Senior IT Project Manager (Remote)

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close projects for their Enterprise Project Management Office. This role involves overseeing complex corporate initiatives, managing project finances, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Actively plans and manages large scale Waterfall or Agile projects holistically around scheduled program increments and milestones, scope, cost, resource health and risks while collaborating with stakeholders in key meetings resulting in successful project delivery
• Plans and owns project finances which includes timing implications and key payment dates while proactively reporting status, scorecard creation and fulfilling project analysis requests by using critical and creative thinking
• Leads and contributes to vendor selection and procurement activities under program manager guidance while identifying, producing and fulfilling resource and go-live operational plans to insure project success
• Prepares key documents, present business cases and produces other reports as needed while collaborating with stakeholders to bring projects through project funding conversations and initiation ceremonies

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Health Informatics, Information Technology, Information Systems or related discipline OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience
• 5 years experience leading projects in a cross-functional, technical systems implementation
• Strong Financial Management ability including comprehension of project financials, profit and loss and the ability to create and manage and adhere to a broader project budget
• Strong Communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to successfully lead in a matrixed environment
• Experience managing large, cross-functional programs and complex regulatory or business mandates with aggressive timelines is required
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI
• SAFe Scrum Master Certification