Healthcare Project Manager in El Dorado Hills or San Francisco

We are currenlty hiring for an experienced Project Manager. The ideal candidate will bring 8-10 years project management experience including work within the healthcare industry. PMP is preferred but not required. This position can sit in either San Francisco or El Dorado Hills. Travel between the offices will be required.

This position requires high energy, be highly motivated, and have demonstrated success in project management. You will be required to plan, lead and motivate design teams, development teams, and QA teams working to replace key computer systems for the company's HMO book of business. The successful candidate must be a team player and enjoy working with other people on challenging projects.

Contact Aileen if you are qualified and interested: ashroyer@kforce.com or 415-678-2321

Responsibilities:
• Directly leads and manages projects throughout all project stages in the areas of communication, schedule, budget, resources, scope, risk, and issues.
• Responsible for leading project teams and managing activities associated with projects that are typically cross-department or organizational entity-wide in scope.
• Work effectively with cross functional staff, including IT, other project managers, multiple levels of leadership, business partners, and vendors as necessary.
• Develop and revise complex project plans and budgets, work with users to understand problems, focus on bringing issues to resolution, and escalate as necessary to meet timelines.
• Responsible for assembling the project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resource needs, and developing a schedule to ensure timely completion of project and meeting interim deadlines of project.
• Prioritize workload to keep projects on track.
• Responsible for understanding problems, bringing issues to resolution, and escalating as necessary to meet timelines.

Requirements:
• Bachelors degree and 8-12 years of relevant product management experience in health care or related industry.
• Experience with HMO and/or Facets project management highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of health care business.
• PMP preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize and manage multiple tasks and concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated skills in resource organization, project/task prioritization and schedule development.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Ability to serve as a change agent and influence behavior across departmental lines and at multiple levels.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including effective delivery of executive level reports and in-person presentations.
• Exceptional use of PowerPoint and Project.
• Successful partnering and collaboration skills.

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