Contract - Sr Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary point of contact with key customers for implementation of GHX core products, leading coordination calls and aligning GHX activities with customer activities.
• Builds detailed project plans and schedules, identifying deliverables, milestones, and required tasks, while independently managing the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple large-scale projects.
• Directs and coordinates project personnel to keep the project on schedule, providing early visibility to milestones at risk and supportive analysis on the use of resources.
• Influences across the project scope without authority and works through ambiguous situations to reach tactical resolutions and go-forward action plans.
• Maintains an overall program-level risk and issue log. Facilitates risk mitigation and issue resolution across functional managers and sponsors to minimize impact to project schedule and internal stakeholder satisfaction.
• Aligns to strategic needs of the client, as well as best practice experiences. Conducts regularly scheduled meetings with stakeholders that continue to progress the project per charter / guidelines formulated at project initiation.
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle. Holds team members accountable to commitments and aligns to overall project status reporting/escalation transparently.
• Assists the teams with project best practices, techniques, and tools for planning, execution, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics, and identifies and facilitates opportunities to improve those tools and processes.
• Initiates change management reviews and contract modifications and identifies requirements for product and IT development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in project leadership roles
• 5+ years of experience with software development, implementation or integration projects either in a leadership role or as a major team contributor
• Must have a proficient understanding of the software implementation life cycle
• Advanced knowledge of project management methods and processes, including SDLC and Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks
• Demonstrated success in delivering project scope on time and within budget
• Experience managing complex customer relationships and large clinical projects that are multi-threaded, including teams with more than 8 team members
• Excellent facilitation, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills, including well-developed interpersonal skills in a customer-facing role
• Ability to work in a team environment while remaining self-directed, proactive, and action oriented, with a demonstrated passion for learning new technology
• Strong analytical and qualitative reasoning skills, with the ability to diagnose project performance problems and execute effective corrective actions
• Significant experience with the Microsoft Office suite of solutions
• ERP/MMIS experience required (or equivalent)
• Experience with integration technologies (HL7, FHIR etc)