Project Manager (Atlanta, GA)

Location: Atlanta, GA

The Client is procuring new Care Management Organizations to deliver health plan benefits for the Client program. This procurement and implementation represents one of the largest and most significant projects at the department and will impact millions with the goal of improving health outcomes and wellness and improving system performance and efficiency. Department is also in the process of transforming existing legacy Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) into modern, loosely-coupled, seamlessly-integrated, modular systems where the exchange of data and processes is seamless and automatic. Department is seeking a qualified candidate to serve full-time on a contract basis as a Project Manager for the CMO Procurement and Implementation Project. The qualified candidate must work efficiently and effectively and possess strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills. The candidate will work under a Senior Project Manager, but will have defined responsibilities and areas of specialty. Information technology and technical skills and experience implementing technical or other complex, multi-stakeholder projects will be useful. Experience with process automation and administrative simplification will be helpful. Extensive understanding of project management principles, methods and techniques is necessary.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Support project manager with assigned project management tasks and follow leadership directives
• Manage multiple project tasks on a day-to-day basis and all aspects of related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives
• Report on project success criteria, outcomes and results metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of a project including project schedules and roadmaps
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership groups and stakeholders including management and third parties.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business process needs and assist with coordination between CMO project and other enterprise projects and initiatives including MEST Program projects, Enterprise Data Management project, data governance, administrative simplification, and business process automation initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with business owners to identify gaps and areas of concern and document for solution.