SR PROJECT MANAGER - JHP

Job Details

The Senior Project Manager leads multiple highly complex, cross-functional projects that advance organizational priorities. This role facilitates alignment among enterprise-wide stakeholders to achieve shared goals, resolve conflicting interests, and deliver measurable outcomes. The Senior PM owns the full project lifecycle — from initiation through execution and post-implementation — while mentoring junior PMO staff and contributing to broader process improvement initiatives.

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for business and technical stakeholders across departments, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Build and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead multiple, enterprise-wide projects with significant complexity, visibility, and impact.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with management, vendors, cross-functional team members, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor and manage project budgets, resource allocations, and vendor contracts; make necessary course corrections to meet financial targets.
• Prepare and contribute to business development and project management artifacts (e.g., RFPs, SOWs, project charters, timelines, evaluation frameworks).
• Work with Executive Sponsors and project leads to develop comprehensive project charters outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and success metrics.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical (internal and external) audiences to ensure shared understanding of scope, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide leadership to a diverse, matrixed project team which may include other Project Management staff as well as all levels of management.
• Facilitate effective project status meetings, steering committees, and executive briefings.
• Collaborate with business owners and IT to ensure systems and solutions deliver meaningful value and ROI.
• Represent the PMO in cross-departmental forums and serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on key initiatives.
• Lead process improvement and business process re-engineering efforts that uncover operational efficiencies and may initiate new project work (when needed).
• Demonstrate advanced expertise in time management, facilitation, organizational communication, and negotiation to achieve project goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):

• Proficiency with modern project management tools preferred (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, etc.).
• Strong leadership, communication, and conflict resolution skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen, including budget tracking and resource forecasting.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project methodologies.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience. Master’s preferred.

AND

Experience:

• 5+ years of progressive project management experience, with demonstrated success leading large-scale, complex initiatives.
• Experience in healthcare, payer systems, or highly regulated environments preferred.

Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:

PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification strongly preferred.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Health Partners Plans, Inc.

Primary Location Address

1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.