Senior Project Manager

Role: IT Project Management Senior Advisor

Work Type: Remote

Location: Bloomfield CT

Project Initiative: Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Delivery Domain

Duties:

• Provides counsel and advice to top management on significant IT Project Management matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.
• Responsible for managing, directing and planning multiple complex projects, or occasionally one highly-complex project, consisting of one or more project teams.
• Responsible for coordinating, scheduling and assigning project tasks, team building, maintaining working relationships with client functional areas outside of IT.
• Applies project development methodologies and reporting techniques to indicate project status.
• May manage and direct one or more project teams of project managers, specialists, analysts and programmers to meet complex project objectives.
• Reviews, evaluates and formulates project plans, schedules and budgets. Allocates staff and budget resources to meet changing corporate needs.
• Identifies and negotiates schedules, milestones and resources required to meet project objectives.
• Organizes and guides project operations through the use of methodologies accepted by the industry.
• Evaluates progress and reports progress in terms of quality and performance metrics common to IT projects.
• Modifies schedules as required. Works with client departments to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support.
• Keeps informed of technical and managerial advances in IT.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines.
• Recognized internally as “the go-to person” for the most complex IT Project Management assignments.

Skills:

• Minimum of seven (7) years of Project Management / Program Delivery or applicable experience required.
• Experience coordinating internal and vendor resources for flawless execution of large-scale, fast-paced program.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills is a must; ability to present complex ideas to cross-functional audiences, business implications/priorities to technical teams, and can bring project challenges to management’s attention effectively.
• Proficiency in agile mgmt. tools (Jira, Microsoft suite)
• Required competencies are customer centric, critical thinker, analytical, ability to deal with ambiguity, growth mindset, and technical savvy in a high-paced, start-up environment.

Education:

• Bachelor Degree Required.
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