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Kaiser Permanente · 3 hours ago

Project Manager III - Temporary

Fontana, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

3+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is a leading healthcare organization, and they are seeking a Project Manager III to manage projects of small-to-medium size or components of larger projects. The role involves leading project teams, managing project risks, and ensuring alignment among project stakeholders while overseeing vendor performance and contract negotiations.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome

Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team

Manages projects of small-to-medium size, or components of a larger project from initiation to close-out. Develops, analyzes, and executes project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages project financials for medium size projects. Monitors project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan and provides input and justification for costs and budget impact. Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. Allocates resources, establishes schedules, and makes task assignments

Leads the work of project team members. Requests and coordinates internal and/or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. Provides guidance and feedback to team members

Monitors and identifies project risks, issues, and trigger events by executing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate

Monitors adherence of project activities to policies and procedures by ensuring project plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures

Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and management; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders. Ensures all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering presentations, and providing reports to stakeholders

Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Supports the contract negotiation process with vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy

Qualification

Risk AssessmentFinancial AcumenProject ManagementApplied Data AnalysisQuality Assurance ProcessConflict ResolutionService FocusProduct Development Life Cycle

Required

Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum three (3) years experience in project management or a directly related field OR Minimum six (6) years experience in project management or a directly related field

Applied Data Analysis

Financial Acumen

Conflict Resolution

Project Management Tools

Risk Assessment

Quality Assurance Process

Service Focus

Product Development Life Cycle

Preferred

Two (2) years of experience working with large/complex medical group operations

Two (2) years of experience working with Medicare

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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