Remote Project Manager: Cross-Functional Delivery Lead

Highmark Health; Connecticut; On-site; USD 95,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex delivery initiatives within a healthcare context. The role focuses on disciplined planning, cross-functional coordination, and transparent governance to ensure scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments are met.

The successful candidate will collaborate with sponsors, business owners, analysts, and technology partners to establish integrated plans, manage risks, and drive readiness from initiation through closure, while maintaining

Qualifications

• PMP certification or comparable project management training; Change-management or agile certification is valued where relevant.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, healthcare administration, operations, project management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Advanced education or professional development in project management, business, technology, healthcare administration, change management, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Project planning and integrated schedule management.
• RAID, dependency, decision, and change management.
• Meeting facilitation and action management.
• Financial and vendor coordination.
• Change readiness, adoption, and transition planning.
• Creates a delivery structure that the team understands and actively uses.
• Maintains reliable, current evidence of project health and does not allow key artifacts to become stale.
• Surfaces risks, issues, dependencies, and decision needs early enough for meaningful action.
• Keeps the project team focused on outcomes, commitments, readiness, and acceptance rather than activity alone.
• Completes an explicit, evidence-based handoff from project delivery to operational ownership and benefit follow-through.

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex delivery initiatives within a healthcare context. The role focuses on disciplined planning, cross-functional coordination, and transparent governance to ensure scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments are met.

The successful candidate will collaborate with sponsors, business owners, analysts, and technology partners to establish integrated plans, manage risks, and drive readiness from initiation through closure, while maintaining