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IT Project Manager - Minnetonka, MN
Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
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Location | Minnetonka, MN Minnetonka, Minnesota |
About this job
Do you want to Impact decisions to help people live healthier lives?
If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. At UnitedHealth Group, we're changing the landscape of our industry. Here, you'll shift your leadership skills into a gear you didn't even know you had as a IT Project Manager. You'll put your project management skills to work as you empower business partners and team members to create and improve business processes. You will design processes, project implementations and diagnose process improvement opportunities as you develop innovative solutions.
You'll be in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. Yes, we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and start doing your life's best work.(SM)
As an IT Project Manager in our Enterprise Program Management Office, you will be accountable for project and program management activities associated with the Healthcare Reform agenda. This is a highly visible role which will interface with a variety of business and technology leaders.
Primary Responsibilities:
Engaging business leaders to fully understand requirements
Planning, managing, and leading projects (as a program) across 90 interdependent applications
Owning end-to-end accountability for successful quarterly releases
Initiating project definition and planning activities for global teams
Structuring projects into program portfolios
Ensuring proper alignment, integration and visibility across all stakeholders
Define and manage a complex set of upstream and downstream business and technology dependencies
Driving consensus and decision-making with business and IT management teams
Influencing leaders to balance competing priorities
Monitoring program activities to ensure on scope, on time, on budget and on quality delivery and on benefit
Maintaining visibility on day-to-day activities with program teams and ensuring sufficient face time with key stakeholders
Providing status reporting to stakeholders on a regular basis
Mitigating risks and addressing program/project obstacles as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 7 years Project Management experience
- Strong drive, sense of urgency and perseverance
- Proven financial forecasting experience
- Demonstrated success leading IT projects with matrixed project teams
- Proven success leading projects with $1M+ budgets
- Knowledge of the SDLC
- Demonstrated cross-application program planning and execution skills
- Proven ability to get into the details of programs in order to drive them to fruition
- Must be able to work in Minnetonka office
- Health care insurance industry background
- PMP certification
- Experience with HIPAA or other EDI related compliance
- Big 4 or Professional Services experience