Senior Medical Healthcare Management - IS Project Manager for Cypress, CA

UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.

PacifiCare Health Systems is now part of Uniprise, a UnitedHealth Group company. Uniprise Technologies (UT) is an application development organization that has over 3,000 employees and is part of the Uniprise business segment.  UT delivered approximately $249 million of new technology, enhancements, and maintenance on applications for UnitedHealth Group in 2005.  It employs a mix of internal and external resources across the globe with offices in six states within the United States (Connecticut, California, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin) and numerous vendor sites outside the United States.
As the Senior Medical Management IS Project Manager, you will be responsible for defining, managing and implementing a broad range of technical IS projects for Medical Management, Clinical, and Disease/Care Management, which are enterprise-wide.  Specific experience, training computer, technology research and content design skills include:
Manages one or more key projects, with accountability to develop project queues.
Implements project management strategies.
Provides trend analysis / review of projects, outputs / solutions ongoing to senior leadership.
Makes recommendations on solutions to leadership.
Ensures project objectives are set and roles of team members are clear.
Monitors and reviews team outputs for multiple teams.
Makes recommendations to teams with issues / barriers to continue project.
May function as high level interface with business segments as to project status.
Ensures multiple teams come in on time, within budget
Manages delegation.
Recommends solutions to conflicts, issues between multiple teams.
Manages projects of 5 or more workgroups with significant scope.
Works effectively within organization to evaluate project results. UnitedHealth Group offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, as well as a matching 401K and an employee stock purchase plan. If you are interested in growing professionally within an innovative, highly respected organization, we invite you to explore this excellent growth opportunity! Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.


Combination of 8 to 10 years direct experience as a technical or business manager or a manager of complex projects.
Advanced project management skills training.
Experience in managing multiple complex projects.
Demonstrated business acumen.
Demonstrates capability to get results in a complex, often ambiguous environment.
Establishes trust and credibility at all levels of the organization.
Effectively manages change.
Demonstrates ability to analyze data, spot trends, and barriers to effective project management.