Program Manager Job in Maryland Heights 63043, Missouri US
Essence Healthcare
About the Job
Lumeris is a division of ESSENCE responsible for enabling healthcare payers and other delivery organizations to engage physicians in meaningful ways to generate more value for their healthcare dollar. Through a unique combination of technology, content, and services, Lumeris helps our customers leverage the data they possess across the continuum of care. This information, when properly aggregated, analyzed, packaged, and shared with physicians, can produce a significant impact on many aspects of care. When combined with evidence-driven decision support and value-based payment methods, the result is a measured improvement in healthcare costs and outcomes. The Program Manager will be responsible for managing large, matrixed, complex projects across the organization.
- Leads people who manage projects involving cross-functional teams focused on delivery of internal products or administrative systems.
- Oversees plans and directs schedules as well as project budgets.
- Monitors programs/projects from initiation through delivery and interfacing with internal customers or department personnel.
- Organizes project activities and interdepartmental meetings; ensures communication facilitates completion of the program/project on schedule and within budget constraints.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Directs the efforts of others in the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives of the group.
- Manages the hiring, staffing and maintaining of a diverse and effective workforce.
- Responsible for career development/planning, performance and pay discussions of team members.
- Manages multiple projects, within given constraints of time, budget and quality.
- Ensures the scope, schedule, and costs are reasonable and achievable.
- Allocates work among project management team. - Conducts periodic reviews to ensure each project or module is on track, and conducts post-project reviews.
- Interacts with business owners to ensure their needs are being met.
- Brings together different functional perspectives both within and outside the project teams.
- Ensures all project documentation is kept up to date and communicated to the relevant stakeholders on a timely basis.
- Oversees projects through implementation and ensures sustainability.
- Global Career Level MA MB MC MD - Accomplishes results through the management of a team of professional team members and/or leaders.
- Acts as an advisor to subordinate leaders or staff members.
- Develops and administers schedules, objectives, and goals.
- Delegates clearly and consistently.
- Independently determines approach to managing teams and daily operations.
- Provides guidance, constructive input and motivation to team. - May develop an external presence through publication or speaking engagements.
- Assumes responsibility for sales objectives.
- Undergraduate degree and 8-10 years relevant experience or Graduate degree and 6-8 years relevant experience.
- Prove track record of managing people directly and influencing cross-functional teams in a heavily matrixed environment
- 10+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- 6+ years managerial/leadership experience.
- Understanding of enterprise software product development and delivery
- Understanding of Informatics and Business Intelligence Analycs
- Healthcare industry is required
