Project Manager- Clinical Transformation

Description and Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Organize and lead project teams through the full project life cycle, from initiation through implementation and stabilization
• Develop, maintain, and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, meeting documentation, status reports, decision logs, issue trackers, and action-item tracking
• Partner with clinical, operational, technology, vendor, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure requirements are clearly understood and implementation activities align with business and clinical needs
• Translate business, clinical, and operational requirements into executable project plans, deliverables, milestones, and workstream activities
• Cook up project execution, resource planning, and cross-functional activities to ensure projects are completed on schedule, within scope, and aligned to budget expectations
• Maintain project governance materials required for medium-to-large-scale initiatives, including status reporting, risk and issue logs, dependency tracking, and escalation materials
• Establish and actively manage project stakeholder expectations, relationships, communication rhythms, and accountability structures
• Monitor and report on project milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies, escalating to leadership as appropriate
• Manage deliverables across functional teams to ensure outputs meet defined timelines, quality expectations, implementation requirements, and project guidelines
• Tailor project management methods based on project size, complexity, delivery methodology, stakeholder needs, regulatory considerations, and organizational impact
• Report project status to project sponsors and leadership, escalating changes, risks, issues, and barriers for resolution as needed
• Collaborate with resource managers and functional leaders to support appropriate resource planning and project delivery
• Achieve project objectives in accordance with Healthfirst project management methodologies, standards, policies, and governance expectations
• Perform additional duties as assigned

  Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience
  • HS Diploma or GED from an Accredited Institution
  • Experience managing cross-functional projects that yielded meaningful results
  • Experience engaging and communicating with key stakeholders including senior-level leadership
  • Experience with project change management, portfolio risk management, project communication management and organization change management
  • Experience managing multiple priorities, coordinating across teams, escalating issues appropriately, and driving project execution in a matrixed environment

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree from an accredited institution
  • Advanced-level certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), or Lean
  • Prior experience leading medium to large scale, clinically focused projects within healthcare or health insurance
  • Demonstrated experience delivering AI-enabled platforms, advanced analytics solutions or new software platforms solutions within healthcare operations
  • Experience supporting technology implementations, application upgrades, platform migrations, system integrations, or operational transformation initiatives
  • Industry work experience in healthcare such as hospital, including managed or long-term care, health insurance, hospital long-term care, government or other healthcare agency
  • Knowledgeable of Department of Health (DOH) and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations

  Hiring Range*

  Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $103,400 - $149,430
  All Other Locations (within approved locations): $88,700 - $131,920

  *The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in “good faith” would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.