Senior Project Manager Job in Aurora, Colorado US
Senior Project Manager
Kaiser Permanente continues to advance the art of science of health care by bringing state of the art tools together. If you are a creative analytical thinker with strong organizational, project management and team-building skills we invite you to consider the Project Manager position. Essential Functions: - Manages all phases of the project delivery life cycle and provides program and individual project status reports and statistics using the Comprehensive Delivery Process (CDP) and Portfolio Approval Council (PAC) processes. - Manages and escalates program/project issues. - Provides primary interface for given project initiative between the Business Partners, Development and the Technology and the Infrastructure organizations. - Sustains strong ongoing relationships with client project sponsors and senior management during projects. - Utilize negotiation skills to achieve project outcomes around issues, scope, schedule, costs/budget and resources. - Total managed project budget up to $5 million. - Project complexity includes multiple sites and up to 5 interdependent work tracks. - Accountable for the success criteria, development, publication and updating of project deliverables. -- Understands and applies knowledge of change management process on projects. - Responsible for accurate time reporting for project work - Negotiates agreement on project schedule and budgets. - Responsible for measuring on budget reporting for assigned scope. - Directs or may develop the quality/testing strategies for the project. - Determines resource requirements and with support procures resources. - Tracks and reports on project and deliverable status and manages variances. - Develops and manages issue escalation and the resolution process. - Facilitates risk management planning, identification planning and control for projects commensurate with these projects. - Helps evaluate business cases for vendor requirements. - Contributes to monitoring and managing vendor performance to ensure contract commitments are met. - Ensures project alignment with business strategy and architecture. - Develops solutions that align with strategic direction and standards. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications: - 4+ years of application project management experience that may include software development and/or program management - 3+years of experience managing implementations of large-scale projects - Strong people management, communication, inter-personnel and collaboration skills - Strong analytical and project management skills - Openness to occasional travel Preferred Qualifications: - An understanding of products and services included in a Healthcare Care Delivery portfolio - Experience in Healthcare Clinical Systems - Project Management (PMP) certification - Very Strong Microsoft Project skills, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 certification, exam 70-632 preferred.