What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Project Manager position at Concordia Plans?
Technical Project Manager
At Concordia Plans we care for those who serve by providing excellent retirement, healthcare, and benefit services. We are seeking an experienced project manager to work cross functionally across our organization to minimize risk, ensure alignment and track timely adoption of projects.
Concordia Plans has a reputation for outstanding culture, most recently winning the 2025 Top Workplaces USA award, with additional special awards for Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits and Purpose & Values. This honor goes to the country’s best employers with high performing people-first cultures. Our recent history of employment excellence also includes being awarded the 2023-2025 Top Workplaces USA award, the Top Workplaces 2021 - 2024 St. Louis Post-Dispatch awards and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition’s 2020 Business Health Culture Award. Established more than 50 years ago providing service in 6,000 communities throughout the United States, we are mission focused professionals united to care for those caring for our community.
At Concordia Plans we are focused and flexible. Embracing the new normal, pioneering ways to continue to support work life balance in our family first culture. We offer competitive compensation with a benefit package, including a pension plan, 403(b), health insurance at no cost to the employee, and much more. With this exciting opportunity you can combine experience, talent, and passion as part of our team at Concordia Plans serving the workers of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod.
Concordia Plans has a reputation for outstanding culture, most recently winning the 2025 Top Workplaces USA award, with additional special awards for Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits and Purpose & Values. This honor goes to the country’s best employers with high performing people-first cultures. Our recent history of employment excellence also includes being awarded the 2023-2025 Top Workplaces USA award, the Top Workplaces 2021 - 2024 St. Louis Post-Dispatch awards and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition’s 2020 Business Health Culture Award. Established more than 50 years ago providing service in 6,000 communities throughout the United States, we are mission focused professionals united to care for those caring for our community.
At Concordia Plans we are focused and flexible. Embracing the new normal, pioneering ways to continue to support work life balance in our family first culture. We offer competitive compensation with a benefit package, including a pension plan, 403(b), health insurance at no cost to the employee, and much more. With this exciting opportunity you can combine experience, talent, and passion as part of our team at Concordia Plans serving the workers of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod.
The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for facilitating business and technology system projects, establishing, and working with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors across the organization. This position is responsible to develop details related to project scope, objectives, deliverables, budget, schedule, quality standards and direct and monitor project execution, communication and change management to minimize risk, ensure alignment and track timely adoption of projects.
Essential Job Functions
- Responsible to plan, initiate and manage multiple on-going business and technology projects from inception to closure to ensure timely execution.
- Develop detailed project plans, defining and/or developing scope, risk, resources, timelines, metrics, budget, communication and deliverables from inception to debrief.
- Organize and lead project kick-offs, planning sessions, and reporting, functioning as a liaison between the executive team and stakeholders, department and vendors contacts.
- Develop, adjust and maintain project documents such as project charter, project plan, risk register and change log, while managing change communication, scope creep, ambiguity and stakeholder expectations.
- Facilitate and coordinate project meetings, workshops, presentations and reviews.
- Practice good stewardship and accountability in the oversight of project resources and budgets including continuous assessment of resource allocation, adaptation to changing conditions, adjusting project parameters and providing awareness and fiscally responsible recommendations.
- Follow established standards and best practices, metrics and reporting requirements to ensure project quality, compliance and proper scope.
- Track and provide continuous reporting on timelines, progress, deliverables, issues, risk and other relevant factors to stakeholders.
- Conduct project closure and handover activities to set-up for and track smooth transition.
- Follow robust debrief process to ensure thorough analysis, assessment, learning, innovation and opportunity.
- Report on project evaluation outcomes to support continued development and support of a process improvement culture.
- Utilize project management systems and technology to ensure complete, clear and timely project documentation is maintained.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Five years of experience as a project manager, business analyst or closely related skillset
- Demonstrated success in previous roles driving cross functional projects and implementations preferred
- Experience utilizing project management methodologies
- Experience in information systems or information technologies; HRIS, preferred
- Salesforce experience preferred
Competencies
- Collaboration: Builds authentic relationships and harnesses the energy of others. Adapts interpersonal style and models productive dialogue and debate.
- Project Management: Strong organization and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent long and short term projects. Must be able to identify programmatic needs and prioritize tasks and resources to achieve project goals effectively and efficiently.
- Influence Others: Is a positive influence across and outside the organization. Paints a compelling picture and gains commitment for forward momentum.
- Communications: Ability to articulate information simply and concisely in person, over the phone and in writing, and to reflect Concordia Plans values in all internal and external communications.
- Customer orientation: The ability and willingness to show care and concern while finding out what the customer wants and needs and to act accordingly in a timely manner, making the customer feel valued.
- Teamwork: Collaborates across the organization and within own team: Participates fully on assigned and adjunct teams, fosters a collaborative spirit, builds collaborative networks with internal staff and vendor representatives.
- Outcomes Oriented: Brings a bias for action and achieves meaningful, timely, and measurable results. Lives continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Change agent: Is energized by change and welcomes new opportunities, quickly learns and adapts to change, personal maturity to evaluate and manage uncertainty and stress effectively. Ability to blend creativity and improvisational thinking with sensitivity to tradition and history.
- Detail driven: Focuses on thorough, accurate and complete work product with high attention to detail.
- Trustworthy: Acting with integrity, being honest and credible, reliable, having positive intent, able to present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
