Project Manager - PMO​/Integration

Project Manager - PMO/Integration

Department: Ops - PMO / Integration

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: 1600 Corporate Center Dr., Monterey Park, CA 91754

Compensation: $110,000 - $130,000 / year

The Project Manager (PM) will play a key role in Astrana’s growth strategy and be instrumental in leading our system integration and implementation efforts as well as being a critical stakeholder by actively supporting other operational initiatives and special projects. S/he will be responsible for building relationships with key market leaders and understanding our strategic moves in each of the markets and working with department leaders, team and Ops departments to plan and execute on the activities and implement solutions.

S/he will help develop plans for system integration and other special projects and help with all planning and execution of projects as assigned by the Group Vice President, Director, and/or other upstream Senior Leaders of the organization.

Project assignments will consist of highly complex initiatives and will involve a diverse set of components with cross functional departments. Projects cover a variety of operational initiatives including growth in new markets, payor contract launches/conversions, new service line implementations, government/regulatory approval/compliances and other special projects. In this role, the PM will partner and collaborate with all related stakeholders to achieve project goals and while doing that, also document process/playbooks for future efficiency and focus on improvement strategies in alignment with organizational goals.

The successful PM must be able to quickly adapt to projects of different size and complexity, able to plan, develop, organize, monitor, risk mitigate and successfully integrate assigned projects by utilizing best practice project management techniques.

• Initiate the planning process, kick-off and have thorough understanding of all project elements and lead/build integration planning and drive initiatives to bring results on multiple initiatives simultaneously across multiple locations manage the entire integration.
• Partner with COO, GVP and other leadership to execute strategic and operational initiatives that will drive towards key business objectives and long‑range plans. Be conscious and supportive of the high‑visibility job.
• Create and set detailed project plan with clear steps and timeline, milestones, assign owners in collaboration with them or their leaders, monitor and track status of all integration initiatives and escalates timely as needed to keep with set timelines.
• Robust communication with stakeholders at all levels. Develop clear presentations to be able to share key information on these initiatives. Presentations will be for both executives and other audiences.
• Identify risks and issues and proactively conduct follow‑up on off‑track/lagging projects and tasks and manage issues, escalates as needed, actively focusing on resolving issues and mitigating risks.
• Change management on these initiatives and the ability to conduct business assessments and solutioning with business and communication effectively with all related stakeholders.
• Process mapping and improvements so that growth can be sustainable.
• Understand our business and operations adequately to become trusted partner with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop process, tools for tracking project regular status and help standardize across the portfolio.
• Introduce efficiency, measure applicable KPI’s and other leading indicators to ensure achievement of department goals.
• Establish and execute post‑implementation/transition plans so there is a clean “hand‑off” to the appropriate operational owners to manage with appropriate resources and support.
• Continuously review integration processes and plans and perform “post‑mortems” or other similar activities as appropriate and make recommendations for areas of improvement to the leadership team.
• Manage any special and/or ad‑hoc projects related to corporate development, operations and/or another strategic initiative.
• Demonstrate and maintain a successful track record of managing end‑to‑end…