Company Statement
For the last 80 years, EmblemHealth has been taking care of New York’s heart and soul, its people. Today, health care is more complex than ever. That’s why we’re at the forefront of change. We work alongside our customers to offer access to high-quality, affordable care, help navigate the health care experience, and make good health achievable; because everyone deserves to be taken care of. We deliver on our mission every day by living our values with our colleagues, members, clients and partners. It begins with caring and respecting all those we work with. We believe a culture of diversity and inclusion is vital to serve our unique and diverse customers. We seek for continues improvement and innovation and believe being agile and nimble is our advantage. We bring a strong sense of partnership to every relationship – internally and externally. The EmblemHealth family of companies offers competitive health, welfare, and retirement benefits as well as incentive pay plans and more.
Strategic PM, Product Management
- Cultivate strong relationships internally with leadership and necessary stakeholders for effective cross-functional collaboration; organize different individuals, stakeholders, and business leaders (internally and externally) around shared goals. Work with department leaders and project team members to develop and maintain an up-to-date integrated project plan, and to ensure that objectives, timelines, and key deliverables are specified.
- Responsible for project execution; coordination across external agencies, internal departments and cross-functional project teams; defining and managing project scope; delegating tasks; developing timelines, objectives, deliverables, and project plans; providing updates (including dashboards and tracking documents) on progress status and risks to ensure that the project stays on track. Serve as subject matter expert in project management.
- Ensure that appropriate resources have been allocated to maximize chances of project success.
- Facilitate project meetings, provide status updates; ensure visibility and availability of project information.
- Ensure proper development, preparation, and delivery of all project related documentation and communication.
- Identify, anticipate, prevent, and mitigate/resolve issues and obstacles that impede project completion
- Identify, assess, monitor and communicate risks and provide recommendations for resolution.
- Work with appropriate parties to resolve issues that impede project success; escalate if needed. Keep teams and deliverables on track by communicating and tracking deadlines and gathering clear requirements for each project.
- Monitor and control project scope; ensure proper change control procedures are followed on all change requests
- Follow up as needed to ensure deliverables are met, and that obstacles have been resolved.
- Develop/participate in the development of change communications relative to the project outcome.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in healthcare, business, or related field preferred
- (PMI) Project Management certification is preferred
- 10 - 12 years of related work experience required
- Experience within a healthcare provider organization preferred
- Demonstrated ability to lead team members and manage multiple, results-orientated projects/tasks simultaneously required
- Working knowledge of program/project management across multiple products and lines of business required
- Industry level understanding of Medicare, Medicaid & Commercial lines of business and the drivers of priorities/success required
- Demonstrated ability to work with internal and external clients building strong relationships required
- Outstanding attention to detail, organizing, prioritizing, time management and multitasking skills; with the ability to set priorities to meet all deadlines required
- Strategic and analytical thinker who also knows how to put business plans under the vision, set and deliver on business goals, and measure against goals; ability to ‘connect the dots’ and see how large and small details fit into, and impact, projects required
- Proficient in MS Office applications (word processing, database/spreadsheet, presentation, org chart/flowchart) required
- Outstanding work ethic: a willingness to roll up your sleeves and spend time in the field getting to know the company, products, members and patients required
- Excellent communications skills (verbal, written, presentation), and the ability to articulate clearly and simply to all types and levels of audiences; ability to negotiate and persuade in order to facilitate alignment of stakeholders required
- Ability to deal with the ambiguity that sometimes comes from working cross-functionally and in a change organization required
- Working knowledge of health insurance products and concepts, as well as how provider practices operate required
- Experience in managing external vendors required
EEOC Statement
We are committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences of our workforce to create opportunities for our people and our business. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Sponsorship Statement
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws and regulations, EmblemHealth may provide work visa sponsorship for certain positions.