Lead Project Manager - 6-Month Contract

LEAD PROJECT MANAGER

DURATION:  6-month contract

LOCATION:  San Diego, CA  92121

JOB NUMBER:  48345

CLIENT:  One of the country's largest health care and health plan providers

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

- Manages complex projects or multiple projects of moderate complexity
- Leverages knowledge and prior experience to develop appropriate solutions
- Manages development of business case and may present business case
- Matches appropriate methods to identified client needs
- Demonstrates knowledge of the risk management process
- Participates in the application of the risk management process
- Leverages knowledge of and trains Project Management methodology, skills, tools for team members
- Converts business cases to business plans
- Develops and executes user training plans
- Stays abreast of enterprise-wide projects
- Develops framework and manages the tracking of interdependencies within or across projects
- Accountable for coordination of collection and validation of business requirements
- May determine the impact of current/existing technologies on the project
- Works on assignments of diverse and complex scope
- Interprets less defined guidelines to make recommendations for process improvements and/or enhancements
- Requires complex planning to coordinate with other departments or resources

TOP DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Monitoring and managing daily control reports with OnExchange vendor
- Facilitate production meetings to resolve any reported incidents
- Report critical issues to management effectively, timely, and with clarity
- Have the ability to take a lead role during critical incident management situations and organize support teams toward mitigation
- Coordinate and manage a network of SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) across the organization 

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

- Possibly once a month
- Between two San Diego offices located approximately 10-15 minutes apart

* DMV CHECK REQUIRED.* 

REQUIREMENTS (MUST HAVE):

- Bachelor's degree in related field OR equivalent experience
- High School Diploma or GED required
- 2 years or more Project Management experience; preferably minimum 5
- Demonstrates understanding of, and applies knowledge in, all phases of the project delivery life cycle
- Significant knowledge of policies, practices and systems
- Understands use of change management process - resources, schedule, scope - for assigned project (size and complexity)