Medicaid Project Manager

Insight Global; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a highly-skilled Lead Project Manager to join a national healthcare client’s State Government Solutions team. The contract-to-hire role runs through the end of 2027, with potential conversion to full-time based on performance.

You’ll support an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) with data migration tasks, transitioning from DDI to M&O while leading the ongoing changes. The project is currently behind schedule; you’ll manage the client relationship, direct a matrixed team

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT project management experience.
• 2+ years of client-facing experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience across every stage of the SDLC.
• 2+ years of project management experience with a State Medicaid Agency or a large healthcare management organization.
• 2+ years of project management experience on an EDW project that included data migration.
• Ability and willingness to work with an HST-based client, including regular evening meetings.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Define work strategies that line up resources with client goals, and oversee planning and execution of a large-scale implementation.
• Manage the client relationship, control scope, and prevent scope creep.
• Drive internal and cross-functional teams to deliver on time, and manage dependencies between them.
• Spot issues early and get ahead of them, including risk management and issue resolution.
• Report project status to client and internal leadership, and work through challenges with key client stakeholders.
• Direct how the technical pieces of related projects and programs fit together.
• Gather, maintain, and update deliverables, project documentation, business flows, and lessons-learned documents.
• Explain project details clearly to both business and technical audiences, including the client.
• Run analyses, needs assessments, and cost/benefit assessments.
• Monitor financials to keep the project within budget.
• Improve processes over time to raise performance and value.

Skills

IT project management

Client-facing

SDLC

Healthcare/Medicaid experience

EDW data migration

Evening meetings (HST)

MS Office

Travel up to 10%

Tools

MS Project

MS Visio

MS Office Suite

Job description

• 5+ years of IT project management experience
• 2+ years of client-facing experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience across every stage of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 2+ years of project management experience with a State Medicaid Agency or a large healthcare management organization
• 2+ years of project management experience on an EDW project that included data migration
• Ability and willingness to work with an HST-based client, including regular evening meetings
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio)
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Client-facing experience with a State Medicaid Agency
• A track record of building collaborative client relationships, managing risks and issues, and planning and delivering multiple maintenance or enhancement releases per year, including documentation, with a matrixed team
• 2+ years of experience on a project in the M&O phase
• Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions
• Experience stabilizing or recovering a project that's behind schedule

Job Description

An employer is looking for a highly-skilled Lead Project Manager to join one of our largest national healthcare clients. This is a contract-to-hire role that runs through the end of 2027, with the option to convert to full time based on performance. You'll join the client's State Government Solutions team, which supports the State of Hawaii on a large Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) implementation. That work includes data migration and a set of custom dashboards the state has requested. The project is moving from Design, Development & Implementation (DDI) into Maintenance & Operations (M&O), and this person will deliver the remaining DDI functionality, lead that transition, and support new changes as they come up.

The project is currently behind schedule and in the red. Some phases have been delivered, but others are still outstanding. We need someone who stays calm under pressure, is comfortable managing the client relationship with confidence, and can step in right away to get things back on track. This is a hands-on role. Beyond directing others, you'll do the core project management work yourself, with help from a project scheduler and deliverables lead. You'll work within a highly matrixed team spread across the U.S., report to the hiring manager, and take day-to-day direction from the Account Manager supporting the State of Hawaii.

Schedule:

Standard hours are 8am-5pm in your local time zone. You'll need to be flexible to meet with the client during Hawaii Standard Time (HST) business hours. Expect evening meetings 2-3 times per week. Most end around 6pm ET/CT, and about once a week one runs until 7-8pm. Start times are flexible on those days. Up to 10% travel may be required.

Responsibilities:

• Define work strategies that line up resources with client goals, and oversee planning and execution of a large-scale implementation
• Manage the client relationship, control scope, and prevent scope creep
• Drive internal and cross-functional teams to deliver on time, and manage dependencies between them
• Spot issues early and get ahead of them, including risk management and issue resolution
• Report project status to client and internal leadership, and work through challenges with key client stakeholders
• Direct how the technical pieces of related projects and programs fit together
• Gather, maintain, and update deliverables, project documentation, business flows, and lessons-learned documents
• Explain project details clearly to both business and technical audiences, including the client
• Run analyses, needs assessments, and cost/benefit assessments
• Monitor financials to keep the project within budget
• Improve processes over time to raise performance and value