experience in line management, coaching, and mentoring
Must have prior experience integrating and aligning plans within a broad range of internal and external functions
Must have experience working within Waterfall and Agile projects
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Healthcare, Project Management, or related program from an accredited institution

Preferred:

Experience in JIRA/ Azure DevOps or Lean preferred. Prior experience in healthcare
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Key Qualifications

Deep understanding of:
- Agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity
- Fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Healthcare or Insurance information systems, management issues, and current trends
- Lean and Agile principles and processes
- Scrum theory, rules, and practices
- SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
Strong skills in the following areas:
- Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
- Advanced level in Microsoft Excel preferred
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork
Proven ability to:
- Be a manager with a hands‑on approach in a complex fast‑paced business environment
- Present issues and challenges in senior management forums
- Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
- Lead through times of change, disruption, and growth
- Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc
- Present project readouts to Executive level audience (user stories, etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
- Express action‑oriented and creative approaches to IT system issues and problems
- Listen effectively, respond to sensitive inquiries or complaints, cope with an ambiguous or changing environment
- Thrive in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
- Excellently communicate in person, over the phone and through email
- Self‑motivated, organized
- Be passionate and commit to delivering products on time
- Communicate ideas in both technical and user‑friendly language