Senior Project Manager

Ready to lead complex delivery in a role that makes a real difference? Join Optum as a Senior Project Manager and help deliver initiatives that improve how healthcare works for the people who rely on it every day.

In this role, you will lead high priority initiatives, bringing together Agile ways of working, structured delivery management, and solid stakeholder partnership to keep programmes moving forward.

What you'll do:

• Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives
• Coach teams on Agile principles, flow, WIP management, and continuous improvement practices
• Support teams operating in Scrum or Kanban, adapting practices pragmatically to team maturity and context
• Actively identify, elevate, and resolve impediments impacting team delivery
• Promote consistent Agile behaviours and ways of working across teams
• Own end to end delivery for assigned initiatives, from intake through execution to release
• Translate business demand into clear delivery plans, milestones, and dependencies
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, and mitigations across the delivery lifecycle
• Provide regular, concise status updates to senior and executive stakeholders
• Partner with technical teams to develop high level designs, estimates, and delivery options
• Support prioritization and governance processes with business stakeholders
• Act as the primary delivery point of contact for business and technical stakeholders
• Coordinate across a matrixed delivery environment to ensure alignment and timely execution
• Balance BAU, production support, and value stream delivery work where required
• Contribute to broader delivery maturity and ways of working initiatives

What you'll bring:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent practical experience
• Proven significant experience delivering work in Agile environments
• Proven ability to operate in both Scrum Master and delivery ownership capacities
• Demonstrated solid stakeholder management and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Demonstrated experience managing delivery risks, issues, and dependencies
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Demonstrated solid analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and present insights clearly

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile certification (e.g., Scrum.org, SAFe, or equivalent)
• Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) or equivalent experience
• Proven experience using workflow management tools such as Rally or Jira
• Proven experience working on data, analytics, or technology driven initiatives
• Proven experience within healthcare, pharmacy, or other regulated industries

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug free workplace.