The Cigna Group is a health services organization seeking an IT Project Management Advisor to support their Consumer Driven Health Operations. This role involves building strategy, defining requirements, and driving execution for client/vendor projects while managing multiple project deliveries and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Provide expert content/professional leadership on complex IT Project Management assignments/projects
- Responsible for managing, directing and planning several projects simultaneously
- Responsible for coordinating, scheduling and assigning project tasks, team building, and maintaining working relationships with client functional areas outside of IT
- Apply project management methodologies and reporting techniques to indicate project status
- Identify, evaluate and formulate detailed project plan, tracks milestones and schedules; negotiate and modify schedules as well as resources required to meet project objectives
- Evaluate and report progress in terms of quality and performance metrics common to IT projects
- Work with client departments to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support
- Keep informed of technical and operational advances
- Exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives
- Use deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders
- Focus on providing thought leadership within IT Project Management including projects which require understanding of the larger organization
Requirements:
- High school diploma
- 5 years of experience in data exchange/management or IT project management
- 5 years of experience in a client/vendor facing role
- Experience with JCL, test environment management, execution of load jobs and Mainframe/Rumba/TSO
- Broad business knowledge of the health care services industry
- Understanding of business metrics and the ability to translate company/departmental goals and objectives into individual performance goals
- Strong presentation skills, and ability to communicate effectively at all levels, including training delivery
- Strong problem solving skills, including ability to collect, analyze, and offer relevant insights from data for a senior leadership audience
- Ability to understand complex needs of stakeholders at all levels of the organization in order to drive solutions
- Ability to handle competing priorities and display strong collaboration skills and team work
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or related discipline
- Ability to flex seamlessly between high-level strategic work and detailed execution of complex initiatives
- Innovative mindset that will challenge the status quo
- Demonstrate passion around customer focus and improving processes that impact customer satisfaction
- Proven ability to develop strong working relationships and establish a high level of credibility across functional lines of business, IT, and Leadership at all levels
- Strategic mindset enterprise thinker