Senior Manager – Agile Practice Management (IC)

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

You will support the planning, coordination and tactical execution of IT projects and programs across business and functional areas, as well as the development of presentations and content for key leadership forums. The role offers significant exposure to cross-functional leaders and colleagues across CVS Health and Aetna, as well as professional development opportunities. Assignments are highly complex, have major associated risks with high visibility, and can be sensitive or widely varied requiring experience in applying and adapting project management techniques.

Areas of responsibility include:

• Run programs with budgets of $8M+ consisting of one or more large projects.

• Drive planning activities, including convening meetings, developing agendas and material, and developing reports or support specific teams with tracking and monitoring initiatives.

• Ensure appropriate project deliverables are created, utilized by leaders and are updated over time as each project grows.

• Responsible for interfacing and communicating directly with Senior leaders from all different areas of the company.

• Oversee the development and tracking of timelines and milestone with key internal and external partners to address project objectives.

• Monitor multiple, concurrent project lifecycles by tracking project plans and deadlines for key deliverables and identifying and raising issues requiring resolution.

• Manage projects using CVS agile methodology and/or other Project Management professional practices and standard tools.

• Partner with other Project Leads and owners to coordinate day-to-day initiative progress, identify risks/barriers and work with project leaders to address challenges.

• Where necessary interface with other projects to modify plans when necessary to ensure cross-functional dependencies and inter-dependent projects stay coordinated.

• Work with all stakeholders to define and acquire all necessary resources and to ensure their continual support for project goals.

• Conduct regular project reviews and communicate status of projects in both formal and informal settings.

• Forecast Resources allocations on a weekly basis while maintaining project budget.

• Oversee other Agile Management resources and contractors as well as matrixed members of a project team.

This team operates primarily based on the Eastern Time Zone.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Project Management working with cross-functional teams

• 5+ years of experience in leading program management efforts within a large organization

• 2+ years of experience in overseeing a team of Project Managers/Scrum Masters

• Resource and budget management experience

• Understanding of software development methodologies

• Proficient in Microsoft project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum Master Certification

• Project Management Certification

• Experience in Healthcare industry

• Understanding of software development

• Experience working on complex large-scale applications

• Understanding of resource allocations, forecasting, and budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$118,450.00 - $236,900.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other