Description
BB31660
Burbank, CA 91504
3 months +
Project Manager
Project Manager Job Skill Description and Responsibilities
Hours: M-F 8-5
Experience Requirements: 3-5 years as Business Analyst preferable insurance industry
Work Environment: business casual
Scope of the project: covering medical leave
Top 3 skills needed to succeed in this position:
- Ability to document processes
- Project management skills
- Analytical Skills
Top 5 daily responsibilities:
- Participation in meetings
- Represents department as a subject matter expert
- Project management
- Documentation of processes
Top 3 personality characteristics:
- Works well with others
- Can handle change
- Organized
Educational Requirements: HS required, PMP Preferred
Medical Facility? Non
Core Competencies
- Drive for Business Value
- Understand the business problem and define the optimal outcome - Apply Analytical/Critical Thinking
- Generate insightful, innovative and practical solutions to complex or unusual problems through the use of analytical tools that support fact-based solutions
Demonstrate Execution Excellence
- Structure and manage projects to meet client expectations, deliver and minimize potential obstacles and risks - Manage Stakeholder Relationships
- Understand and manage stakeholder needs and build commitment to project solutions that deliver target business value
Job Responsibilities
- Manages simple individual projects including a sub-project within a program
- Supports the development of efficient, cost-effective solutions
- Contributes to the accuracy of components in the business case.
- With support, negotiates agreement on project schedule and budgets.
- Understands and applies appropriate methods or recognized equivalents in completing assignments
- Supports the primary interface between the customer and the project team for a given project(s) in the management of the successful delivery of a solution
- Applies approved project management methods and business methods to projects
- Develops the project plan
- Accountable for the success criteria, development, publication and updating of project deliverables
- With support, develops and executes user adoption, communication, implementation and training plans
- Manages the tracking of interdependencies (start to finish relationships) within the project.
- Identifies needed resources.
- Establishes the project environment
- Assists in the coordination of collection and validation of business requirements and their success criteria with business partners
- Identifies project metrics
- Delivers a project based on its function, eg, development, infrastructure etc.
- Works on assignments of moderate scope.
- Works within accepted guidelines.
- Requires moderate planning and scheduling.
- With guidance oversees transition to operational production status.
- Manages project close-out activities.
- May conduct post-implementation review.
- Recognizes and communicates project and team successes.
- Decision Making
- Manages the work of the project team
- Works with project team to review progress against team and project objectives
- Allocates resources, establishes schedules, and makes task assignments
- Responsible for documenting and organizing project deliverables, scope and content, including all decisions
- Demonstrates use of change management process -resources, schedule, scope for assigned project (size and complexity - see above) - renegotiates deadlines with sponsors
- Tracks and reports on project and deliverable status and may manage variances
- Executes the project plan
- May develop and manage issue escalation and the resolution process.
- Typically involves interpreting and carrying out general guidelines.
- Requires some judgment to develop alternatives.
- Provides information to others to be used in the decision-making process.
- May contribute content for presentations
- Orients new team members or sponsors
Independence/Discretion
- Follows established directions.
- Works under general supervision.
- Exercises some discretion within defined boundaries.
- Will seek a supervisor or manager to provide guidance and/or solve problems for difficult issues.