IT Project Manager Professional

About the role

The IT PMO Project Manager leads information technology strategies by managing staff; researching and implementing technological strategic solutions. Provides value to the organization by creating clear expectations, faster execution, fewer issues, better decisions and a higher customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technology solutions and applications.
• Coordinates interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Develops comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
• Manages operational workflow changes in conjunction with the technology solutions and applications implementation.
• Coordinates the vendor selection process; assists with contract negotiations and preparations then monitors projects for conformance to approved plans and contract specifications.
• Coordinates acquisition of resources and materials as needed before and during projects by talking with customers, team members, managers, and in-house accountants and negotiating price and payment agreements with vendors.
• Work with vendors and developers to develop or implement technology and application solutions.
• Develops and monitors project budgets, which includes allocating resources and tracking and approving expenditures; prepares reports detailing the status of the project budget.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
• Coordinates the work of consultants and team members assigned responsibility for various portions of a project; confers with multi-disciplinary leaders to establish work plan responsibilities and scope of authority; ensures technical proficiency and productivity of project staff and arranges for training as necessary.
• Plans and conducts project meetings with stakeholders and team members; develops and maintains a communication plan and related project status reports for key stakeholders.
• Reviews and analyzes project changes requests and makes recommendations related to the execution of these requests.
• Conducts risk, cost and benefit analyses, manages risk associated with projects, and devises strategies to deal with unexpected crises and unresolved risks.
• Plans and conducts change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage and minimize resistance.
• Inspect projects for quality assurance.
• Performs project closure activities including release of contract and permanent team members from the project, and completing lessons learned and project implementation review of best practices.

Qualifications

• Degrees: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, computer science, or a directly related field.
• Experience: Three (3) years of project management or business/project analyst experience required. Previous healthcare project management experience is strongly preferred. Clinical experience is strongly preferred, with Registered Nurse (RN) candidates highly preferred.
• Equivalency: Four years experience above stated requirements may substitute for bachelor's degree.

Pay

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience. Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $97,718.13 to $146,577.200

Benefits

• Base pay
• Incentives
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Company provided life and disability insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 403b employer match (retirement savings)
• A robust wellness program
• Access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help advance your career
• Annual employee bonus program based on organizational performance (paid out the following April if goals are met)
• Annual base pay increases based on performance over the previous year

Schedule

Hours per Week: 40, eligible for benefits (salaried). Shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm. Weekend/holiday/on-call availability may be required depending on project needs. This is a hybrid position, which requires you to live in the state of Colorado.