Sr. Project Lead
12 Month Contract to Hire – High Likelihood of Extension
Hybrid – 3 days per Week Onsite – Tues. – Thurs. – Philly, PA 19103

Overview:?? 
Our health insurance client is in search of a Senior Project Lead.  The Sr. Project Leader will be responsible for working with cross-functional teams and various levels across the organization to drive project deliverables.  Key areas of responsibility include planning, organizing data, communicating and working effectively with resources supporting product and benefits coding, testing and validation activities.    The Sr. Project Lead will develop and manage to work plans and timelines; create status reporting, facilitate meetings, effectively identify risk, provide trouble-shooting and problem resolution support in support.  The Sr. Project lead will work with leadership to effectively identify, allocate and manage resource needs.
                                                                                                                                                               
MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

• Independently plan, manage and coordinate activities of individuals at both the management and staff levels. Ensure that deliverables, goals and objectives are accomplished in keeping with established priorities, timeframes and budgets. 
• Develops and manages project plans, reports on progress weekly.  Manages and coordinates every phase of the project
• Organizes and leads meetings with vendors and key functional areas. Creates presentations, agenda and minutes.  Ensures timely distribution of meeting minutes to team members as appropriate. 
• Identifies and effectively communicates risks and issues. Develops ongoing action plans to improve performance and outcomes.  Identify key gaps for which formal action plans need to be developed, works with staff in barrier analysis, action plan development, implementation, and integration of activity into centralized performance monitoring/reporting process.
• Works with leadership on resource allocation and training.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: 

• An undergraduate degree. A minimum of 5 years progressive employment experience in a health insurance organization and demonstrated experience in project management is required.
• Proficient in excel and analyzing data.
• Candidate must be able to work independently, manage multiple priorities effectively and have excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills. 
• Proven ability to effectively interact and give direction to staff at all levels of the organization, including senior staff, is required. 
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills are also required.