Project Manager: Lead Complex Initiatives (Remote)

Highmark Health; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 68,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex initiatives from definition through delivery within a DoD‑contract environment, ensuring governance and timely outcomes. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams across business and technology, establish baselines, and manage risks and decisions to keep initiatives on track.

Responsibilities include facilitating sessions, maintaining integrated plans, tracking scope, schedule, cost, and quality, and coordinating

Qualifications

• Minimum High School Diploma or GED.
• Preferred Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, healthcare administration, operations, project management, or related field.
• Experience with structured project lifecycle, governance, audit, or compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Establish a clear, realistic, and controlled foundation for delivery.
• Develop and maintain fit‑for‑purpose project charters, integrated plans, schedules, milestone maps, resource needs, and delivery assumptions.
• Confirm roles, responsibilities, decision rights, governance forums, escalation paths, and working agreements.
• Identify internal and external dependencies and incorporate them into planning, sequencing, and commitments.
• Align the delivery approach and level of control to initiative complexity, risk, regulatory exposure, and business need.
• Coordinate cross‑functional execution across business, technology, operations, clinical, regulatory, finance, data, vendors, and other delivery partners.
• Facilitate working sessions and project meetings with clear purpose, agendas, decisions, owners, due dates, and follow‑through.
• Track progress against approved scope, schedule, cost, quality, readiness, and delivery commitments.
• Maintain delivery momentum by resolving routine barriers, reinforcing accountability, and escalating constraints that cannot be resolved within the project team.
• Validate that deliverables meet documented requirements and acceptance criteria before milestones or phase transitions are considered complete.
• Coordinate implementation, stabilization, transition‑to‑operations, and project closure activities.

Skills

Project planning and schedule mgmt

RAID and change management

Sponsor and stakeholder engagement

Executive and delivery‑team comms

Facilitation and action mgmt

Problem solving and negotiation

Financial and vendor coordination

Change readiness and transition

Team leadership and accountability

Organization and follow-through

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, healthcare administration, operations, project management, or related field

Advanced education or professional development in project management or related discipline

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex initiatives from definition through delivery within a DoD‑contract environment, ensuring governance and timely outcomes. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams across business and technology, establish baselines, and manage risks and decisions to keep initiatives on track.

Responsibilities include facilitating sessions, maintaining integrated plans, tracking scope, schedule, cost, and quality, and coordinating