Senior IT Project Mgr

POSITION SUMMARY:

Responsible for the coordinated management of multiple large-scale, critical or complex projects. The Senior IT Project Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing all aspects of project work to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within the constraints of the budget, schedule, and stakeholder expectations.  Monitors progress according to plan, identifying and coordinating resolution of issues, reporting progress and escalating problems when necessary.  Communicates project status updates to stakeholders, including senior management.

Position: Senior IT Project Mgr

Department: Business Systems Analysis

Schedule: Full-Time

Key Functions/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 the 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, including planning and sequencing work, setting milestones and deadlines, assigning responsibilities and providing status updates.

• Responsible for identifying project risks and creating and implementing contingency plans.

• Identifies and works to resolve issues and obstacles, escalating where necessary for resolution to business owner and/or IT Lead.

• Responsible for adhering to and communicating 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.

• Has responsibility for ensuring 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.

• Improve project team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.

• Mentors and educates more junior Project Managers.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, IT, engineering, business or related subject required

• Master’s degree a plus

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (preferred)

• Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP) (preferred)

EXPERIENCE:

• 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

• Demonstrated technical skills and knowledge

KNOWLEDGE AND 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 t