The Project Manager requires an individual with strong leadership, communication and analytical skills who is an expert in project management. This position is responsible for the coordination and completion of projects and oversees all aspects of projects, sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of projects. Prepares reports for management regarding status of projects. This position requires a wide degree of creativity and latitude. Keys to success for this position are based on the incumbent's ability to work successfully with project team members while still ensuring that projects are completed with quality and within allotted schedule.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage projects from inception to release or full project life cycle
• Facilitate, lead and record team project meetings
• Manage multiple projects of significant complexity, ensuring that all projects are delivered on time and on budget and that issues are raised to management
• Implement detailed project plans, budgets, and resource allocations using the company's Project Management Methodology as well as project management software.
• For agile projects, assist business and technical resources with defining user stories, prioritizing the backlog, sprinting, and defining & executing iterative production releases
• Keep the project management reporting dashboard updated with appropriate information
• Prepare and compile periodic progress reports for the Executive Leadership Team.
• Mentor and train other team members, at times from other areas, on the planning and implementation of a project
• Provide weekly status reports on each project assigned
• Keep detailed work plans updated with status and resource changes
• Follow up on all actions. Identifies risk areas and problems that could inhibit successful project completion and develop mitigation processes (RAID)
• Develops and implements detailed project plans including delineated project tasks, resource requirements, interdependencies and schedules
• Applies analytical skills to make critical decisions and recommendations to solve project related problems
• Other duties as assigned
• Corporate Compliance Responsibility - As an essential function, responsible for complying with Neighborhood's Corporate Compliance Program, Standards of Business Conduct, applicable contracts, laws, rules and regulations, policies and procedures as it applies to individual job duties, the department, and the Company. This position must exercise due diligence to prevent, detect and report unlawful and/or unethical conduct by fellow co-workers, professional affiliates and/or agents

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree, and/or years of relevant experience and background to equate to the degree
• Three (3)+ years Project Management experience
• Three (3)+ years of Project experience with system implementations
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and to interact, influence and negotiate effectively at all levels of management
• Experience working within agile frameworks like Scrum and operating in a hybrid waterfall/agile environment, including work in agile tools such as Jira
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline driven environment
• Confident team builder and leader with strong motivational skills
• Adept in problem solving and resolving conflict with effective negotiation skills
• Proficient in MS Office (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio and Outlook) and SharePoint
• Demonstrated ability to establish detailed project plans with accurate resource and time estimates
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Must have outstanding time management and organizational skills
• Ability to work cooperatively with a large group of team members from cross-functional business areas
• Experienced in demonstrating leadership, influence and collaboration in a matrix-managed environment.
• Experience in creating Ad-hoc presentations or project reports

Preferred:

• PMP; Project Management Professional credential and/or PMI-ACP; (Agile Certified Practitioner) certification
• Three (3+) years' experience in a medical and/or HMO environment
• Experience in mentoring and training colleagues

Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.