Blue Shield Of California

Project Manager, Consultant

Blue Shield Of California$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant project management experience
  • Proven ability to manage medium to large projects
  • Experience with strategic direction alignment and goal-setting
  • Familiarity with Scrum Agile Software Development Lifecycle is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Plan and manage medium to large projects impacting the Nexus Platform
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure project success
  • Develop action plans for addressing business and technical challenges
  • Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality effectively
  • Maintain project plans and escalate risk management strategies
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers and technical stakeholders
  • Prepare executive communication and report outs regarding project status

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model with flexibility for in-office collaboration
  • Commitment to reasonable accommodations for employees with medical conditions
  • Opportunity to work on enterprise-wide initiatives with significant impact
  • Engagement in a supportive workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion
  • Possibility for professional growth and development within a collaborative team
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Nexus Platform team is looking for a Project Manager to provide oversight and planning for various size initiatives that require development and delivery from the Platform. The Project Manager, Consultant will report to the Senior Manager. In this role you will provide project management for the work that impacts the Nexus Platform. This may be enterprise strategic initiatives driven by the Platform team or it may be complex operational implementations with multiple cross functional dependencies. This role will be supporting the Product Managers on the delivery of the initiatives by supporting planning, budgeting, scheduling, and assisting with dependencies and escalations.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Plan and manage medium to large sized projects that impact the Nexus Platform, which is an internal operational Platform used across the Enterprise.
  • Manage projects that either directly impact or are driven by the Nexus Platform, as well as enterprise-wide initiatives that affect the platform and require project management, coordination, and collaboration across the platform team and key stakeholders
  • Ensure strategic direction of projects is in line and designs strategies for alignment with Company and business unit goals and objectives
  • Demonstrate proven ability to determine key business and technical issues, develop effective action plans and implement to successful conclusion
  • Manage the design, development and/or implementation of new or enhanced systems projects or programs
  • Manage the scope, schedule, budget, and quality of the project
  • Maintain project plans and schedules
  • Escalate risk and mitigation strategies
  • Work with cross functional teams to assist in delivery and execution
  • Work closely with the Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and Developers for the Nexus Platform
  • Coordinate with Change Management team members on roll out strategies, communication, training, and delivery
  • Assist with executive report outs and communications
  • Work in JIRA, Azure Dev Ops, and Microsoft Tools
  • Leverage your understanding and experience in Scrum Agile Software Development Lifecycle for planning and delivery


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience


Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
  • For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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Size
7,000 employees
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Founded
1981

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