The Role
Leads complex projects from requirements definition through planning, execution, testing, risk management, stakeholder communication, vendor coordination, and closure. Establishes project standards, schedules, budgets, quality metrics, and resource plans while managing dependencies and resolving issues. Provides leadership, mentorship, and performance feedback to project teams, ensuring deliverables meet scope, timeline, cost, and quality objectives.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities Preferred Qualifications
- Receives high-level business requirements and oversees the development of detailed requirements and prioritizes efforts.
- Refines resource requirements and forms project teams. Further defines estimates for financial, physical or human resources to support long-term projects and programs.
- Facilitate requirement reviews with development teams and gather estimates.
- Applies best practices, and develops project standards, procedures and quality objectives including metrics for assessing progress. Utilizes established project standards, procedures and quality objectives.
- Conducts project kickoff meetings, communicating individual roles and project expectations and ensuring that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.
- Develops detailed project plans and schedules and drive tasks and project to completion.
- Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts.
- As needed, facilitates the evaluation, selection and contract negotiation for external vendors and independent contractors. Manages relationship with external vendors working to support project requirements. Assesses performance against project milestones/schedule, metrics, scope, quality as defined by contract specifications. Acts as liaison between business client and vendor.
- Makes presentations to solicit project buy-in, report on project status, conduct problem resolution and other types of communication to a variety of audiences.
- Accountable for project milestones and critical dates, scope, cost and quality to identify potential risks. Initiates ways to resolve schedule and other project-related risks and issues. Keeps management aware of the situation.
- Facilitates and manages testing efforts to validate project deliverables meet scope and quality expectations, when needed.
- Assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost and quality objectives. Ensures business owner and/or project executive sponsor has a process to track outcome and satisfaction metrics.
- Conducts project review and closure at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
- Other Duties/Functions:
- Participates in Resource Allocation Planning and Cross Project Dependency Mapping
- Continuously provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance. Uses past experiences to identify potential areas of improvement.
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project stakeholders.
- Coaches or mentors less experienced personnel.
- Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
#LI-Hybrid
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Seven years of general project management experience or five years of IT project management experience or equivalent combination of education and related work experience
- Working knowledge of end-to-end software development lifecycle
- Experience with projects in multiple technologies and business functions
- Requires working knowledge of end-to-end software development lifecycle.
- Excellent written communication skills. Able to prepare routine reports and correspondence.
- Math skills -- ability to do project forecasting and financial management.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Seven years of general project management experience, or five years of IT project management experience, or equivalent education and related work experience
- Working knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
- Experience with projects involving multiple technologies and business functions
- Excellent written communication skills, including preparing routine reports and correspondence
- Math skills, including project forecasting and financial management
HMSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about HMSA and has not been reviewed or approved by HMSA.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical and dental coverage are described as solid, with preventive services and select zero‑cost features adding value in recent plan years. Employer-sponsored plans can have affordable premiums in certain groups and broad access options.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and potential discretionary contributions forms a strong component of total rewards. Retirement support complements the core medical and dental package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and PTO that increases with tenure provide meaningful time‑off flexibility. Time‑away benefits scale with service length.
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The Company
What We Do
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is a reliable name in Hawaii health care. Established in 1938, we are the largest and most experienced provider of health care coverage in the state. Over half of Hawaii’s population have chosen HMSA for their health care coverage. We are dedicated to providing quality, affordable health plans; employee benefit services; and worksite wellness programs. HMSA also offers a variety of programs, services and support to help improve the health and well-being of our members and community.
