Company Description:
Clearlink Partners is an industry-leading managed care consultancy specializing in end-to-end clinical and operational management services and market expansion initiatives for Managed Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Special Needs Plans, complex care populations, and risk-adjusted entities.
We support organizations as they navigate a dynamic healthcare ecosystem by helping them manage risk, optimize healthcare spend, improve member experience, accelerate quality outcomes, and promote health equity.
Position Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives
- Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners
- Accountable for one or more initiatives including business, clinical, operational, and Information Technology (IT) scope
- Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
- Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
- Develops the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan(s), and other related project management artifacts
- Develops and implements scope/change management, risk, and issues processes, templates, tracking & reporting in line with client standards and processes
- Develops and implements financial management (budgeting, forecasting etc.) and resource management processes, templates, tracking & reporting, in line with client standards and processes
- Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and works with matrixed business, clinical, operational, and IT partners, and vendors, to oversee all Solution Development LifeCycle (SDLC*) phases of a project.
- Clients may use varying delivery methodologies including Agile Variants such as Scrum & Kanban and broader methodologies such as DevOps
- Develops and manages communication plans to ensure stakeholders are informed and engaged as needed
- Serves as a project Subject Matter Expert (SME) routinely briefing key stakeholders on varying aspects of assigned initiatives
- Represents the project in various project governance and cross-department forums
- Defines or adheres to status reporting processes, templates, tracking & reporting in line with client standards and processes. Publishes periodic project status reports
- Chairs project and status meetings, steering or operating oversight committees to review progress with key constituents
- Proposes recommendations and adjustments to project delivery and related solutions throughout the life of the initiative
- Develops project management/governance frameworks (consistent with client standards and processes:
- Resource Management
- Communications Management & Status Reporting
- Roles & Responsibilities (including RACI) Matrices
- Work within a team of stakeholders across business and technical domains to identify the optimal solution scope, requirements and business process, architecture and design and delivery approach and implementation plan
Position Qualifications:
Competencies:
- Proficiency leading a variety of different projects including new product or services launches, large-scale application development or implementations, systems integrations, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) arrangements, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal with experience tailoring messaging to business and technology executives
- Experience acting as thought leader on one or more initiatives
- Able to enter a project mid-stream and assume delivery responsibilities within a reasonable period of time
- Comfort with being “hands-on” throughout various aspects of the project, as needed to assure delivery
Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
- 5-7 years of progressive experience with 2+ years leading large scale, integrated multi-million dollar programs or projects
- Previous consulting experience desired
- Diverse “generalist” backgrounds and skills are a very strong plus
Time Zone: Eastern, Central, Mountain or Pacific
Other Information:
- Expected Hours of Work: Monday – Friday 8am – 5 pm; with ability to adjust to Client schedules as needed
- Travel: May be required, as needed by Client
- Direct Reports: None
- Salary Range: $115,000 - $160,000
EEO Statement:
It is Clearlink Partners’ policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, parental status, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service or any other non-merit-based factor in accordance with all applicable laws, directives and regulations of Federal, state and city entities. This salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target wage for new hires of this position across all US locations. Individual pay will be influenced by Experience, Education, Specialized Soft Skills, and/or Geographic location.