Senior Project Manager

Abacus Insights is transforming how data works for health plans, aiming to make healthcare data usable for faster and more confident decision-making. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex IT projects across the US healthcare payer space, ensuring successful delivery and collaboration among technical, clinical, and client-facing teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end delivery of multiple large-scale projects or multiple smaller projects, ensuring timelines, scope, and quality are consistently achieved
• Coordinate closely with Client Delivery Managers to understand client requirements and translate them into delivery objectives, milestones, dependencies, and sequencing that support an accurate and effective project schedule
• Apply industry standard project management practices across Schedule Management, Risk Management, Communications Management, and Stakeholder Engagement to improve delivery predictability, transparency, and cross-functional accountability
• Partner closely with cross-functional technical teams and client teams to understand delivery needs, constraints, and dependencies, then translate those inputs into clear business-facing decisions, status updates, mitigation plans, and executive-level project health reporting
• Own integrated project schedule management, including work plan development, milestone tracking, dependency management, critical path visibility, variance reporting, and alignment to client requirements
• Maintain disciplined risk and issue management practices, including RAID log ownership, proactive risk identification, mitigation planning, escalation path management, and follow-through on issue resolution
• Conduct detailed resource planning and capacity management to support realistic delivery commitments and schedule execution
• Facilitate regular status meetings to maintain project health visibility, confirm decisions and next steps, and ensure timely escalation of risks, issues, and dependencies

Requirements:

• 10+ years leading technically complex IT projects and programs, with 8+ years in a dedicated Project Manager role and a consistent track record of on-time, high-quality delivery
• Proven ability to drive projects through the full lifecycle — initiation through handover — using standard PMO artifacts including Project Charter, RAID, RACI, schedules, and status reporting
• Demonstrated experience delivering healthcare IT implementations, with payer-side experience strongly preferred. Able to set and hold clear client expectations around scope, timelines, dependencies, and outcomes
• Comfortable managing in hybrid environments that combine Agile team execution with milestone-based planning, schedule governance, and structured stakeholder reporting
• Experience coordinating across software development, data engineering, system integration, QA, and architecture functions — with enough technical fluency to make informed calls on risks and trade-offs
• Strong instincts for proactively identifying, tracking, and escalating risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies. No surprises to stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across client, leadership, and cross-functional audiences. Comfortable defending a position, driving decisions, and holding team members accountable
• Hands-on experience with Smartsheet, Jira, and AI agentic tools to support schedule management, backlog coordination, RAID tracking, and stakeholder reporting
• US Healthcare implementation experience, with direct exposure to healthcare payer environments, enabling faster onboarding and effective client engagement within Abacus' payer‑focused delivery model
• Experience working for or with a US Medicaid payer
• Formal project management certification such as PMP® or PRINCE2®, demonstrating strong grounding in structured delivery governance, planning, and control
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification, supporting effective collaboration with Product, Engineering, and QA teams in Agile or hybrid delivery models