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Friday, January 8, 2016

What better way to start the New Year...

Than with jobs, jobs, jobs. On this not so beautiful, but oh so snowy, Denver morning the Chinese stock market is down but Pinnacol hiring is up. Here are some of the positions we are currently looking to fill in early 2016 (the Year of the Monkey according to the Chinese calendar):

  • Medical Case Managers - we are looking for several Registered Nurses who will work with claims staff and other internal/external stakeholders to bring medical and claims issues of injured workers to an expedient and cost-effective resolution and to provide our Company and our stakeholders with best in class medical case management. A current Colorado nursing license is required and candidates must be willing to attain and maintain case manager certification (CCM) within 3 years of hire. Five years’ experience in nursing strongly preferred.
  • Healthcare Contract Manager - our Medical Operations and Provider Relations team is growing and one of the current opportunities is for an experienced Healthcare professional who will be responsible for contracting, implementation, administration and monitoring of new large system and high volume contracts. This position is accountable for providing a full range of operational support around existing large system contracts with additional focus on re-contracting and collaborative opportunities for lowering claims costs, improving levels of service and the quality of care. Bachelor’s Degree in health care administration, business, or related field strongly preferred although relevant work experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree.  Minimum of 5-years’ experience in progressive network management including contracting and network administration is required along with proven experience negotiating workers’ compensation or commercial reimbursement contracts with complex hospital systems and large physician groups.
  • Medical Operations Quality Manager - we are looking for an experienced Healthcare or Insurance Manager who will provide direct management of one of our high-performance teams responsible for the overall quality of medical payment services functions. A Bachelor’s Degree in business, healthcare or related field strongly preferred. As mentioned in the position above relevant work experience can be substituted for the bachelor’s degree. A minimum of 8 years’ experience in healthcare, insurance or workers’ compensation is required. Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills are also required as are exceptional analytical and decision-making skills. A minimum of 2 years formal leadership experience is strongly preferred.
  • Business Assistant Medical Operations & Healthcare Strategy - this is a pretty cool opportunity and new to our organization. The Business Assistant will assist both our Associate Vice President of Medical Operations and our Senior Medical Director in performance of their executive duties, including providing administrative support, project management, marketing/customer issues, internal and external communications to our stakeholders, office management as well as assisting other Medical Operations staff. A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED required and we are looking for folks with at least 3 years of related executive administrative work experience in a high volume environment required. Health care or insurance industry strongly preferred. Advanced PowerPoint and Excel experience is also required.
  • Software Developers - we can't forget our IT shop as we'd be lost without their efforts. We have several opportunities in this area: first we are looking for Oracle Forms\Reports Developers to develop and maintain our internal applications. You’ll collaborate on assignments with a Product Team while working under the guidance of the Application Resource Manager to meet Customer/End User needs. Ideal candidates will have extensive SQL and PL\SQL experience, familiarity with Oracle Forms, Service Oriented Architecture concepts and their implementation, the ability to work within an agile framework, understanding of Insurance or Healthcare systems a plus, the ability to elicit requirements and work with customers, and be able to manage priorities between project work and maintenance. We are also looking for full stack Developers to develop multi-tier application programs that combine web browser, application server, and database functionality, using front-end technologies such as HTML5, XML, Javascript, CSS, and Angular with a Ruby (Rails/API) back-end on Linux-style operating systems. You’ll collaborate on assignments with a Product Team while working under the guidance of the Application Resource Manager to meet Customer/End User needs. Our technical must haves: Extensive SASS/LESS experience, familiarity with CoffeeScript, extensive Ruby experience, comfortable with online testing frameworks, possess an understanding of source control systems (Git), be able to work within an agile framework. Nice to have skills include: experience using RESTful API services.
If some of these positions are of interest to you we would love to hear from you! Please let us know of your interest through Pinnacol.com.

Hopefully the Year of the Monkey (which in the Chinese Calendar actually begins February 8th) will be auspicious for all of us. And if you were born in a Year of the Monkey (1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004) here are some things you might want to be aware of...

Lucky numbers: 4 and 9
Lucky days: the 14th and 28th of any Chinese lunar calendar month
Lucky colors: white, blue, gold
Lucky flowers: chrysanthemum, crape-myrtle
Lucky directions: north, northwest, west
Lucky months: Chinese lunar months 8 and 12

Unlucky colors: red, pink
Unlucky numbers: 2 and 7
Unlucky directions: south, southeast
Unlucky months: Chinese lunar months 7 and 11

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