MVP Health Care Hiring for Professional, Program Manager at Albany, NY  Full Time

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Over 35 years strong and fueled by 1,700 smart, passionate employees across New York state and Vermont, MVP is full of opportunities to grow. We are a nationally recognized, award-winning leader for a reason. The beating heart of our company is a wide range of employees from a diverse set of backgrounds-tech people, numbers people, even people people-working together to make health insurance better. If you are ready to join a thriving, mission-driven company where you can create your own opportunities and make a positive difference-it’s time to make a healthy career move to MVP!

Full-Time, Exempt

Position can be remote/vitrual

This Program Manager (PM) role sits on the Innovation Delivery team within Operations at MVP. This individual is accountable for the execution and delivery of multiple strategic objectives for the organization. The PM will accomplish execution efforts by leading and managing cross-functional teams aligned to the strategic objectives and deploying foundational project management skills as guided by the Innovation Delivery Playbook. To influence and enhance the Playbook, the PM will perform retrospectives and engage in process improvements as we seek to grow and hone our skillset as a team.

This individual must be comfortable establishing and leading cross-functional teams, working with internal and external stakeholders, and generating/reporting on Executive level summaries. In addition, the role will be responsible for tasking and milestone project plan development, detailed project documentation and follow up with project leads, project monitoring, risk mitigation, executive reporting on the health of the initiative, project communication plans, metric development and monitoring to ensure successful execution.

Being deeply rooted in operational or strategic initiatives and partnership work efforts, this individual is responsible for ensuring the MVP core values are a key component to all our work efforts. This PM will embrace and embody a culture where business units work toward collaboration, innovation, and positive customer experience. This PM will be an enterprise level thinker, capable of pioneering continuous improvement across the organization, and ensuring execution work exemplifies excellence in delivery, customer experience, and partner relationships. Above all, this PM will embody MVP’s core values – Be Humble, Be Curious, and Be the Difference for the customer.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Education:

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Minimum Experience:

• Three years’ professional experience in a health-related environment or in Project Management role, can be substituted for a Master’s Degree with internship in a related field
• Prior experience with leading/facilitating cross-functional teams

• Strong leadership, project management and/or business analysis background preferred
• Experience with or exposure to Predictive Index, Lean and/or Agile/Scrum beneficial

Required Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings, effectively lead discussions, and prepare/deliver presentations for internal/external audiences

• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment: a curiosity and eagerness to solve big challenges and ability to manage projects independently
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management and staff
• Strong results-oriented team player with a passion for driving cross functional collaboration
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work independently
• Self-starter with a high degree of initiative and follow through

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills to prioritize work and resolve issues using sound judgment to improve processes and drive change
• Skilled in decision making, conflict resolution, and risk mitigation
• Capable of transferring knowledge to existing staff
• Experience in SharePoint, Power BI, and the Microsoft Suite required
• Complies with company ethics policies

Travel Anticipated

This position requires overnight travel approximately ___10_____% of the time

About MVP
MVP Health Care is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health insurer caring for more than 700,000 members in New York and Vermont. Committed to the complete well-being of our members and the communities we serve, MVP makes health insurance more convenient, more supportive, and more personal. We are powered by the ideas and energy of more than 1,700 diverse, employees from all backgrounds, committed to having a positive impact on the health and wellness of everyone we serve. MVP Health Care is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Employment Opportunity (PDF). We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis, e.g., Pay Transparency (PDF), and the Know your Rights protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Any person with a disability needing special accommodations to the application process, please contact Human Resources at [email protected]

Please apply and learn more – including how you may become a proud member of our team.

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• Job Family Claims/Operations
• Pay Type Salary