SR Program Mgr Integrated Program Sched.

Transformation is the opportunity

Blue Shield of California is the third largest health plan in California, with about $7.5 billion in revenue. Our mission is to ensure Californian's access to high-quality health care at a reasonable price.

Join Blue Shield of California and grow your career with a leader that's stirring up a change.

Helping make health care for Californians easy, accessible and reasonably priced
is a great calling. Knowing that your company has channeled over $100 million
back into California communities and will continue to do so is flat out
uplifting. Join the hardest working, not-for-profit health plan in California
and be part of the solution.

Blue Shield of California (BSC) is a long-established healthcare firm which is
embarking on a major program to re-engineer its core business system and to
modernize the technology that supports it. The Shield Advance Program will
provide the new key technology and business processes which are fundamental to
deliverling on the firm's strategies for future growth.

As part of the Delivery Integration Office (DIO), the Senior Program Manager,
Integrated Program Schedule will be responsible for a complex integrated project
plan for the entire program, linking multiple sub-projects into an overall
integrated project plan.

Responsible for building and maintaining a large integrated project plan using
MS Project Professional and MS Project Server 2007, including linking
dependencies across multiple project plans.

This position acts as the primary point of contact to plan, direct and
coordinate project and program execution to ensure successful delivery of
critical components within established time parameters by working closely with
program managers, project directors, project managers, and schedule managers to
identify all deliverables, tasks, activities and dependencies throughout the
program.

Works with Shield Advance project managers and schedulers to ensure updates to
all sub-project schedules are maintained and published on a regular weekly
basis.

Ensures identification of program critical path identification is executed in a
timely and high quality manner for reporting to senior managers, program
directors, and executive council.

Creates enterprise custom fields to perform complex calculations used to display
key schedule metrics.

Works with project managers to mentor and guide on the principles of effective
project scheduling and assists with maintaining the parameters of overall
integrated plan compliance.

Manages and provides input to ad-hoc improvement and planning cycles.

Develops new project management tools and methods.

Administratively closes out projects.

Bachelor's degree and eight to ten years of consulting, business analysis,


program/project management experience or equivalent combination of education and
experience.

Demonstrated leadership and ability to interact with all levels including senior
management and influence decision-making.

Must work independently and have strong communication writing and presentation
skills.

Must possess excellent time management and organizational skills and be able to
handle multiple high profile projects.

Be able to create and review project proposals or plans and set project
objectives.

Manage scope and scope change requests.

Complete cost/benefit analysis and/or Business Cases.

Develop budgets and timelines to support quality initiatives and programs. Plan
and direct timelines and budgets.

Monitor projects from initiation through delivery and monitor for continuous
improvement.

Identify and develop contingency plans to mitigate and address risks.

Takes responsibility for benefits realization and meeting milestone and budget
targets.

Be able to communicate with and influence internal and external stakeholders on
project steps and objectives.

Provide input into designing strategies to align BSC user programs with business
unit goals and objectives.

Blue Shield of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Our comprehensive benefits begin on your first day with medical, dental and vision coverage; 20 days PTO annually; 9 paid holidays; matching 401(k); and company pension.

Blue Shield of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

An Independent Member of the Blue Shield Association.

Blue Shield of California
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