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The Senior Project Management Specialist leads projects with varying complexity and organizational impact. This role develops integrated project plans, manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and change impacts, and partners across business, product, technology, delivery, process, and change management teams to align execution with business objectives. Builds stakeholder and leadership alignment, provides executive-ready updates, drives issue resolution, and promotes consistent project delivery practices through guidance, governance, and continuous improvement.

Essential Functions:

Leads projects to successful completion:

• Leads projects with varying complexity organizational impact, risk, and visibility
• Develops and manages comprehensive project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and implementation strategies
• Directly manages projects within larger programs, including projects that require integrated planning across business, product, technology, delivery, and process teams
• Establishes integrated project plans that align scope, timelines, dependencies, delivery commitments, process impacts, and operational readiness

Builds alignment among stakeholders and leaders:

• Establishes strong partnerships with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and key stakeholders
• Partners with Program Management, Digital Product Management, Agile Delivery, Business Process Management, and Change Management to coordinate execution across initiatives and align business objectives, product priorities, delivery commitments, process changes, and operational outcomes
• Facilitates resolution of dependencies and competing priorities across business, product, delivery, process management, and technology functions
• Provides executive-ready updates on progress, risks, issues, trade-offs, and outcomes to senior leaders and key stakeholder

Manages project complexity, risk, and organizational impact:

• Identifies, evaluates, manages, and escalates project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, trade-offs, and change impacts
• Ensures appropriate change management, communication, stakeholder engagement, process readiness, and adoption activities are incorporated into project plans
• Develops mitigation strategies and drives resolution of issues that may affect project outcomes
• Develops and delivers executive-ready project status updates that communicate progress, risks, issues, trade-offs, dependencies, delivery confidence, and decision needs to sponsors, stakeholders, and leadership teams

Promotes effective project delivery practices:

• Provides guidance and informal mentoring to project teams
• Supports consistency in project management methodologies, tools, reporting, governance practices, and cross-functional delivery partnership
• Champions continuous improvement in project management practices, governance, reporting, delivery partnership, and process alignment

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• Five years of experience in project management or a related field

• Program or project management certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, or related credentials preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent knowledge of project management methodologies, governance practices, and delivery management principles

• Ability to lead several concurrent projects and drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders

• Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence decisions and resolve conflicts

• Strong ability to manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, process changes, and organizational impacts

• Working knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery approaches and the ability to apply appropriate practices based on project needs

The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either of the following:

A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range. The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, geographic location, and business needs.

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Originally posted on Himalayas

Position Summary

RTS is seeking an organized, proactive, and results-driven Project Manager to lead projects from planning through successful completion. The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating project activities, managing timelines and deliverables, engaging stakeholders, identifying and resolving risks, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and in alignment with business objectives.

This role requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, as well as the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and completion.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Define project scope, objectives, requirements, roles, and responsibilities.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure project activities remain aligned with established goals and timelines.
• Facilitate project meetings, document decisions, and track action items through completion.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, and potential delays.
• Develop mitigation plans and escalate critical issues when appropriate.
• Provide regular project status updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Track project performance against established milestones, KPIs, and success criteria.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, including project plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, and decision records.
• Identify opportunities to improve project management processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Support change management and implementation activities to promote successful adoption of project outcomes.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities while maintaining attention to detail and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–5+ years of project management, program management, operations, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing project plans, status reports, executive updates, and project documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and common project management and collaboration tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a cross-functional or matrixed organization.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies.
• Experience with project management platforms such as Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Monday.com, or Microsoft Project.
• PMP, CAPM, Scrum, or other relevant project management certification is a plus.

Key Competencies

• Project Planning & Execution
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication
• Risk & Issue Management
• Organization & Prioritization
• Problem Solving
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• Accountability & Results Orientation

Originally posted on Himalayas

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Manage/administer smaller programs or a phase of a larger program to ensure that prescribed activities are carried out in accordance with program objectives.
• Assess needs and coordinate resources to enhance existing programs.
• Monitor the progress of program components to ensure the overall goals, schedules, and benefits of the program will be met.
• Document and present program results through operational reports, outcomes studies, presentations and publications. Prepare program reports for superiors.
• Recommend and/or implement program and process changes as needed to achieve program goals and objectives.
• May have budget responsibilities to control expenditures in accordance with budget allocations, together with the conformance to timing, limits and usage of funding as agreed upon in the spending plan for the assigned program.
• May handle vendor management and administer program contracts to ensure vendors meet service level agreements if applicable.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)

• 3+ years of experience in related field.

• In lieu of degree, 5+ years of experience in related field.

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community 
• Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work 
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs 
• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance 
• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education 
• 401k match including an annual company contribution 

Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs.

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.

Skills

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Originally posted on Himalayas