IT Project Manager - Remote

Job Description:
Immediate need for a remote-based IT Project Manager to support our customer, a Healthcare Payor organization, with multiple projects that are currently in flight.
The selected candidate will plan, organize, and manage large scale or complex projects for successful delivery of objectives, on time and within budget.
Initiates, engages, and motivates cross-functional teams to deliver results. Identifies and mitigates risk and escalates as needed.

Tracks progress and drive documentation to support project needs.
Ensures end to end leadership for implementations, integration, business readiness and communications.

Essential Functions:
Plans and initiates project resources, prepares budgets, monitors progress, tracks schedules and mitigates risks.
Sequences complex initiatives from start to finish.
Provides end-to-end project management support in terms of reporting, project deliverable tracking and documentation.
Acts as a liaison across all areas to ensure effective and efficient goals, scope, progress, and completion of projects.
Coordinates issues throughout the organization, and externally, when necessary, to promote accurately represented information.
Provides direction and motivation to project teams in a matrixed environment. Drives outcomes by fostering a collaborative culture. Manages relationships with key stakeholders, including management and vendors. Leads the execution of the project.
Evaluates implications of existing or proposed projects, programs, processes, and policies/regulations through the use of critical and creative thinking and recommends improvements.
Performs mid-level advisory consulting work and provides strategic focus. Effectively conveys the big picture and alignment with corporate goals.
Synthesize complex topics and project statuses into executive level presentations and influences decision making. Effectively communicates with all levels of the organization. Liaisons with IT and translates business needs into technology related action plans.

Required Skills:
Minimum of 8 years of IT Project Management expertise. Ideal project support categories are MS 365, LOS, Windows, etc. but open to diverse IT backgrounds, Application side is preferred.
Pristine communication skills for reporting purposes. Able to extract technical information from technical stakeholders and articulate those findings to VP level stakeholders
Budget management of projects that value $500K+
Strong Risk Management / Risk Identification skills
PPM tool experience: Clarity or KeyedIn is preferred
Working within a Healthcare Payor organization is required. BCBS is highly preferred.

Preferred Skills:
PMP Certification
FACETS knowledge