Project Director
Elevance Health

Project Director

Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The Ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

The Project Director will identify key people to bring about change, develop a network of contacts, and target specific people to achieve end-to-end project life cycle delivery: managing business, resources, and workstreams.

How you will make an impact:

• Manages projects across business units, regions, or the enterprise; influences at all levels within the organization, often setting strategy and direction;
• Coaches and mentors project team members; mentors other project managers around project management methodology;
• Determines project scope; develops resource, risk, quality, cost, and scope management plans;
• Develops training plans; defines, recommends, and secures contractual agreements for services and products;
• Coordinates requirements, schedules implementation, and post-implement plans, and develops service-level agreements for vendor partners and global resources firms;
• Develops requirements documents; develops project approval matrix; identify project team training and tool needs;
• Defines quality gates for each project methodology phase;
• Defines critical success factors; establishes and manages the project warranty period

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a BA/BS in a related field and a minimum of 9 years of professional project management experience, of which at least 7 years are spent leading and directing large project tasks; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

• Awareness of significant contributing factors to managing project change and demonstration of a solid understanding of end-to-end business processes and critical IT dependencies are strongly preferred
• Master in Project Mgt preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred

If this job is assigned to any Government Business Division entity, the applicant and incumbent fall under a 'sensitive position' work designation and may be subject to additional requirements beyond those associates outside Government Business Divisions Requirements include but are not limited to more stringent and frequent background checks and/or government clearances, segregation of duties principles, role-specific training, monitoring of daily job functions, and sensitive data handling instructions Associates in these jobs must follow the specific policies, procedures, guidelines, etc as stated by the Government Business Division in which they are employed.

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