Project Manager

General Summary

Works with business and clinical sponsors to ensure that large projects deliver expected business value and are considered successes. Contributes to a body of knowledge of the System's project experience. Facilitates excellent team work within project teams and with customer teams.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Changes management of business and clinical projects by: documenting customer processes being changed; facilitating redesign of processes; recommending changes to customer processes.
• Manages projects and programs to ensure customer satisfaction, including: communicating progress to stakeholders and management; developing project charters, plans, estimates and schedules; ensuring work is completed and reporting variances; assigning tasks to team and controlling work loads; developing implementation, maintenance and support plans; tracking issues and risks; supporting project managers within other teams and mentoring junior project managers; facilitating prioritization of projects within a program; developing policies and procedures for projects; facilitating customer focus groups; designing project team staffing; and developing and executing PM training.
• Ensures that knowledge gained from project experience is reused in subsequent projects by: ensuring complete project documentation; collecting data from project activity; facilitating team collaboration; ensuring lessons learned are captured and reused.
• Ensures quality of projects by: reviewing adherence to methodology; correcting or elevating deviation from standards; and quantifying project benefits.

Common Expectations:

• Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in field of expertise.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment and safety standards.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.
• Acts as a mentor to individual(s) assigned as project leader(s).

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Degree Required

Work Experience:

• 5 years Proven Project Management with Computer Science, Business or Systems Analyst background. Required
• Healthcare experience. Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent business relationship skills.
• Excellent communications and trouble shooting/problem solving skills.
• Must be flexible, adaptable and able to function under pressure.
• Organizational skills, independent thinking and management competencies.

Benefits Offered:

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Education assistance
• Financial education and support, including DailyPay
• Expanded Paid Parental Leave

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