The hiring range for this role is:  

147,190.00 - 206,425.00

Job Description Summary:

The role oversees the strategic alignment, prioritization, and delivery of projects across multiple teams to ensure optimal value delivery and alignment with organizational goals. Their responsibilities include annual planning, on-going portfolio analysis and performance monitoring, stakeholder communication, leadership, and driving agile transformation. The individual in this role is adaptable, and skilled in managing a dynamic set of initiatives. They are adept at balancing the flexibility of agile practices with the discipline required for strategic portfolio management.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Primary Job Function:

• Portfolio Planning and Management: Ensure that all projects and programs within the portfolio align with BCBSA’s strategic objectives, collaborating with senior leadership to set and adjust strategic direction. Oversee the selection, prioritization, and scheduling of projects based on business values, dependencies, strategic important while managing resource constraints.

• Resource Management: Allocate resources efficiently across projects to maximize value delivery. Ensure that resource utilization aligns with portfolio priorities.

• Stakeholder Management: Communicate portfolio performance, risks, and changes to stakeholders while managing stakeholder expectations and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders. Manage the impact of changes within the portfolio, ensuring smooth transitions and change adoption.

• Leadership and Coaching: Act as a catalyst for organizational agility by guiding teams and stakeholders through agile practices, fostering their development. Collaborate closely with senior leadership to define portfolio strategy and thematic priorities. Additionally, provide valuable guidance and coaching to project and program managers toward consistent successful project delivery.

• Risk and Dependency Management: Embrace uncertainty and use it as a lever for innovation and improvement. Oversee interdependencies, assess risks, identify mitigation strategies and contingency plans, and ensure adaptive responses to changing conditions.

• Governance, Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Establish and enforce portfolio and project governance frameworks. Track and report on portfolio performance. Conduct regular reviews and audits to assess portfolio health.

• Continuous Improvement: Encourage and support continuous improvement initiatives within the portfolio. Foster a culture where feedback is valued, and lessons learned applied to enhance portfolio performance.

Education, Experience and Certifications:

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Experience:

• Required: Minimum 10+ years of Project Management experience focused on the development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scaled integrated information solutions platforms.
• Required: Minimum 7+ years of progressive leadership and execution in technology and operations or other similar environment.
• Required: Minimum 7 years experience managing a portfolio of concurrent projects in a mixed-methodology environment; experience in large, complex multi-vendor digital transformation initiatives.
• Required: Minimum 5 years experience managing intake, prioritization, capacity management in agile and waterfall environments.
• Preferred: 3 years experience in a Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan; familiarity or applicable experience in health insurance technology.

Certification:

• Preferred: PMI Certified
• Preferred: SAFe SPC

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proficient in managing work using a project management discipline

• Expertise in running agile and waterfall portfolios including intake, prioritization, capacity management

• Expertise in project management, budgeting, technical and operational knowledge necessary to provide expert advisory services to technology and business

• Effective communicator (verbal and written) with ability to maintain a strong executive presence in high level presentations.

• Business relationship management skills

• Ability to gain confidence of Plans and skillfully communicate potentially unpopular messages to customers

• Ability to promote strategic goals and objectives with varied constituencies while gaining consensus across a wide variety of interest areas, on issues with major IT impact

• Excellent leadership, strategic thinking, project management, organizational, and budgeting skills

Financial Responsibilities:

• Revenue Responsibility: Yes
• Budget Responsibility: Yes
• People Management: Yes

Travel requirements: 11-25%

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