AVP, Project & Portfolio Management (PMO) - REMOTE at Molina Healthcare
United States
$161.914k - $315.732k
<p><strong>Job Description</strong></p> <p><br><strong>Job Summary</strong></p> <p>Provides strategy and leadership to team responsible for enterprise project and portfolio management activities. Oversees project and portfolio management across mergers and acquisitions (M&A), growth, and other business initiatives - ensuring successful delivery of programs while maintaining strong financial governance. Demonstrates oversight for technology project portfolios, supports quality assurance, capital planning and budgeting efforts, and ensures delivery excellence.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Job Duties</strong></p> <ul> <li>Supports strategy development, vision and direction for project and portfolio management activities across the Molina enterprise. Demonstrates accountability for performance and financial results, and keeps executive leadership apprised.</li> <li>Leads cross-functional teams supporting delivery of multiple project portfolios to include dependencies, risks, timelines, and execution across organizational initiatives.</li> <li>Manages portfolios to include technology, business, change initiatives and integration efforts.</li> <li>Ensures multiple programs and projects are synchronized in alignment with organizational priorities, governance standards and business objectives.</li> <li>Leads intake processes, prioritization, protocols and escalation pathways. </li> <li>Oversees quality and risk management across projects.</li> <li>Manages portfolio delivery across multiple functions including but not limited to quality, risk adjustment, and enterprise information management (EIM).</li> <li>Demonstrates understanding of multiple projects and relationships between projects and represents as an expert in project management methods and techniques.</li> <li>Assesses projects for potential problem areas; investigates, develops, and evaluates solutions to a wide range of complex problems spanning across multiple projects within portfolios.</li> <li>Provides oversight into go live technology initiatives and other programs.</li> <li>Supports artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, HR, technology and transformation initiatives.</li> <li>Introduces improvements to portfolio planning practices, including clear scope delineation to ensure robust and accurate initial cost estimates.</li> <li>Provides guidance to ensure alignment between portfolio delivery plans and financial commitments.</li> <li>Collaborates closely with stakeholders to develop functional/SIT, regression, E2E and performance test scope.</li> <li>Monitors test execution, identifies risk and mitigation plans, and communicates with project stakeholders.</li> <li>Leverages industry leading testing trends and tools, such as test automation, AI and synthetic data generation.</li> <li>Hires, trains, manages and evaluates team member performance - provides coaching, development, and recognition ensures ongoing appropriate staff training, holds regular team meetings, and drives communication and collaboration.</li> <li>Develops and sustains a high-performance team, dedicated to best-in-class solutions; responsible for attracting, developing and retaining top-tier talent to support strategy and long-term business objectives.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Job Qualifications</strong></p> <p><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>At least 10 years of progressive leadership experience in health care operations, technology, integration and project and portfolio management, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.</li> <li>At least 5 years of management/leadership experience.</li> <li>Deep project and portfolio management experience.</li> <li>Advanced Agile, Jira, and AI experience. </li> <li>Strong experience supporting quality assurance and process improvement initiatives. </li> <li>Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across a highly matrixed organization. </li> <li>Highly organized and self-motivated. </li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills. </li> <li>Microsoft Office suite/applicable software programs proficiency.</li> </ul> <p><strong>PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Formal training in project management.</li> <li>Project Management Professional (PMP) or Six Sigma green belt certification.<br> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>To all current Molina employees: If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply through the Internal Job Board.<br> </p> <p>Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V.</p>
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