Essential Responsibilities (The primary job duties this position is responsible for achieving are listed in order of importance.) • Manages large-scale projects from planning to completion. Develops, analyzes, and manages moderately complex project plans which include schedule, and resource forecast. • Manages and monitors project financials for large projects. • Monitors overall project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope and with quality) against plan and makes adjustments as needed. • Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. • Ensures adherence to established processes and policies (e.g. SDLC including domain standards, Kaiser standards). • Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure proper project management practices are in place. • Manages the work of own project team and ensures alignment of team member skills and strengths with project demands. • Requests and manages internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. • Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. • Delivers individual performance feedback to team members. • Proactively monitors project risks by identifying risks and trigger events. • Monitors the compliance of project plans by ensuring team members follow policies and procedures. • Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management. • Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders. • Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. • Communicates tough issues to stakeholders and keeps an independent opinion. • Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. • Assists with contract negotiations with service vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendor for accuracy.
