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The Senior Project Manager manages all aspects of a project, from start to finish, so that it is completed on time and within budget. The Senior Project Manager work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

The Senior Project Manager role overview:

• Designs, communicates, and implements an operational plan for completing the project; monitors progress and performance against the project plan; takes action to resolve operational problems and minimize delays.
• Identifies, develops, and gathers the resources to complete the project.
• Prepares designs and work specifications; develops project schedules, budgets and forecasts; and selecting materials, equipment, project staff, and external contractors.
• Communicates with other operational areas in the organization to secure specialized resources and contributions for the project.
• Conducts meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the project. Sets priorities, allocates tasks, and coordinates project staff to meet project targets and milestones.
• Begins to influence department’s strategy.
• Associate displays a want and desire to ‘step up’, without being prompted or solicited
• Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.

The Senior Project Manager specific role within the Kentucky Medicaid Team includes the following:

• Serves as a mentor for others on the team, particularly those associates new to both Humana and the KY Medicaid Project Management team
• Coordinates, facilitates, and leads Project review meetings
• The opportunity is within Project Management team, Process Improvement (Clinical teams), IT, and cross market (other Medicaid market PM teams and Corporate Medicaid)
• Associate feels empowered to lead conversations related to project momentum and uses discretion when escalating issues to leadership
• Facilitates project management lessons learned:  creates forums to share best practices across teams/associates and coordinates guest speakers/subject matter experts for expanded learning across Project Management team
• Serves as project 4-blocker reviewer – this will ensure consistency, accuracy, and transparency across all high-level projects.  Additionally, associate will ensure that all projects have appropriate documentation and that the documentation is appropriately saved in an easily accessible location
• Oversees Project Management details and methodology, once project is scoped and reviewed for viability and execution.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years’ experience managing cross functional medium to large scale projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Certification in Project Management
• Proficiency in MS Office experience (MS Project, Visio, and Excel).
• Strong communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and hold them accountable for deliverables.
• Comfortable working on new projects with limited knowledge/expertise of the content and be able to learn quickly to implement projects aligned with market and company strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Medicaid knowledge
• Six Sigma
• Flexible and adaptable dealing with ambiguous situations.
• Prior experience in the health solutions industry.

Work at Home Guidance

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is required
• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
• Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

Additional Information

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