IT Project Manager Healthcare Exchange - Boston, MA

• Leading overall IT and healthcare related engagements/projects/programs to successful completion
  
• Owning, end-to-end accountability for program delivery
  
• Engaging with client leadership to ensure proper expectation setting
  
• Partnering with stakeholders (internal and external to Optum) to ensure proper strategy, plan, alignment, integration and visibility
  
• Driving consensus and decision-making with business, IT and executive management
  
• Influencing senior leaders to balance competing priorities
  
• Leading matrixed teams to common solutions
  
• Maintaining visibility on day-to-day activities with project teams and ensuring sufficient face-time with key executive stakeholders
  
• Providing status reporting to internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis
  
• Managing program financials
  
• Mitigating risks and addressing program / project obstacles as needed
  
• Leading, coaching, managing and mentoring program and project managers

• 8+ years of IT and healthcare project or program management experience
  
• 5+ years in a consulting environment where you were on-site with clients evaluating technical issues and helping them drive solutions following PM methodology process.
  
• 2 years or more with areas such as: Healthcare Reform, HIX, HIPPA, EMR, ICD10 and other related healthcare industry knowledge
  
• Proven track record of leading enterprise scale, complex programs successfully
  
• Previous matrix people leadership and management skills, including direct experience leading, managing and mentoring teams of project and program managers
  
• Relevant Experience leading programs in the healthcare domain
  
• Prior experience working for a professional services consulting firm desired
  
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experiences; advanced degree preferred
  
• Current client location downtown Boston, Mass.
  
• Future willingness and ability to travel up to 95-100% of the time within the US

• Strong knowledge of Agile development methodology
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage the details of programs /projects in order to drive them to fruition, if required
  
• Excellent communication, collaboration, team building and relationship management skills
  
• Ability to communicate technology matters to business partners, senior executives, and strategic partners
  
• Proven experience interfacing in the cSuite of large organizations
  
• Successful in obtaining results in a large corporate, matrixed environment
  
• Capable of gaining support for initiatives through influence and use of business rationale
  
• Proven ability to make and implement tough decisions

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

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

Job Keywords:  IT, Information Technology, Project Manager, Healthcare, Boston, MA, Massachusetts