Strategy Implementation Leader

Summary of Job

Develop strategy in concert with key business stakeholders across the EmblemHealth enterprise. Translate strategy into defined tactics, program priorities, and timelines, and ensure alignment and attainment of business unit strategic plans to turn strategy into reality. Build and leverage relationships to provide innovative solutions to complex business problems. Lead a strategically oriented project portfolio and/or program (a group of projects), while monitoring internal and/or external dependencies. Ensure projects are properly funded and staffed, have/maintain executive sponsorship, and key stakeholders are continuously engaged and aware of projects status and critical issues. Serve as the subject matter expert in Project and Portfolio Management methodology and best practices. Partner with the Executive Sponsors, business owners, and when necessary, the IT organization. Track and report on risks and opportunities and how they may impact the financial results and projections by developing close ties to key financial and operational leadership. Provide guidance and oversight on mission-critical projects to meet business deadlines; develop mitigation strategies as warranted; and work with business on monitoring financial performance of funded projects. Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties involved. Uphold the enterprise's code of ethics and business conduct..

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support multiple, complex projects based on the overall enterprise strategy and resource capabilities.
• Track and manage all project action items to timely resolution.
• Contribute to the development, coordination and administration of strategic initiatives in support of enterprise objectives and goals. Assist in annual Project Portfolio planning, scoping and prioritization.
• Oversee centralized services such as project definition, planning, scheduling, pricing, risk assessment and tracking to effectively monitor the committed time, scope and budget of the projects.
• Serve as primary liaison to Executive Sponsors/Senior leaders in support of attaining desired project outcomes.
• Actively lead in project status meetings; may lead on project Steering Committees of mission critical projects.
• Support department executive in executing business strategy, enhance organizational culture, team development and process improvement.
• Utilize finance metrics to determine degree of success for projects; report on results to senior management.
• Utilize financial modeling and forecasting to support project prioritization and resource allocation.
• Partner with Finance to validate business cases, monitor budget adherence, and assess financial impact of strategic initiatives.
• Reprioritize work as business and strategy needs dictate and facilitate discussions at all levels of the organization.
• Partner with IT as needed for technical workstream as part of overall project. This can include submitting PPMs for the business and tracking status to ensure meeting business deadlines.
• Provide oversight of the relationships between the entire project team including external vendors and suppliers that are engaged with the project.
• Manage project completion postmortem to ensure gathering of Lessons Learned and call outs for future projects.
• Conduct Financial impact assessments and scenario planning to support strategic decision-making.
• Establish and implement strategic project management documentation and methodologies including policies, standards, procedures, and necessary technologies.
• Provide active consultation and mentoring to the project management community throughout the project lifecycle and monitor adherence to PM standards and methodology. Identify, provide direction, and/or remediate, when possible, any major project management risks that would affect expected performance of the portfolio.
• Drive decision making regarding utilization of project resources.
• Develop and maintain financial dashboards and KPIs to track project performance and value realization.
• Identify critical resource needs and negotiate with functional resource managers to secure allocation to the project and to ensure projects progress in accordance with agreed upon deliverables.