IT Project Management Senior Advisor (work from home)

Role Summary/Key Objectives:

The Infrastructure Project, Delivery Manager (DM) is responsible for leading one or more large scale, complex and cross-functional programs. Technology focus is operating system upgrades and infrastructure delivery efforts.

This role is responsible to represent Global Intake, Planning, and Delivery (GIPD), lead project teams using either waterfall or agile methods along with our lifecycle processes. The objective is to set and manage all stakeholder expectations towards successful project completion, meeting financial, schedule, and scope targets. The Delivery Manager will lead a collection of projects, project work streams, or strategic infrastructure initiatives through the full project life cycle and is responsible for overall coordination, status reporting, stability and delivery of high quality work efforts. In addition, this role will oversee team's projects for quality and escalation, and will mentor junior and new project managers to ensure high quality project results, and increasing levels of maturity and capability for GIPD project management.

• Ensures all projects, directly assigned to DM and oversight of team members' projects, are delivered on time and within budget, adhere to high quality standards, and meet customer expectations
• Manages multiple complex projects simultaneously; some are strategic enterprise efforts/assignments where the DM will be responsible for all project delivery teams across IT, and some are projects partnering with application project teams
• Leads diverse teams and navigates a variety of reporting relationships and matrix resources across ISG and IT
• Ensures projects are delivered on time and within budget, adhere to high quality standards, and meet stakeholder expectations
• May manage and direct one or more project teams, establishes role expectations for all project team members, and provides performance feedback to resource managers of all project team members
• Creates and manages ongoing project plans, JIRA issues, SharePoint tracking, schedules, budgets, and oversees project team members' artifacts to ensure consistency and quality

Skills & Qualifications:

• Demonstrates skills in communication across a diverse stakeholder audience; negotiating timelines; and building collaborative working teams across disciplines (infrastructure, application, architecture)
• Must demonstrate the ability to maintain consultative partnership/s with key business and IT partners to understand their direction, perspective, and strategies in order to establish a technical vision in-line with Cigna's business priorities
• Experience leading operating system upgrades across a large and diverse application suite
• Experience with Middleware technology stack including JBOSS & WebSphere
• Demonstrates experience delivering complex projects on time and at or under budget
• Exemplary Project Management skills including scope management, capacity planning, project scheduling and tracking documents
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of Project Management methodologies and tools such as JIRA, OneNote, Excel, and SharePoint with a focus on infrastructure project delivery in support of infrastructure roadmaps
• Demonstrates experience with infrastructure project management including consolidation, migration, and refresh projects
• Strong financial acumen, proven ability to connect the project results to the financial and business benefits
• Experience with change management techniques
• Proven ability to develop solid working relationships and establish a high level of credibility across functions and lines of business and infrastructure domains (voice and data networks, contact and service center, data center infrastructure and operations, information security and protection)
• Persuasive, collaborative business acumen with the ability to influence others
• Skilled in obtaining buy-in for ideas and driving project implementation and culture change within a multi-functional organization
• Executive presentation skills and ability to communicate with all levels
• Prior experience in supervisory or team lead role

Education

• 7+ years of IT work experience, including 4 or more years managing projects in a management, supervisory or team lead capacity
• Project Management certification preferable however not required (PMP, Six Sigma or equivalent)

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 111,500 - 185,900 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That's why you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna.

About Cigna

Cigna Corporation exists to improve lives. We are a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Together, with colleagues around the world, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation. When you work with us, or one of our subsidiaries, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives. What difference will you make?

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: [email protected] for support. Do not email [email protected] for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

Cigna has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.