Project Manager - Payment

Cotiviti; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Cotiviti is seeking a Project Manager for Payment to own delivery from initiation to close, ensuring realistic plans, aligned stakeholders, and disciplined execution. You will manage RAID logs, status reports, and risk mitigation while coordinating with PMO, product, and operations teams.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years in project management, PMP/CAPM, and experience with cross-functional projects using agile and waterfall approaches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years of project management experience required.
• Certification in Project Management (PMP, CAPM, or equivalent).
• Experience running cross-functional projects with disciplined status, RAID, and timeline management.
• Strong organizational, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Agile and waterfall delivery methods.
• Smartsheet/Jira/PM tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Facilitate team meetings, decisions, issue resolution, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Coordinate scope, schedule, resources, communications, and delivery readiness.
• Escalate risks and tradeoffs in a timely manner.
• Ensure project artifacts, governance requirements, and documentation are complete.
• Owns one project's scope, timeline, and execution discipline.
• Share best practices with project managers, product owners, business analysts as appropriate.
• Proactively manage risks and issues, and escalation in a timely manner.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Job description

Overview

The Project Manager - Payment owns delivery of defined project(s) from initiation through close. Ensures plans are realistic, stakeholders are aligned, execution stays on track, and risks/issues are actively managed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Facilitate team meetings, decisions, issue resolution, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Coordinate scope, schedule, resources, communications, and delivery readiness.
• Escalate risks and tradeoffs in a timely manner.
• Ensure project artifacts, governance requirements, and documentation are complete.
• Owns one project's scope, timeline, and execution discipline.
• Utilize AI responsibly, to amplify productivity to draft status reports, maintain RAID logs, generate meeting notes and action items, build project plans, and prepare stakeholder communications.
• Share best practices with project managers, product owners, business analysts as appropriate.
• Proactively manage risks and issues, and escalation in a timely manner.
• Key Interfaces -
  • Program Managers
  • PMO Analyst
  • Business stakeholders
  • Product
  • R&D
  • Operations
  • Vendors (if applicable)
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change as the needs of Cotiviti and requirements of the job change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years of project management experience required.
• Certification in Project Management (PMP, CAPM, or equivalent).
• Experience running cross-functional projects with disciplined status, RAID, and timeline management.
• Strong organizational, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Experience with healthcare operations, software delivery, or business transformation preferred.
• Agile and waterfall delivery methods.
• Smartsheet/Jira/PM tooling.
• Project planning.
• Schedule management.
• Issue resolution.
• Meeting facilitation.
• Stakeholder communication.
• Execution discipline.
• Attention to detail.

Cognitive/Mental Requirements:

• Communicating with others to exchange information.
• Problem-solving and thinking critically.
• Completing tasks independently.
• Interpreting data.
• Making timely decisions in the context of a workflow.
• Maintaining focus.
• Applying established protocols in a timely manner.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area.
• Must be able to provide high-speed internet access / connectivity and office setup and maintenance.

Base compensation ranges from $100,000 to $135,000 per year. Specific offers are determined by various factors, such as experience, education, skills, certifications, and other business needs.

Cotiviti offers team members a competitive benefits package to address a wide range of personal and family needs, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage, 401(k) savings plans, paid family leave, 9 paid holidays per year, and 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti. For information about our benefits package, please refer to ourCareers page.

Date of posting: 09/10/2026

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