Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions tour clients world-wide. Our client is a health and wellness organization located in Pittsburgh and operates health insurance plans in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.
Job Title: Senior Program and Project Manager
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Duration: 6 Month
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- This role is accountable for the successful delivery of large, complex initiatives that support strategic, operational, regulatory, and market readiness objectives.
- This role serves as the single point of accountability for project outcomes, leading cross-functional teams through the full Delivery Excellence lifecycle while managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, and business readiness activities.
- This role partners across business and technology organizations tdrive alignment, resolve obstacles, and achieve committed business outcomes.
Core Responsibilities & Competencies
- Project Delivery Leadership Lead large, complex technology projects (30 60 different product areas) with business readiness activities baked in through the full project management lifecycle ensuring successful delivery of committed business outcomes.
- Projects span both technology and business workstreams, requiring coordination across cross-functional teams tachieve committed business outcomes.
- Strategic Planning & Execution Develop and execute integrated delivery plans that align scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, and business objectives.
- Stakeholder & Executive Engagement Build strong partnerships across business and technology teams while providing clear, outcome-focused communications and recommendations tleadership.
- Risk, Issue & Dependency Management Proactively identify, mitigate, and escalate risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies tprotect delivery commitments.
- Financial & Resource Management Manage project budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, and resource allocation tachieve delivery objectives.
- Governance & Decision Management Ensure compliance with Delivery Excellence standards, governance requirements, project controls, and change management processes.
- Business Readiness & Implementation Drive readiness, operational transition, training, and implementation activities tsupport successful adoption and business outcomes.
- Leadership & Influence Lead cross-functional teams, facilitate decision-making, drive accountability, and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
- Continuous Improvement Leverage lessons learned and best practices timprove delivery processes, governance, and organizational effectiveness.
Critical Success Factors
- Proven ability tlead large, complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Proven ability tlead through ambiguity and drive clarity, alignment, and execution.
- Strong business acumen and delivery management expertise.
- Executive presence and communication skills.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability tinfluence, negotiate, and drive stakeholder alignment.
- Strong financial, risk, and resource management skills.
- Focus on accountability, outcomes, and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree
- Experience: 7 years of experience in project management tinclude successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget and managing multiple projects concurrently.
Skills/Competencies:
- Strong understanding of project management principles and best practices.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability tpresent information clearly and concisely tdiverse audiences.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with a demonstrated ability tprioritize tasks and manage competing demands.
- Proven ability tmanage projects using a wide range of methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in project management in the healthcare or health insurance industry
- Experience with the following tools used at Client: Monday.com, Planview, and Oracle ERP Resource and Financial module.
- Experience with Open Enrollment (OEP/AEP) readiness planning.
- Commercial and Government health insurance product implementation experience,
- Should be able tlead as a Program Manager while grounded in Project Management discipline
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $60–$62.50 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Business Skillsunmatched
- Change Controlunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Delivery Managementunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Financial Riskunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Governmentunmatched
- Health Insuranceunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Oracle ERPunmatched
- Organizational Development/Managementunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Project Controlunmatched
- Project Lifecycleunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Resource Managementunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Schedule Developmentunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Waterfall Model of Software Developmentunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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