Job ID: JOB_ID_3053
Job Overview
We are looking for a Senior Project Manager with extensive experience in the Healthcare Payer industry to lead long-term projects. This role requires a PMP certified professional with a strong background in Waterfall, Hybrid, and Agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of payer business processes, regulatory considerations, and operational drivers, with the ability to translate business strategy into structured project plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate business objectives into clear scope, milestones, success metrics, and project and delivery plans.
- Ensure projects deliver measurable business outcomes, not just technical outputs.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders and executive sponsors.
- Build strong relationships by understanding business needs, operational challenges, and regulatory drivers.
- Proactively manage stakeholder expectations, risks, and escalations to successful resolution.
- Establish and maintain strong project governance, reporting, and cadence.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks across business, regulatory, vendor, and delivery dimensions.
- Track budgets, forecasts, and financial performance; support funding and prioritization decisions.
- Coordinate across business, IT, vendors, and consulting partners to ensure aligned execution.
- Manage vendor performance, dependencies, and contractual expectations.
- Collaborate with EPMO and leadership teams to ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
- Project Management, PMP Certified, Healthcare Payer, Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile.
- 12+ years of professional experience delivering enterprise-scale projects or programs, preferably within a healthcare payer organization.
- Deep understanding of payer business processes, regulatory considerations, and operational drivers.
- Strong experience managing large, complex business and technology programs in a Waterfall environment.
- Experience managing multiple projects concurrently with interdependencies.
- End-to-end project lifecycle ownership (initiation through closure).
- Experience working with Stakeholders & Multiple vendors managing Risk, managing expectations.
- Experience working in regulated healthcare environments with compliance-driven timelines.
- Strong business acumen with experience managing executive-level stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage complex budgets, forecasts, and financial tracking.
- Experience leading modernization and migration initiatives, including vendor-led delivery models.
- Strong risk, dependency, and issue management skills across multivendor environments.
- Demonstrated success managing senior business stakeholders, technology leaders, and external vendors.
- Strong negotiation, influence, and consensus-building capabilities.
- Ability to manage expectations, handle escalations, and drive decisions in ambiguous environments.
- Working knowledge of enterprise application landscapes and integration concepts.
- Exposure to technologies such as .NET, Java, cloud platforms (e.g., Azure), and data platforms is beneficial but not hands-on.
- Ability to engage technology teams in outcome-focused discussions without acting as a technical lead.
Special Requirements
Remote, Must be able to support EST Time zone, Visa: GC, USC, TN and GC-EAD.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $60 – $60 per year
Location: Industry, TX
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Recruiter / Employer: HCL
Email: irfan.ulla190@gmail.com
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