Construction Management, Business Application Manager III

Kaiser Permanente

Oakland, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Acceptance Testing, Budgeting, Business Analysis, Business Processes, Business Solutions, Business Support, Change Management, Community of Practice (CoP), Construction Industry Software, Construction Management, Construction Support, Corporate Compliance, Cross-Functional, Customer Acquisition, Data Entry, Documentation, Establish Priorities, Federal Laws and Regulations, Financial Projections, Forecasting, Identify Issues, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, Mentoring, Metrics, Operational Support, People Management, Performance Analysis, Problem Solving Skills, Project Evaluation, Project Planning, Project Tracking, Project/Program Coordination, Project/Program Management, Requirements Management, Resource Management, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Sales/Support Engineering (SE), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Schedule Development, Software Administration, Software Design, State Laws and Regulations, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Time Management, User Documentation, Vendor/Supplier Relations
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for having comprehensive knowledge of IT methodologies and design/construction principles. With oversight from management, managing established priorities and providing status updates, facilitating knowledge transfers to various groups, troubleshooting design and construction software application and associated tools, documenting incidents/defects and associated resolutions, managing user access, providing support in the maintenance of software application and associated tools, applying business analysis tools / method / techniques across a range of small scale projects to elicit business requirements, assessing information gathered, identifying discrepancies/conflicting requests, distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs, driving and challenging business units on their assumptions of how their design can be successfully implemented, conducting and evaluating user acceptance testing, identifying risks and implementing mitigation plan developed by management, providing post-implementation support, creating or peer reviewing user documentation, identifying potential impacts of design and configuration based on SOX and Internal Control, and appropriately communicating to management as needed.

Essential Responsibilities:

Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.

Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.

Supports construction operations by:

• Providing specific guidance and coordination with the support team following narrowly defined parameters; • Using judgment and discretion to interpret guidelines to assist with the resolution of non-standard problems; • Communicating between the project team and others inside and outside of the organization.

Supports construction deliverables by:

• Working on smaller to larger organizational projects from initiation to close-out; • Developing, analyzing, and executing project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast; • Assisting in project financials; • Monitoring project performance against plan and provides input and justification for costs and budget impact; • Coordinating with project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project; • Allocating resources, establishes schedules, and makes task assignments with minimal oversight from more senior project managers.

Contributes to vendor relationship management by:

• Supporting vendor relationship management and assisting with vendor assessments through updating department databases with changes to vendors active status as needed; • Providing guidance to vendors with challenges to meet requalification financial criteria; • Obtaining necessary documentation from vendors to complete new vendor qualification and annual vendor requalification and documenting vendors file as appropriate.

Acts in accordance with KP compliance by:

• Utilizing a full working knowledge of the precepts of Corporate Compliance and Principles of Responsibility to maintain confidentiality, protect the assets of the organization, act with integrity, report observed fraud and abuse, and comply with applicable local, state, and federal laws and program policies and procedures.

Contributes to the management of knowledge and documents by:

• Utilizing existing documentation to build and enhance comprehensive foundational knowledge of policies and procedures; • Developing, reviewing, and updating template documents independently; • Facilitating training and knowledge management practices to increase knowledge (e.g., Business Process Package, Community of Practice).

Supports the use of data and metrics throughout construction management process by:

• Performing standard and non-standard data entry to support planning and scoping with minimal day-to-day guidance from a supervisor; • Utilizing comprehensive foundational knowledge of metrics to monitor and improve upon their own performance.

About the Company

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Kaiser Permanente

At Kaiser Permanente, we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Driven by our mission to provide the highest quality preventive medicine, we are committed to eliminating health care disparities, and to making lives better through innovation, technology, and research. Our desire to deliver the best possible care inspires us to promote wellness among our members, communities, and each other. It also fuels our belief that everyone — regardless of circumstance — deserves access to affordable care, which further drives our motivation to expand our reach. Founded nearly 80 years ago, our unique business model sets us apart — positioning us to drive improvements across the industry and around the world.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1945
WEBSITE
http://www.kp.org/careers