Senior Project Manager, Cross-Functional Delivery (Remote)

Highmark Health; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 68,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

United Concordia Dental seeks a Project Manager to lead complex initiatives from definition through delivery. You will create delivery clarity, coordinate cross‑functional teams, and maintain evidence of progress in a highly regulated environment.

The role emphasizes governance, RAID management, and stakeholder engagement, with potential remote work. A PMP or similar certification is preferred and DoD requirements apply.

Qualifications

• Minimum: High School Diploma/GED.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• PMP or comparable certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Clarify business need, outcomes, success measures, scope, assumptions, constraints, and acceptance expectations.
• Develop and maintain project charters, integrated plans, schedules, milestones, resources, and delivery assumptions.
• Confirm roles, responsibilities, governance, escalation paths, and working agreements.
• Identify dependencies and incorporate into planning and commitments.
• Align delivery approach to initiative complexity, risk, regulatory exposure, and business need.
• Coordinate cross‑functional delivery across business, technology, operations, clinical, regulatory, finance, data, vendors.
• Facilitate working sessions and project meetings with clear purpose, agendas, owners, due dates, and follow‑through.
• Track progress against scope, schedule, cost, quality, readiness, and delivery commitments.
• Maintain delivery momentum by resolving barriers and escalating constraints.
• Validate that deliverables meet requirements before milestones or phase transitions.
• Coordinate implementation, stabilization, transition‑to‑operations, and project closure activities.
• Identify, document, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies in a RAID log.
• Define owners, mitigation actions, target dates, contingency plans, and escalation thresholds.
• Maintain a traceable decision log and translate decisions into updated plans and communications.
• Escalate material risks, issues, dependencies, and decision needs early with context and options.

Skills

Project planning

RAID management

Sponsor engagement

Executive communication

Meeting facilitation

Problem solving

Budget & vendors

Change readiness

Team leadership

Organization

Education

High School Diploma/GED

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

Tools

PMP certification

Job description

United Concordia Dental seeks a Project Manager to lead complex initiatives from definition through delivery. You will create delivery clarity, coordinate cross‑functional teams, and maintain evidence of progress in a highly regulated environment.

The role emphasizes governance, RAID management, and stakeholder engagement, with potential remote work. A PMP or similar certification is preferred and DoD requirements apply.