AVP, Project & Portfolio Management (PMO) - REMOTE

Job Description

Job Summary

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.

Job Duties

• 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.
• Leads cross-functional teams supporting delivery of multiple project portfolios to include dependencies, risks, timelines, and execution across organizational initiatives.
• Manages portfolios to include technology, business, change initiatives and integration efforts.
• Ensures multiple programs and projects are synchronized in alignment with organizational priorities, governance standards and business objectives.
• Leads intake processes, prioritization, protocols and escalation pathways.  
• Oversees quality and risk management across projects.
• Manages portfolio delivery across multiple functions including but not limited to quality, risk adjustment, and enterprise information management (EIM).
• Demonstrates understanding of multiple projects and relationships between projects and represents as an expert in project management methods and techniques.
• Assesses projects for potential problem areas; investigates, develops, and evaluates solutions to a wide range of complex problems spanning across multiple projects within portfolios.
• Provides oversight into go live technology initiatives and other programs.
• Supports artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, HR, technology and transformation initiatives.
• Introduces improvements to portfolio planning practices, including clear scope delineation to ensure robust and accurate initial cost estimates.
• Provides guidance to ensure alignment between portfolio delivery plans and financial commitments.
• Collaborates closely with stakeholders to develop functional/SIT, regression, E2E and performance test scope.
• Monitors test execution, identifies risk and mitigation plans, and communicates with project stakeholders.
• Leverages industry leading testing trends and tools, such as test automation, AI and synthetic data generation.
• 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.
• 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.

Job Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.
• At least 5 years of management/leadership experience.
• Deep project and portfolio management experience.
• Advanced Agile, Jira, and AI experience. 
• Strong experience supporting quality assurance and process improvement initiatives. 
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across a highly matrixed organization. 
• Highly organized and self-motivated. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Microsoft Office suite/applicable software programs proficiency.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Formal training in project management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Six Sigma green belt certification.
   

To all current Molina employees: If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply through the Internal Job Board.
 

Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V.