Senior IT Project Mgr

About the Role

Responsible for the coordinated management of multiple large-scale, critical or complex projects. The Senior IT Project Manager oversees all aspects of project work to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within the constraints of budget, schedule, and stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages cross-functional project teams, coordinating the implementation of complex IT solutions, including enterprise tools, analytics platforms, and healthcare systems.
• Oversees multiple large-scale projects with high complexity, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT strategy.
• Coordinates and manages activities of a large project team, controlling indirect management of resources and schedules to ensure timely completion.
• Works on multiple diverse projects of significant size, scope, and complexity.
• Performs project management tasks including drafting project documents, establishing and facilitating meetings of cross-functional workgroups and project steering committees, overall project coordination, planning and sequencing work, setting milestones and deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and providing status updates.
• Identifies project risks and creates and implements contingency plans.
• Identifies and resolves issues and obstacles, escalating where necessary for resolution to business owner and/or IT Lead.
• Adheres to and communicates project change management.
• Responsible for project budgeting including project cost tracking for assigned projects.
• Provides input into BMCHP’s project management process and project templates and works within the project governance process.
• Ensures the completion of project deliverables as specified in BMCHP’s SDLC process.
• Leads system projects by managing all stages of the systems development life cycle.
• Applies solid understanding of prevailing methods, principles, and techniques of a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in a single technical area or business function.
• Performs post-implementation activities, including transition plans, lessons learned, and project close-out.
• Improves project team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.
• Mentors and educates more junior Project Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, IT, engineering, business, or related subject required.
• Master’s degree a plus.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (preferred).
• Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP) (preferred).
• 7-10 years of experience in project management, including software/system project experience.
• Experience with tools used for project management (MS Project, Planview, ServiceNow PPM, Clarity, Jira, etc.) required.
• Proven success managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience in all phases of project management on medium-to-large-scale projects.
• Healthcare project management experience (e.g., hospital, health insurance, pharmacy, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) preferred.
• IT project management experience (e.g., enterprise software implementation/upgrade, hardware implementation/upgrade, IT infrastructure projects, health insurance product implementation, etc.).
• Proven success working in a highly matrixed environment.
• Proven experience in managing multiple vendors.
• Prior supervisory experience a plus.

Skills

• Deep understanding of healthcare IT systems, data interoperability, and regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency in project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, SAFe).
• Demonstrated competence using MS tools, including MS Office products, MS Project, and Visio.
• Proven ability to manage project deliverables on schedule.
• Ability to understand and interpret situations and suggest solutions based on logical reasoning.
• Working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle and PMI project management best practices.
• Analytical skills to interpret situations and suggest solutions based on logical reasoning.
• Ability to build successful relationships and manage expectations with IT and business stakeholders, including managing strong personalities.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to maintain transparent and open communication with team members, business, and IT Senior Management.
• Ability to give and receive feedback effectively.
• Successful negotiation or re-negotiation of project scope, resources, timelines, and budgeting.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.

Working Conditions

• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of the position.
• Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
• No or very limited physical effort required.
• No or very limited exposure to physical risk.

Pay

Compensation range: $112,000.00 - $162,500.00. This range offers an estimate based on minimum job qualifications. Base pay is determined by education, experience, skills, certifications/licensures as they directly relate to position requirements, as well as business/organizational needs, internal equity, and market competitiveness. Geographic location may modify this range.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy benefits.
• Discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• 403(b) savings matches.
• Paid time off.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Resources to support employee and family well-being.

Schedule

Full-Time