Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

Initiative Owner

Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of related project/program management experience
  • Bachelor's degree; additional two years of experience can substitute for degree
  • Ability to tailor communication to different audiences
  • Experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
  • Strong organizational skills with ability to balance competing priorities
  • Experience with data-driven decision making
  • Familiarity with PM tools and Microsoft analytics tools

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise-wide initiatives by coordinating requirements, design, implementation, and execution activities.
  • Drive decision-making by partnering with business, product, and stakeholder teams.
  • Utilize data-driven insights to develop program strategies and manage change processes.
  • Facilitate coordination of development and documentation for design and requirements across multiple divisions.
  • Build relationships with key resources to support implementation planning and collaboration.
  • Manage ongoing program work to recommend strategies and solutions across initiatives.
  • Communicate updates and milestones to stakeholders, ensuring transparency.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
  • Comprehensive benefits package
Full Job Description
The Impact You'll Have
This position provides leadership, strategic direction, and program management for key enterprise initiatives and transformation projects to ensure expected progress and achieve desired outcomes. The individual in this role will directly engage with key senior leaders and stakeholders, ensuring coordination and integration with product teams and initiatives, while ensuring collaboration, coordination, and timely issue resolution. What You'll Do
  • Leads cross-functional, enterprise-wide initiatives by coordinating requirements, design, implementation, and execution activities to ensure alignment with strategic business priorities and successful delivery of outcomes.
  • Partners with business, product, and stakeholder teams to drive decision-making, manage dependencies, communicate progress, and ensure solutions, processes, and capabilities meet organizational needs.
  • Uses data-driven insights to develop program strategies, manage plans, timelines, budgets, and change control processes, while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, remove roadblocks, and deliver value across multiple initiatives.
How You'll Do It
  • Drive the coordination of development and documentation for design, requirements/user stories and implementation across 1-2 divisions that align with strategic priorities.
  • Develop relationships and partner with key resources, both internal and external, to collaborate on the implementation plan and dependencies to ensure all considerations are factored into the initiative.
  • Partner in the business/product team decision making process to ensure capabilities, systems and processes meet expectations and potential issues/solutions are vetted and explored.
  • Manage related ongoing program management work to understand what is needed to recommend strategy and solutions, while influencing and steering others to accomplish that strategy across initiatives.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making 6 Utilizes data to prioritize initiatives that create the most value
  • Develop and update program plans, timelines, and deliverables while coordinating multiple sub-processes to expand and/or improve programs across initiatives.
  • Stakeholder Management 6 Communicates updates and milestones to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment across all levels of the organization.
  • Coordinates and delivers cross enterprise initiatives in a product led organization, while ensuring quality and timeliness criteria are met to achieve initiative objectives
  • Ensures strategic initiatives adhere to a standard change control process and budget tracking
  • Cross-Functional Coordination 6 Work across teams to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and remove roadblocks, enabling faster execution.
  • Performs additional responsibilities consistent with the scope and level of the role, as assigned.
Required Skills & Experience

  • 3+ years of related project/program management professional experience.
  • Bachelors degree; in lieu of a degree, an additional two years of relevant experience beyond the qualifications listed above may be accepted.

Preferred Skills & Experience

  • Ability to tailor communication to varied audiences, actively listen to uncover requirements, and ensure accurate and timely information exchange.
  • Ability to analyze information, identify patterns and root causes, and collaborate with partners to implement practical solutions.
  • Ability to effectively organize work, balance competing priorities, and manage time across multiple responsibilities and deadlines.
  • Healthcare or managed care experience.
  • Experience managing complex projects which may involve multiple team members, task assignment, working with internal or external clients, managing teams and customer relationships, and managing project deliverables.
  • Experience in data-driven decision-making.
  • Process improvement (Lean / Six Sigma) experience.
  • Familiarity with PM tools & Microsoft analytics tools.
Licensure/Certifications Preferred -
Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI) Role Designation Hybrid

Role designation definition:

  • Teleworking is working full time remote.
  • Hybrid is a minimum of 2 days onsite.
  • Onsite is full-time onsite.

Anchored in Connection

Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week 6 most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships, creativity, and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.

Compensation and Benefits $90,800.00 - $120,300.00 - $149,800.00 Annual

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including skills, ability, and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which may include:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • Life insurance

  • 401k

  • Paid Time Off (PTO)

  • Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)

  • And more

To discover more about what we have to offer, please review our benefits page.

About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is a nonprofit health plan that serves more than 2.9 million members in Minnesota and surrounding states. The company was founded in 1933 and has been providing health insurance for over 80 years. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota offers a variety of health plans, including individual and family plans, Medicare plans, and employer-sponsored plans. The company is committed to improving the health of its members and the communities it serves through innovative programs and partnerships.
Learn more about Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Size
3,200 employees
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Founded
1933

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