Project Manager
Horizontal Talent · Rochester, MN · Yesterday
RemoteRemoteInformation TechnologyContract
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead and support multiple medium-to-large, cross-functional initiatives in a complex enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and provide day-to-day project management across multiple initiatives and workstreams.
- Develop, maintain, and manage project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Track and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items.
- Cook up and coordinate activities across product, technical, operational, business, vendor, and leadership teams.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within established budgets, and in alignment with organizational project management standards.
- Prepare and communicate project status reports, dashboards, executive updates, and other project communications.
- Facilitate project meetings, planning sessions, decision-making discussions, and conflict resolution.
- Identify project blockers and dependencies and drive appropriate resolution or escalation.
- Support change management, implementation planning, and operational readiness activities.
- Manage multiple priorities and workstreams while maintaining visibility into the broader program strategy and objectives.
- Build strong relationships across a matrixed organization and drive accountability for commitments and deliverables.
- Coordinate with external vendors and contractors when applicable.
Agile & Delivery Leadership
- Apply Agile methodologies and practices to support effective project and product delivery.
- Facilitate or support Scrum ceremonies, planning sessions, backlog refinement, and delivery tracking.
- Guide teams in the adoption and consistent application of Agile practices and values.
- Partner closely with Product Owners to develop, prioritize, and refine backlogs.
- Identify and remove impediments or help teams determine the appropriate path to resolution.
- Absorb and analyze data to identify opportunities to improve team efficiency, delivery quality, predictability, and timeliness.
- Facilitate collaborative decision-making and conflict resolution without relying on command-and-control management.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience in project management and related business activities, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of project management experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing medium-to-large, cross-functional projects or programs.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and the full project lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with Agile delivery methodologies and Jira.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, initiatives, or workstreams.
- Strong project planning, risk management, dependency management, and delivery tracking capabilities.
- Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across business, product, technology, operations, and leadership teams.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate complex discussions, drive decisions, and resolve conflicts.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to understand strategic objectives while maintaining attention to execution details.
- Proactive problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision and some ambiguity.
- Experience working within complex, matrixed enterprise organizations.
- Experience supporting senior program or portfolio leadership across multiple interconnected workstreams.
- Experience with project budgeting, financial tracking, vendors, and resource management.
- PMP or related project management certification.
- Scrum or Agile certification.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting large-scale healthcare, healthcare technology, or digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience working with product-oriented teams or digital/product portfolios.
- Experience within a large, highly matrixed healthcare organization.
- Experience supporting senior program or portfolio leadership across multiple interconnected workstreams.
- Experience with project budgeting, financial tracking, vendors, and resource management.
- Relevant certifications may include: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Product Management or related product certifications.