Associate Project Manager

Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives

Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.

To better serve our customers, we’re creating a culture that promotes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are committed to creating an environment where employees can do their best work and where best-in-class talent comes, stays, and thrives!

Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives

Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.

To better serve our customers, we’re creating a culture that promotes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are committed to creating an environment where employees can do their best work and where best-in-class talent comes, stays, and thrives!

As an Associate Project Manager you would provides IT project management services for business unit(s) and/or company-wide initiative(s) with oversight for small to medium-scale projects. These are typically structured, with well-defined deliverables and processes and are considered low to medium risk to Premera overall. Project durations will vary but generally could last approximately 1-12 months. May manage multiple projects at a time with supervision.. Responsible for planning through implementation, applying standard project management methodologies to manage scope, budget, and timing.

What you’ll do

• Develops and manages project plans for assigned projects, escalates conflicting priorities with other projects and/or matrixed team members. Influences team members to successfully execute on plan, and tracks projects costs.
• With guidance and coaching from leadership as required, evaluates and solves problems that impact the assigned project. Escalates information and/or problems as needed.
• Develops and communicates expectations and success measures with team and partners. Monitors process, progress and results against success measures.
• Communicates both orally and in written forms (formal and informal), with project team and partners.
• May serve as team member on large-scale projects.
• May maintain project budget.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Operate in a highly technical environment.
• Must have demonstrated the ability to quickly and effectively.
• Demonstrates an understanding of cause and effect relationships and exercises good judgment. Appropriately engages teammates and leadership for direction.
• Ability to identify all facets of an issue and generate a solution that takes downstream impacts into consideration. Ability to troubleshoot from different perspectives.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business or 4 years of experience minimum.
• 5 years of project management experience minimum.
• Must have IT PPM tool experience along with professional experience working with SharePoint, Microsoft Project, and Visio.
• Project Management certification (versed in multiple methods e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Extreme, Prince 2) preferred.
• Healthcare industry knowledge preferred.
• Experience working in several different industries, demonstrated history if natural progression with responsibilities and/or project-size complexity with a strong working knowledge of the SDLC and how it relates to the project lifecycle method.
• Demonstrable ability to drive and deliver while being able to manage unknown variables.

What we offer

Premera is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement programs (401K employer match and pension plan)
• Wellness incentives, onsite services, a discount program and more
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Generous Paid Time Off to reenergize
• Free parking

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What we offer

• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement programs (401K employer match and pension plan)
• Wellness incentives, onsite services, a discount program and more
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Generous Paid Time Off to reenergize
• Free parking

Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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