EDI Project Manager Job in New York, New York US
EDI Project Manager
Location – NYC
Duration – 6 months
The Technical Project Manager is accountable for managing and coordinating technical management activities for our EDI Gateway/5010 project. This person will be responsible for maintaining and tracking project schedules, liaising between the development, QA and User staff and for resolving or escalating issues.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Provide hands-on project management functions, and engage project leadership and key stakeholders through all project phases. Facilitate project meetings, provide up-to-date and candid status updates, as well as ensure visibility and availability of project information. This includes but is not limited to:
· Coordinate detailed QA test and user test tracking from defect triage through deployment and documentation updates
· Monitor and control project scope and ensure proper change control procedures are followed on all change requests
· Identify, assess and monitor risks and make mitigation strategy recommendations
· Work with IT leadership, EPMO and Functional Leads to maintain an up-to-date integrated project plan
· Identify and manage critical project resources
· Maintain up-to-date project documentation and comply with Clients Project Management standards and policies
· Identify, verify and maintain project schedules. Track technical team progress and reforecast timelines
· Interface with IT leadership to remove barriers that slow or prevent the successful delivery of the projects scope and objectives for the technical team
· Work with the Business Analysts on identifying changes to the BRDs and TRDs
· The Technical Project Manager must be able to work effectively with minimal supervision and be able to make data-driven decisions and to guide the project through completion
· PM will work closely with Business leads and IT leaders in delivering the project on time and on budget
· The Technical PM must have excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills. Be able to negotiate and facilitate discussions, at all levels of the organization
· The position will report to the EDI Applications Technical Project Manager and EDI Applications Functional owner
· There will be no direct reports initially but may supervise up to 2 project members later in the project
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
· Ability and experience in medium-sized projects that include high-risk Information Technology (IT) projects with minimal supervision
· Highly organized and excellent time management skills as well as the ability and experience for developing and maintaining comprehensive, integrated and realistic project plans
· Ability to assess and monitor project risk and developing mitigation strategy recommendations
· Strong understanding of project related business case development and cost benefit analysis. Experience in meeting tight deadlines with limited resources
· Possess strong oral and written communication skills, excellent problem solving and negotiation capability, as well as strong interpersonal, leadership and team building ability
· Ability to facilitate project meetings and joint planning sessions with both the Business areas, EPMO, QA and IT
· Working knowledge of healthcare operations, products and services, as well as familiarity and understanding of healthcare related issues
· Expert-level knowledge of project management principles, practices, techniques and tools in accordance with PMI (Project Management Institute) standards
· Working knowledge and familiarity with all or most of the following: IT operations and Infrastructure, systems engineering principles, Mainframe and Distributed systems, systems integration, Web services / eBusiness, and Application Development
· Understanding of project and software development life cycle processes including requirements gathering, analysis, design and testing methodologies
· Good understanding of project life cycle and good understanding of Integration projects using middleware products such as BizTalk, SeeBeyond, etc.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
· Bachelor’s Degree, Masters preferred
· Minimum 7 years professional business experience in the Health Insurance industry preferably with exposure to HIPAA EDI (837, 835, 270/271, 276/277, etc.)
· Minimum 5 years’ experience managing medium size and complex Information Technology and/or Healthcare projects
· Minimum 3 years supervisory experience of medium-sized teams (8+ team members) specifically supervising professional and technical staff
· Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP Certification is a plus
· Highly proficient in utilizing Microsoft Project to develop deliverable-oriented work breakdown structures (WBS), and tracking project progress and interdependencies
· Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, specifically MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio