Senior Project Manager - OSS Business Initiatives Multiple Locations

You love to challenge the status quo. You thrive on exceeding goals, always making things better than you found them. Bring that passion to UnitedHealth Group and join us on a mission to help people live healthier lives. As a Business Project Manager, you'll work alongside a high caliber team as you drive innovation and business forward. You'll roll up your sleeves as you coordinate complete projects, defining performance and results. When you get into the driver's seat of this role, you will show your expertise in determining time frames, allotment of staffing and funding resources and leading others in the organization to make meaningful process improvements. This is no small opportunity.

As a Senior Project Manager - OSS Business Initiatives, you'll shift scope definition, risk identification, methodology and resource allocation to a gear you didn't even know you have. You'll take on tough challenges and create innovative solutions. Along the way, you'll grow and develop at a pace that energizes your career while you do your life's best work(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead or help develop  program or project scope statements, in consultation with applicable stakeholders (e.g., program/project charter, Statement of Work, Business Vision Document)


• Work with resource managers to drive the identification of the skills, duration and effort required for successful project execution


• Collect, analyze and maintain financial forecast information (e.g., labor, hardware, software), using input from applicable sources


• Establish/apply quality objectives, criteria, standards and levels using appropriate quality management methods, with stakeholder input (e.g., key performance indicators, scope definition)


• Develop, communicate and implement program/project risk/issue management plans and strategies (e.g., mitigation, avoidance, transfer, acceptance)


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  Effectively and efficiently own the successful delivery of all assigned projects including managing all cross-function work stream owners (real estate, training, telecom technology, human capital, etc.) - function as the project General Manager


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  Create work order (scope) and charter as required


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  Create and manage project plan, issue log, lessons learned, close document, fmea, control plan, etc.


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  Identify team roles and skill sets required to quickly create a highly functioning team


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  Direct the team and resolve conflicts: direct team to complete projects on time, within budgetary guidelines - escalate issues appropriately


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  Assesses progress and reports status to management and key constituents (i.e.: sites, other functional leaders, etc): timely written or verbal communication of project status to management - highlight areas of concern or needed assistance - track status of project timelines and milestones and communicate with management and team member


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  Responsible for overall quality review of project, ongoing and final evaluation and documentation of team/project procedures


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  Consistently utilize standard project management tools and adhere to document retention standards


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  Other duties as assigned by management

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree


• 4+ years of project management experience to include experience in tracking, planning  projects, working with large data  sets and making data-driven analytical decisions


• Intermediate level of proficiency with MSWord, Excel, Powerpoint


• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely to leadership


• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and balance multiple priorities and projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS Project,Visio and SharePoint

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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