Kaiser Permanente · 4 hours ago
Project Manager III
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expKaiser Permanente is a leading healthcare organization, and they are seeking a Project Manager III to manage projects of small-to-medium size or components of larger projects. The role involves leading project teams, coordinating resources, monitoring project risks, and ensuring stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health
Responsibilities
Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome
Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team
Manages projects of small-to-medium size, or components of a larger project from initiation to close-out. Develops, analyzes, and executes project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages project financials for medium size projects. Monitors project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan and provides input and justification for costs and budget impact. Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. Allocates resources, establishes schedules, and makes task assignments
Leads the work of project team members. Requests and coordinates internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. Provides guidance and feedback to team members
Monitors and identifies project risks, issues, and trigger events by executing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate
Monitors adherence of project activities to policies and procedures by ensuring project plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures
Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and management; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders. Ensures all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering presentations, and providing reports to stakeholders
Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Supports the contract negotiation process with vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy
Qualification
Required
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum three (3) years experience in project management or a directly related field OR Minimum six (6) years experience in project management or a directly related field
Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
Attention to Detail
Business Knowledge
Communication
Critical Thinking
Cross-Group Collaboration
Decision Making
Dependability
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
Drives Results
Facilitation Skills
Health Care Industry
Influencing Others
Integrity
Learning Agility
Organizational Savvy
Problem Solving
Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
Teamwork
Topic-Specific Communication
Applied Data Analysis
Conflict Resolution
Financial Acumen
Product Development Life Cycle
Project Management Tools
Quality Assurance Process
Risk Assessment
Service Focus
Preferred
One (1) years experience implementing large or complex projects
One (1) years healthcare experience
One (1) years medical center operations project management experience
One (1) years experience working with collaboration software (e.g., Sharepoint, MS Teams, etc.)
One (1) years experience developing and delivering presentations to management
Company
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$7.48M2018-07-17Grant· $0.08M
2014-08-05Grant· $7.4M
Leadership Team
Gregory Adams
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
James L. Robinson III
Senior Vice President/Area Manager
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