UnitedHealth Group - Project Manager - Optum Rx

Discipline - Information Technology

Industry : Applications Development

Job Description : Primary responsibilities :

- Responsible for completion of assigned project within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.

- Manages overall work of 30-40 team members in multiple work groups.

- Understanding of US healthcare system and ability to relate project with Healthcare industry requirements.

- Provide technical leadership to the team & be involved in technical solutions & implementations.

- Anticipating issues and acting proactively to address potential issues

- Overall responsible for Project Initiating, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Control and closure

- Prepare Project plan(s) including scope statement, assumptions & dependencies

- Direct, monitor & control the execution of project plan(s)

- Perform deliverable reviews, provide functional/technical leadership, and support team members in the completion of deliverables

- Take initiative, propose solutions to improve the overall business process and application performance

- Manage all the inter-group coordination so as to effectively meet all the project needs

- Must be familiar with systems scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member.

- To be responsible for implementation & adherence of quality process as defined by the organization

- Responsible for Quality Assurance review and evaluation and documentation of team procedures.

- Assesses performance, rewards results, motivates, and fosters matrix management.

- Delegates, integrates activities & resolves conflicts.

- Risk Management & manage the project execution related risks by developing practical mitigation plans, and ensuring proper execution to lower the impact to the business.

- Assist DM in resource utilization/productivity.

- Performs project evaluation and cost benefit analysis.

- Ensure sign-off on deliverables as part of project plan

- Build a relationship with project stakeholders/ business partners

No. of Openings - 1

Qualification - Desired Skills:

- Educational Qualifications : B.E/MCA/B.Tech / MTECH /MS Graduation (Minimum 16 years of formal education, Correspondence courses are not relevant).

- Minimum of 10- 12 years of systems development and implementation experience on mainframe based systems

- Strong experience on i-Series/AS400 technologies with COBOL/RPG & DB2, Synon.

- Any experience or understanding on ILE Concept and CLL is preferred.

- Should have strong experience in writing SQL queries.

- US healthcare or PBM knowledge experience (preferred)

- Exposure to stored producers and MQ (preferred)

- Ability to identify system changes and verify that technical system specifications meet the business requirements

- Strong facilitation skills to gain customer requirements

- Strong problem solving, interviewing and fact finding skills

- Good communication and presentation skills

- Good at multitasking and organizational skills

- Good attitude and self-motivated.

- Independent communication with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project related items such as priorities and completion deadlines.

- Ability to Work collaboratively in global project with a positive team spirit and ensure team work & coordination.

- Should be flexible with the working hours as he/she needs to closely work with the US counterparts.

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