The Sr. Project Manager role provides management consulting and analytical support to major KPNW projects, and conducts complex analyses, thereby supporting KPNW in achieving its performance targets.
Essential Functions:
- Drive for Business Value - Planning & Scoping: Efficiently plan and prioritize own and others' work through drafting project engagement work plans for assigned work streams.
- Organize project activities and ensure tasks are completed within project scope and budget.
- Provide opportunities to transfer relevant capabilities and knowledge to junior team members.
- Demonstrate with some oversight and sustainable with proven outcomes: Guiding work and teams to effectively achieve objectives.
- Apply basis project mgmt principles and tools.
- Identification of project resource requirements.
- Project execution (results, decision making, strategic thinking, driving performance): leads project teams or portions of large projects to high quality results.
- Drive for Business Value - Issue Management and Quality Assurance (QA): Anticipate project issues, weigh practical considerations in addressing issues, and seek input from engagement manager / sponsor to resolve.
- Apply Analytical/Critical Thinking - Strategic Thinking and Solutioning: Identify key issues and define problems for analysis.
- Identify better and innovative ways to accomplish goals and exceed project expectations.
- Design work and structure analyses to facilitate decision-making.
- Develop easy to understand frameworks to present information and ideas.
- Develop multiple innovative and creative solutions to solve problems.
- Analytic / problem solving (information gathering, decision making, strategic thinking, judgment, telling a compelling story): Defines, organized and directs analysis.
- Structures conclusions and recommendations of analysis to facilitate decision making.
- Demonstrates excellent analytic skills.
- Identifies key issues and defines problems for analysis.
- Apply Analytical/Critical Thinking - Analytics: Break-down complex or unfamiliar issues into logical parts.
- Apply experience from previous projects to analyze an issue or build a solution.
- Use existing or new frameworks and perspectives to organize large amounts of information.
- Apply Analytical/Critical Thinking - Diagnostic Analysis & Application of Tools: Develop an understanding of client's business and apply this knowledge to suggest appropriate approaches, tools and techniques to tackle client problems.
- Analyze data and synthesize results to develop pertinent and insightful solutions.
- Use appropriate tools and methodologies to review, design and / or implement products and services.
- Change management.
- Demonstrate, with some oversight, defining a change and assess the climate and readiness for the change, identify an approach and communication plan.
- Presentation skills (oral presentation, written deliverables, formal facilitation.): Structures, creates, and presents formal client communications which are clear, succinct, and compelling.
- Business Process Improvement (technical skills, knowledge of various methodologies / techniques, application of change mgmt skills, ability to realize sustainable results).
- Own, to the satisfaction of peers and customers, one portion of a process improvement project.
- Able to develop flowcharts, research trees and basic data analysis with little oversight.
- Able to develop basic current state / future state analysis with little oversight.
- Innovation.
- Creativity (identify opportunities, dynamic thinking, proactive problem solving).
- This job description is not all encompassing.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Three (3) plus years of project management experience.
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience in health care, business administration, or a related field required.
- Formal project management training with technical mastery.
- Project management certification preferred.
- Manage moderately complex projects or multiple simple projects.
- Ability to Supervise up to ten (10) team members.
- Manage resources assigned to specific aspects of a project, and / or manage small projects with minimal impact.
- Use occasional judgment to deviate from accepted practices.
- Develop recommendations to resolve organizational problems.
- Use basic verbal and written skills to convey general concepts and / or processes.
- Work within accepted guidelines.
- Plan and schedule activities with moderate oversight.
- Work with limited supervision.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Must be a critical and systems thinker to design and improve operations with significant performance gains and results.
- Must be able to effectively work with people and teams to resolve problems, and reach practical decisions and solutions.
- Must be proactive and constantly work with customers to identify performance improvement opportunities.
- Three (3) years of experience in one of the following disciplines: management consulting, planning, management/industrial engineering preferred.
- Experience in a Big Four Consulting Firm strongly preferred.
- Experience in an integrated health care system preferred.
- Masters/advanced degree preferred.
- Strong proficiency in the use of current software, including spreadsheets, statistical applications, charts and graphs, project management software, vision, Microsoft applications preferred.
- Intermediate knowledge of analytic techniques pertinent to planning, finance, management/industrial engineering preferred. This includes forecasting, sensitivity analysis, and financial analysis such as NPV.
- Basic knowledge of advanced analytic techniques such as dynamic modeling/simulation, decision analysis, cost-benefit/effectiveness and other economic analysis, operations research preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (1:1, peer, multi-disciplinary group, presentations, written) preferred.
- Ability to facilitate project groups of up to twelve (12) people, supporting the project leader in meeting planning, management, and maintaining good group process preferred.
- Proven leadership skills in project management and consulting preferred, including the following attributes: efficient, collaborative, candid, open, and results-oriented.
- Demonstrated ability to manage against multiple completing priorities of operational management customers and business process preferred.
- Ability to design and deliver formal training programs to department staff and customers on advanced consulting and analytical tools and techniques preferred.
Salary Range:
$66,740 - $91,460
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.