Initiative Project Leader
Elevance Health

Job Description

Initiative Project Leader

Preferred Location: Colorado. This position is hybrid. The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

Initiative Project Leader

Responsible for analyzing, determining, and driving opportunities to standardize, eliminate waste and improve end to end processes.

How will you make an impact:

• Serves as a thought leader regarding improvements of end-to-end processes enterprise wide, with integration points in key business areas, Operations, PE &C, PSCCR, Finance, Actuary, and IT.
• Leads initiatives from assessment through implementation of solutions and ensures that business controls are put in place to monitor sustainability of process improvements.
• Builds consensus across organizational functional areas, lead root cause analysis, uncover trends, contribute to solution definition, and determine best practices both internally and externally.
• Identifies and resolves tactical and strategic, high-priority organizational and business issues (SWAT team approach.).
• Leads the development of new enterprise processes, reporting, IT system changes and business practices.
• Articulates to the Program Office, Operations Council and ELT initiative drivers, status, and results.
• Ensures alignment with other Enterprise initiatives.
• Travels to worksite and other locations, as necessary.

• Requires a BA/BS degree in a related field and a minimum of 8 years of professional experience in an operations environment including 7 years of leading and directing large enterprise-wide projects; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• MBA and/or Six Sigma Black Belt certification strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of inventory management with advanced understanding of staff modeling and planning strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills is a must.
• Quality background preferred.
• Productivity modeling preferred.