IT Project Manager

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, enterprise-level projects, including planning, scheduling, execution, and risk management. They will also mentor project staff, manage vendor relationships, and identify opportunities for process optimization.

Requirements

Candidates should have at least 6 years of related experience, with 10+ years preferred, and a bachelor's degree. Proficiency in both Traditional and Agile project methodologies, along with experience in the healthcare industry, is highly desired.

Skills

• Project management
• Risk management
• Issue management
• Cross-functional leadership
• Enterprise project delivery
• Vendor management
• Scrum
• Agile SDLC
• Traditional SDLC
• Healthcare industry regulations
• Team mentoring
• Process optimization
• Stakeholder management
• MS Teams
• Smartsheet
• Jira

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Vacation time
• Sick time
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with company matching
• Tuition reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Paid volunteer community service time
• Mentor program
• Technical and leadership development training
• Employee assistance program

About this role

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RESPONSIBILITIES

The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for project management and delivery,
including: planning, scheduling, execution, issues/risk management, and closing
activities.  A career in Information Technology with Myers and Stauffer will
provide you with the opportunity to support and enhance our core technology and
business functions that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver
the highest levels of service to our clients. In this role you will manage and
deliver high priority projects through effective communication with business
units, IT project teams and operations, and service providers at one or more US
locations. Flexible work arrangements with the options of a remote or
remote/hybrid environment are available. We trust this person with our highest
profile and important projects. 

Essential Functions and Primary Duties

* Ability to lead cross-functional projects with varying technologies in
multiple areas of the business

* Utilize project collaboration tools to manage, create, and build effort-based
plans.

* Lead complex, enterprise level projects

* Track and monitor project progress, risks, and issues and escalate
appropriately 

* Manage and mentor Project Managers and Project Analysts

* Proactively manage project teams that are responsible for project
deliverables

* Identify opportunities for improvement, including process optimization, risk
mitigation and technology utilization

* Proactively manage project teams that are responsible for project
deliverables

* Perform moderate vendor management activities

* Build a strong rapport with your project teams; be able to motivate and
inspire

Preferred Qualifications

* 6 years’ of related experience, 10+ years preferred

* 3 years’ of supervisory experience 

* Project Management experience with Scrum preferred

* PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM or relevant certifications preferred

* Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare industry regulations, policies, and
procedures

* Demonstrated knowledge and experience working with business stakeholders and
leaders, IT project planning, delivery, and execution using Traditional and
Agile SDLC methodologies

* Demonstrated knowledge of traditional and Agile project methodologies. 

* Experience with MS Teams, Smartsheet, Confluence, Jira, and/or other
team/project collaboration tools

* Ability to work in and lead a project team, while communicating and
coordinating with peer teams

* Ability to effectively work with a remote team and manage remote workers

* Ability to formulate, document, and recommend new policies and procedures

* Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing throughout all
levels of an organization, both internally and externally

* Ability to travel as required by business needs 

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

Myers and Stauffer LC is a certified public accounting and health and human
services consulting firm, specializing in audit, accounting, data management and
consulting services to government-sponsored health care programs (primarily
state Medicaid agencies, and the federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid
Services). We have 45+ years of experience assisting our government clients with
complex health care reimbursement and provider compliance issues, operate 21
offices and have over 900 associates nationwide.

At Myers and Stauffer, you will have a career that is rewarding while also
supporting our state and federal government health and human service clients
that focus on those in need. We are committed to providing our employees with
professional growth and development opportunities, a diverse, dynamic,
challenging work environment, and a strong and visionary leadership team. Our
firm takes pride in the welcoming and collaborative culture we have throughout
our offices.  We are always willing to discuss potential flexibility that an
employee may need to better suit their work-life wellbeing.

What We Offer:

* Health, Dental, and Vision insurance along with other competitive employee
benefits for eligible associates
* Vacation time, sick time, and paid holidays
* Paid Parental Leave and available support resources
* 401K with company matching for eligible employees
* Tuition reimbursement, referral bonuses, paid volunteer community service
time, mentor program, and a variety of other employee programs and perks
* A combination of technical and leadership development training at each career
milestone
* Up to six counseling sessions per year for eligible employees through our
Employee Assistance Program

We understand that changing or learning a new industry can discourage strong
candidates from applying. Please do not hesitate to apply, as you may be the
right fit for this position or another position we have open.

About Myers and Stauffer

Accounting · 501-1,000 employees · headquartered in Kansas City, MO · founded 1977