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• Provide hands-on project management functions, and engage project leadership and key stakeholders through all project phases. Facilitate project meetings, provide up-to-date and candid status updates, as well as ensure visibility and availability of project information.

• Monitors and controls project scope and ensure proper change control procedures are followed on all change requests

• Identify, assess and monitor risks and make mitigation strategy recommendations

• Work with IT leadership, Project Managers and Functional Leads to develop required Project Management processes

• In-depth experience in Resource Management

• Maintain up-to-date project documentation and comply with BCBSA Enterprise Project Management standards and policies

• Identify, verify project cost estimates. Develop project budget as well as track and reforecast project cost projections.

• Interface with Executive leadership to remove barriers that slow or prevent the successful delivery of the project's scope and objectives

• Work with the Business and Technical Project Managers on identifying their Project Management needs and develop the required Project Management standards, processes and best practices.

-Minimum 15 years professional business experience, preferably in the Health Insurance industry

• Minimum 10 years experience managing large and highly-complex Information Technology and/or Healthcare projects

• Minimum 5 years supervisory experience of large teams (15+ team members) specifically supervising professional and technical staff

• Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP Certification

• Highly proficient in utilizing Microsoft Project to develop deliverable-oriented work breakdown structures (WBS), and tracking project progress and interdependencies.

• Strong hands on experience in RUP Methodology

• Strong hands on experience in IBM Rational Tool Suit

• Main objective is to help the PMO enhance their tools, develop new tools, techniques and processes

• Will be interacting with PMO and Project Managers, other business units and technical resources

• Eventually managing multiple projects concurrently with budgets ranging from $300,00-400,00 to $1M and perhaps above.

• Project Server, Project Scheduler, Portfolio Management, and Resource Management experience is required

• Sharepoint knowledge - able to understand concept is highly desired as that is also in their environment.

• Healthcare experience is a must - if the person meets all the other requirements and has 2-3 years of recent healthcare experience out of their 10-15 year career, that is acceptable

• Working knowledge and familiarity with all or most of the following: IT operations and Infrastructure, systems engineering principles, Mainframe and Distributed systems, systems integration, Web services / e-Business, and Application Development Our client is looking for someone with knowledge in most or all of these area so they can help build requirements, tools and processes and be able to work with the business and technical resources on those projects.