IT Project Manager - SC & MN

UnitedHealth Group is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about transforming the health care industry. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilites:

• Lead large, complex projects and programs to achieve key business objectives and ensure successful completion


• Participate in the development of business and IT strategy


• Heavily involved with setting up recurring status meetings with the business and IT, fielding questions from the business, as well as handling issues that arise from the business


• Speaking to details of the project to both the business and technical teams from beginning to end of all projects


• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents


• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business


• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences


• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches


• Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams


• Create an maintain dynamic schedules in Microsoft project


• Managing multiple separate schedules and reporting them to a segment-wide view through a MS-Project master schedule


• Use Excel to prepare project and program financial reports, including summarization of extracts from time reporting tools such as Planview


• Use Visio to document technical and business processes clearly, including experience with Swim lanes and other standard procedural diagrams


• Use PowerPoint to document project Status and other forms of project communication


• Managing cross-functional interdependencies


• Formulate and execute escalations for projects with major issues to senior management, and direct follow-up via direct reports or project team members


• Providing risk management and issue/problem resolution as required
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience


• 5+ years of IT Project Management experience


• 5+ years of working hands-on with all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle


• Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions


• 5+ years executing complex projects in an IT environment. Some preference given to executing in healthcare environments and Fortune 100 companies, but not essential


• 5+ years experience managing projects involving complex testing environments including mainframes, such as banks, pension funds, insurance companies


• Experience in a supporting portfolio management role, where this means helping oversee and administer a group of projects and programs loosely connected only by


• common funding sources or common stakeholders


• 5+ years experience with software development projects


• Ability to create and maintain dynamic schedules in Microsoft project


• Considerable expertise in a robust project and program management tools such as Planview, Clarity, HP PPM, MS Project Server or similar


• Experience using Excel to prepare project and program financial reports, including summarization of extracts from time reporting tools such as Planview


• Ability to use PowerPoint to document project status


• Must be able to work in Greenville, SC or Minnetonka, MN office 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with MS Project


• Proficiency with PowerPoint


• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification


• Healthcare Industry experience

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)
 

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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