This position is a temporary assignment. As a contractor, you’ll be employed by Magnit, not The Cigna Group or any subsidiaries of The Cigna Group.

 

Role Summary: The Delivery Manager (DM) oversees the implementation of Lean Business Cases (LBCs) through the delivery of Portfolio and Program Epics, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and customer needs while optimizing delivery processes and fostering collaboration among team members. The DM is accountable for managing scope, budget, schedule, and alignment of resources to deliver the required capabilities on time to support value realization. They provide transparency for and orchestrate any changes in delivery dates, cross dependencies, and forecasts. The role also involves managing key stakeholders, collaborating with business partners, and monitoring progress against goals, with timely escalation and mitigation of risks and other barriers to success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lean Business Case (LBC) and Opportunity Canvas (OC):
  • Represent the Delivery Domain and provide guidance on level of effort, capacity, and commitments during decomposition of scope and value.
  • Manage delivery activities with visibility across Jira boards, ensuring Epics meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).
  • Provide accurate reporting of metrics, schedule expectations, status, and roadmap alignment.
  • Serve as a point of escalation for issues, risks, impediments, and conflicts.
  • Ensure financial reporting for Epics, including budgets, forecasts, estimates, and actuals.
• Strategic Vision and Roadmap:
  • Understand internal and external factors that impact the scope, timing, and cost of delivery work.
• Stakeholder Communication:
  • Provide regular status updates and reports to senior management and stakeholders.
  • Ensure collaboration and alignment across key personnel, including product, engineering, architecture, and business partners.
• Risk & Issue Resolution:
  • Responsible for proactively identifying risks related to financials, scope, resource, capacity, and delivery. Ensure risks are mitigated, issues are resolved, resource gaps are addressed, and the delivery of value remains on target.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Foster an environment of continuous improvement using appropriate measures and metrics.
  • Promote best practices in delivery processes.
• Deployment and Release Support:
  • Engage with and provide support for deployments and releases as needed.
• Financial Review and Change Management:
  • Review LBC financials, evaluating against the approved financial targets and benefits goals.
  • Ensure the creation of action plans to address variances and effectively manage change controls.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management or delivery management roles, preferably within Healthcare.
• Certifications: PMP or other relevant project management certifications are highly desirable.
• Critical Skills & Attributes:
  • Strong technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality software using Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other scaling models.
  • Strong product-oriented mindset - customer centric, outcome-focused, empowered teams.
  • Strong enterprise-oriented mindset.
  • Strong leadership and team management skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
  • Proficiency in project and delivery management tools and software, including Jira.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
  • Detail-oriented and highly organized.
  • Proactive and able to work independently.
  • Adaptable to changing requirements, priorities, and ambiguity.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, or a related field. A Master's degree is a plus.
• PMI - PMP desired 
• Scaled Agile Inc certification desired (SPC, SA, SSM, PO)

Hourly Pay Rate Range (dependent on location, experience, expectation)

The pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position is: $65/hour-$70/hour

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or STEM OPT training.

The operator of this Talent Community is a global leader of contingent talent services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations. 

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.