Project Director (US)

About the role

The Project Director role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace.

Responsibilities

• Manages projects across business units, regions or the enterprise; influences at all levels within the organization, often setting strategy and direction
• Coaches and mentors project team members; mentors other project managers around project management methodology
• Determines project scope; develops resource, risk, quality, cost, and scope management plans
• Develops training plans
• Defines, recommends and secures contractual agreements for services and products
• Captures, coordinates requirements, schedules implementation and post-implement plans, and develops service-level agreements for vendor partners and global resources firms
• Develops requirements documents; develops project approval matrix
• Identifies project team training and tool needs
• Defines quality gates for each project methodology phase; defines critical success factors; establishes and manages the project warranty period

Requirements

• Requires a BA/BS in a related field and minimum of 9 years professional project management experience, which at least 7 years are spent leading and directing large project tasks
• Any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background

Qualifications

• Awareness of significant contributing factors to manage project change and demonstration of a solid understanding of end to end business processes and the critical IT dependencies
• Strong preference for Masters in Project Mgt
• Preferred Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Medicare Risk Adjustment experience is preferred
• People leadership experience is preferred

Skills

• Preferred familiarity with significant contributing factors to manage project change and demonstration of a solid understanding of end to end business processes and the critical IT dependencies

Benefits

At Elevance Health, we offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in this posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in this posting.