Sr. Government Healthcare Project Manager

Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position: Sr. Government Healthcare Project Manager based in our Phoenix office.

Sr. Government Healthcare Project Manager

Mercer’s Government Human Services Consulting (GHSC) practice focuses on the unique and challenging needs of the public health care sector, providing a wide array of consulting services to local, state, and federal government agencies across the country. GHSC helps clients achieve better outcomes, develop and deploy defensible strategies, and reshape the delivery of health care.

What can you expect?

• The Sr. Government Healthcare Project Manager Consultant will manage complex projects.
• This role will collaborate across levels and specialty groups (sectors) to ensure that the project is completed with a high level of client satisfaction, as well as on time and within budget and scope.

We will count on you to:

• Manage complex, broad, and/or multi-year projects from end-to-end to deliver business outcomes, ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget and to a high level of client satisfaction.
• Work closely within high visibility projects and regularly interface with internal senior management; identify subject matter experts on the project(s) at hand.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with senior business leadership.
• Become a trusted advisor and help facilitate timely decision making and trade-offs throughout all relevant project stages.
• Negotiate resource requirements with responsible management when faced with conflicts in priorities.

What you need to have:

• BA/BS degree
• Minimum five years of project management experience.
• Demonstrated project management experience, with a proven ability to drive moderately complex projects to completion.
• Ability to partner and lead teams to deliver project objectives
• Strong command of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

What makes you stand out?

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred, but not required.
• Government healthcare finance and/or health consulting experience is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management and communications skills.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a demanding work environment.

What’s in it for you?

• A company with a strong brand, with experience developing solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s toughest challenges.
• The opportunity to contribute intellectual capital and leadership as part of THE global leader in human capital consulting.
• A culture of internal mobility, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, with Employee Resource Groups which provide access to leaders, relevant volunteer and mentoring opportunities, and interactions with counterparts in industry groups and client organizations.
• Flexible work opportunities for work/life balance.

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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