Sr Project Manager - Enterprise Transformation Office

About the role

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being. Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for independently leading multiple complex, short or long term, and high visibility projects and/or programs throughout their life cycle. It is a customer-facing role, requiring coordination and collaboration with multiple internal and external stakeholders (i.e. IS, Data Analytics, clinical and operational stakeholders, PD&C, Compliance, Privacy, Accreditation and Regulatory, Supply Chain, Learning, Marketing and Communications, etc.) to effectively manage the project scope, budget and timeline to ensure the project goals are met. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for collecting and documenting project requirements, developing the project plan, project communication, status reporting, vendor management, risk and issue management, and additional project tasks.

Responsibilities

• Independently applies project management processes and procedures to define and monitor project scope, budget, quality and schedule
• Identifies the impact across all functional areas and convenes appropriate stakeholders
• Coordinates and leads multiple meetings with senior leadership teams and business partners, including but not limited to status meetings, requirements gathering meetings and lessons learned meetings
• Collects requirements and defines and sequences activities to develop the Project Schedule
• Ensures project deliverables satisfy project requirements throughout project life cycle
• Identifies, monitors, and addresses project risks and issues
• Monitors and implements change management plan as needed
• Develops and employs communication plan to ensure project communication is effective and timely
• Defines and communicates project roles and responsibilities, project scope, conditions of satisfaction, project status, and risks and issues as needed
• Assists with the procurement and management of external consultants and vendors as required
• Documents all project activity using established processes and associated templates and tools
• Monitors, documents and reports lessons learned among project team and peers
• Tracks, documents, and reports project time, effort, and additional information as required to inform Project Manager/Department capacity
• Mentors and trains project teams and vendors in project management methods, procedures and activities
• Assists with Department and system wide project reporting
• Coaches peers and provides assistance as needed
• Consistently evaluates how to improve the Department's services and processes

Qualifications

Work Experience: At least 7 years job related experience required; Experience as a Project Manager, Implementation Manager or Project Coordinator required.

Education: Bachelors Degree required; Masters Degree preferred.

Licenses and Certifications: Lean Six Sigma-2P-LSS Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Lean Six Sigma Belt preferred; Project Mgmt Professional-2P-PMP required. For ETO employees only: Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Employees employed before 10/1/25 are required to be certified by 12/31/26. Time Frame: Upon Hire.

Benefits

• Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.
• 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure.
• Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks).
• Caregiver Leave.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.