Project Manager (Aetna Mental Well-Being)

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

As a Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in translating complex business needs into actionable insights and project requirements, working closely with business SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), as well as technical and analytical teams. This position is instrumental in ensuring that project requirements are well-defined and technical specifications are accurately documented before the development team members commence their work. You will also drive the project through delivery - managing timelines, ensuring necessary stakeholder involvement, partnering with development teams, and following the established project management structure and checklist.

To be successful in this role, you need to be a self-starter with analytical and problem-solving skills, solid relationship building skills, and ability to facilitate seamless communication between business and technical teams, ensuring a unified approach towards project deliverance. An ideal candidate will be customer-centric and mission-focused, and will bring passion, energy, and excitement to the team and organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and understand business needs, conducting thorough analysis of business processes to identify areas for improvement and optimization. You will be tasked with researching and documenting processes, as well as connecting the dots between business and technical worlds, in order to enable automation development at scale. Create detailed documentation of business requirements, functional specifications, process/data flows, and user stories.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with IT (Information Technology), BI (Business Intelligence) development, and Automation/Analytics team members to define requirements and ensure a seamless integration of processes with business workflows. Engage proactively with stakeholders to align business objectives with proposed solutions. Play a key role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical implementation.
• Project Management: Coordinate people and processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce desired results. Develop the Business Requirement Document, which includes a project's scope and objective, as well as a detailed project plan. Lead stakeholders and internal resources through project milestones to a successful product delivery. Anticipate and mitigate risks to the project’s success or on time completion.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends relevant to business analysis. Actively contribute ideas and insights to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the team.

Required Qualifications

• 1+ year of project management experience, successfully managing projects that impact multiple teams, departments, and/or functions.
• 1+ year of experience documenting complex business process flows for optimization, as well as communicating ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in healthcare industry, including health insurance, PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management), or pharmacy services.
• Previous experience working in agile environment and with Agile Project Management tools (Atlassian, Jira, Confluence, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new business processes, as well as previous experience in process improvement methodologies (such as Lean Thinking and Six Sigma).
• Previous experience with project management tools such as QuickBase, Smartsheet, Jira, etc..
• Ability to work efficiently under potentially ambiguous circumstances.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.  

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4+ years of relevant experience + high school diploma or GED).

Anticipated Weekly Hours

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Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

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