Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abacus Insights is transforming how data works for health plans, and they are looking for a driven project leader to join their Implementation Program Management Office. The role involves leading complex IT projects in the healthcare payer space, ensuring timely delivery and quality while collaborating with various teams to achieve project objectives.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery of multiple large-scale projects or multiple smaller projects, ensuring timelines, scope, and quality are consistently achieved
- Coordinate closely with Client Delivery Managers to understand client requirements and translate them into delivery objectives, milestones, dependencies, and sequencing that support an accurate and effective project schedule
- Apply industry standard project management practices across Schedule Management, Risk Management, Communications Management, and Stakeholder Engagement to improve delivery predictability, transparency, and cross-functional accountability
- Partner closely with cross-functional technical teams and client teams to understand delivery needs, constraints, and dependencies, then translate those inputs into clear business-facing decisions, status updates, mitigation plans, and executive-level project health reporting
- Own integrated project schedule management, including work plan development, milestone tracking, dependency management, critical path visibility, variance reporting, and alignment to client requirements
- Maintain disciplined risk and issue management practices, including RAID log ownership, proactive risk identification, mitigation planning, escalation path management, and follow-through on issue resolution
- Conduct detailed resource planning and capacity management to support realistic delivery commitments and schedule execution
- Facilitate regular status meetings to maintain project health visibility, confirm decisions and next steps, and ensure timely escalation of risks, issues, and dependencies
Skills
- 10+ years leading technically complex IT projects and programs, with 8+ years in a dedicated Project Manager role and a consistent track record of on-time, high-quality delivery
- Proven ability to drive projects through the full lifecycle — initiation through handover — using standard PMO artifacts including Project Charter, RAID, RACI, schedules, and status reporting
- Demonstrated experience delivering healthcare IT implementations, with payer-side experience strongly preferred. Able to set and hold clear client expectations around scope, timelines, dependencies, and outcomes
- Comfortable managing in hybrid environments that combine Agile team execution with milestone-based planning, schedule governance, and structured stakeholder reporting
- Experience coordinating across software development, data engineering, system integration, QA, and architecture functions — with enough technical fluency to make informed calls on risks and trade-offs
- Strong instincts for proactively identifying, tracking, and escalating risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies. No surprises to stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across client, leadership, and cross-functional audiences. Comfortable defending a position, driving decisions, and holding team members accountable
- Hands-on experience with Smartsheet, Jira, and AI agentic tools to support schedule management, backlog coordination, RAID tracking, and stakeholder reporting
- US Healthcare implementation experience, with direct exposure to healthcare payer environments, enabling faster onboarding and effective client engagement within Abacus' payer‑focused delivery model
- Experience working for or with a US Medicaid payer
- Formal project management certification such as PMP® or PRINCE2®, demonstrating strong grounding in structured delivery governance, planning, and control
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification, supporting effective collaboration with Product, Engineering, and QA teams in Agile or hybrid delivery models
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time offrecharge when you need it
- Work from anywhereflexibility to fit your life
- Comprehensive health coveragemultiple plan options to choose from
- Equity for every employeeshare in our success
- Growth-focused environmentyour development matters here
- Home office setup allowanceone-time support to get you started
- Monthly cell phone allowance 6 stay connected with ease
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