Talent Acquisition Project Director

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Job description

Description
SHIFT: Day Job

SCHEDULE: Full-time

Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., it's a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we're creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care.

This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health care companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company

Preferred Locations: Indianapolis, IN; Atlanta, GA; Virginia Beach, VA; Richmond, VA; and Mason, OH.Will consider one of Anthem's other major pulse points for the most qualified candidate. Anthem supports a hybrid workplace model with pulse point sites used for collaboration, community, and connection.

The Talent Acquisition Project Director is responsible for all of the requirements for Project Manager Sr, plus demonstrates the ability to identify key people to bring about change and understands underlying cultural dynamics to develop a network of contacts and target specific people to achieve project goals and objectives.

Possesses awareness of significant contributing factors to manage project change, demonstrates a solid understanding of the end-to-end business processes and the critical IT dependencies as well as knowledge of additional regions and Enterprise needs.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Manages projects across business units, regions, or the enterprise
• Influences at all levels within the organization, often setting strategy and direction
• Coaches and mentors project team members
• Mentors other project managers around project management methodology
• Determines project scope, develops resource, risk, quality, cost, and scope management plans
• Develops training plans; Defines, recommends, and secures contractual agreements for services and products
• Coordinates requirements, schedules implementation and post-implement plans and develops service-level agreements for vendor partners and global resources firms
• Develops requirements documents; develops project approval matrix; identifies project team training and tool needs; defines quality gates for each project methodology phase; defines critical success factors; establishes and manages the project warranty period.

Qualifications

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Anthem. We require all new candidates to become vaccinated against Covid-19. All offers of employment are conditioned on completion of a background check, including COVID-19 vaccination verification. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide - and Anthem approves - a valid religious or medical explanation as to why you are not able to get vaccinated that Anthem is able to reasonably accommodate. Anthem will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a BA/BS in a related field and a minimum of 9 years professional project management experience, of which at least 7 years are spent leading and directing large project tasks; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in Project Management
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Six Sigma Black belt
• Six Sigma Green belt Certified
• Lean Principles
• Agile Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach
• Certified Agile Coach

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs, and financial education resources, to name a few.

Anthem, Inc. has been named as a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, is ranked as one of the 2020 World's Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine, and a 2020 America's Best Employers for Diversity by Forbes. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran. Anthem promotes the delivery of services in a culturally competent manner and considers cultural competency when evaluating applicants for all Anthem positions.