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Enterprise Project Manager Consultant (13896)
Location: 1801 Main Street, Columbia, SC
Position Overview
Working under the direction of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or designee, the Project Manager will support high-priority projects across multiple business units and work closely with internal teams, management, vendors, and external organizations.
The ideal candidate will have strong IT Project Management experience within a healthcare insurance environment, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple high-profile projects simultaneously.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple medium to complex IT projects from planning through completion.
- Develop business requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
- Create detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
- Estimate project effort and allocate resources effectively.
- Monitor project progress and ensure deliverables are completed on time and with high quality.
- Identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and risk triggers.
- Develop and maintain project management documents, artifacts, reports, and metrics.
- Provide regular project status updates and recommendations to management and executive leadership.
- Work closely with business units, technical teams, vendors, and external organizations.
- Facilitate communication among stakeholders with competing or diverse interests.
- Understand the business processes and project details rather than focusing only on project schedules.
- Support portfolio/program-level planning and reporting as required.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to executive management.
- Perform other project management duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in Project Management.
- 3 years of Project Management experience in a healthcare insurance IT environment.
- Experience managing multiple high-priority and high-profile IT projects.
- Strong project planning, scheduling, effort estimation, and resource allocation experience.
- Experience with project risk and issue management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with business, technical, management, and vendor teams.
- Strong proficiency in English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Medicaid or Healthcare Delivery Systems.
- Experience with Medicaid or healthcare claims system IT projects.
- PMP Certification.
- Previous public sector/government experience is a plus but not mandatory.
- Experience working with SCDHHS or other state healthcare agencies is a plus.
Required Certification
- PMI Certification required.
- PMP Certification preferred.