Senior Portfolio Manager

Highmark Health; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health in Pittsburgh seeks a Senior Portfolio Manager to own strategic planning, governance, and performance of an assigned portfolio. You will partner with executive leadership to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, oversee initiative execution, and measure outcomes to deliver enterprise value.

In this role you will coordinate delivery across product teams, develop schedules and budgets, maintain artifacts, and ensure clear stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare, business, IT or related field required.
• 5 years of project delivery experience and 5 years in client relationships required.
• PMI certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic planning, governance, and performance for an assigned portfolio.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify opportunities and prioritize investments.
• Oversee initiative execution, manage risks and dependencies, and measure outcomes.
• Coordinate delivery across product teams and maintain updated artifacts and schedules.
• Develop budgets, manage profitability, and ensure timely stakeholder communication.
• Escalate delivery challenges to management and ensure alignment with scope.

Skills

Project Management

Financial Planning and Management

Strong Communication skills

Problem Management and Resolution

Working in a Matrixed Organization

Client expectations management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare, Business, Information Technology or related field

Project Management Professional (PMI)

Job description

Company : Highmark Health Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Portfolio Manager owns the strategic planning, governance, and performance of an assigned portfolio, driving work from concept through value realization. This role partners with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, oversee initiative execution, manage portfolio risks and dependencies, and measure outcomes. The Senior Portfolio Manager serves as the central point of coordination and accountability for portfolio strategy, ensuring organizational resources are aligned to deliver sustainable business value and achieve enterprise objective.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage deliverables based on delivery excellence processes.
• Present project status to stakeholders in both written and verbal form.
• Maintain project risk / issue lists and take action to mitigate risks and address issues.
• Ensure that all stakeholders have full and timely communication of project activities.
• Manage resource utilization on the project through matrixed delivery across the product teams.
• Develop artifacts related to the delivery excellence processes and ensuring that those artifacts are properly maintained and shared with project stakeholders.
• Develop project schedule and work breakdown to ensure complete delivery of the project requirements.
• Create both internal and external budget documents and prepare to manage profitability of overall project.
• Develop resource plans and coordinate with development teams to ensure proper resource alignment.
• Ensure that all project artifacts are updated on expected schedules.
• Maintain project time tracking including estimate to complete as well as ensuring that all hours logged to a project are accurate.
• Closely monitor scope adherence to ensure that all documented requirements are delivered as requested.
• Manage scope through the change control management processes to ensure that all work is properly documented.
• Identify any changes to delivery and actively escalate those challenges to manager or director as appropriate.
• Manage tasks across the matrixed organization to own all aspects of the delivery.
• Build a productive trusting relationship with the stakeholders both internally and externally through communications and accomplishments.
• Accept the projects from the solution process and developing an understanding of the new work. This includes reviewing domains impacted and understanding the end to end process for delivery of the project.
• Identification of stakeholders and ensuring the proper communication is developed for all stakeholders.
• Adhere to all release management stage gates and timelines.
• Ensure that project delivery outputs are properly included in releases including monitoring release weekend activities and reporting progress during the release activities.
• Post closing conduct lessons learned and document process improvements.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare, Business, Information Technology or related field Substitutions None Preferred None

EXPERIENCE

Required 5 years with Project delivery 5 years with Client Relationships Substitutions None Preferred None

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required None Preferred Project Management Professional (PMI)

SKILLS

• Project Management
• Financial Planning and Management
• Strong Communication skills
• Problem Management and Resolution
• Working in a Matrixed Organization
• Client expectations management
• Language (Other than English): None
• Travel Requirement: 25% - 50%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type Hybrid - 3 Days a week onsite - T, W, TH Teaches / trains others regularly Rarely Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Occasionally Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees) Never Physical work site required Yes Lifting: up to 10 pounds Constantly Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds Rarely Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds Never

Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

Compliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies. As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy. Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.

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