Business Operations Project Manager

Role Summary

Seeking an expert Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-impact, and confidential business operations projects covering finance, contracts, staffing, and external communications. This role ensures alignment across business operations, technical vendors, and state agency partners using structured project management methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Operations & Governance: Develop time-sensitive project plans, maintain integrated master schedules, and manage scope, budget, and change control.
• Vendor & Contract Oversight: Provide project management oversight for vendors to ensure contract compliance and milestone delivery.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as a central contact across state agencies, internal divisions, and external partners to clarify dependencies and advance process maturity.
• Reporting & Risk Management: Monitor project execution, identify risks and blockers, and deliver progress reports to internal and external stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years (84+ months) of dedicated project management experience.
• Domain Expertise: 7+ years applying finance, contracts, staffing, and communications expertise to clear requirements and surface dependencies.
• Vendor Management: 7+ years oversight of vendor implementation projects against contract deliverables.
• Planning & Execution: 5+ years developing integrated project plans, risk management strategies, and schedule control.
• Stakeholder Reporting: 3+ years delivering executive reporting on risks, decisions, and progress.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or related field with 3–5 years managing Medicaid or health IT/technical projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience using PM tools such as MS Project, Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, Workday, or Monday.
• Demonstrated background leading projects using Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid models.