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TELUS Health is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead high-stakes healthcare system implementations across Canada within the TELUS Health Payvider Operations PMO. Manage EMR, health benefits, and pharmacy deployments from business case to charter and planning, with the ability to shape your own framework.
You will lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with senior leadership, and ensure delivery excellence while mentoring staff and driving standardized PM practices across projects.
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Jobs by Category: Health
Job Function: Health Solutions
Status: Full Time
Schedule: Regular
Our team and what we'll accomplish together
As a Senior Project Manager on the TELUS Health Payvider Operations Project Management team, you'll lead complex, high-stakes healthcare system implementations that directly impact customers across Canada. You’ll manage large-scale projects in our Electronic Medical Records (EMR) space, Health Benefits Management initiatives, and/or Pharmacy system deployments, working independently to drive projects from business case and project charter through project planning with flexibility to develop your own framework. Your leadership will be critical for successful project delivery, working alongside a collaborative, values-driven team committed to continuous improvement and excellence.
What you'll do
Lead complex projects in our Payvider Operations portfolio - whether EMR, Health Benefits Management, or Pharmacy system implementations; working independently but overseeing a team to develop project charters, creating business cases, managing schedules, budgets, and risk with minimal supervision while escalating strategically when needed
Present to senior leadership with confidence and clarity, translating complex technical and project information into actionable insights that drive decision-making across client and internal stakeholders
Manage diverse, matrixed project teams (Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Clinical teams, Communications, vendors) through facilitation and mentorship, ensuring alignment across internal TELUS teams and external client organizations
Champion standardized project management methodologies, tools, and collaborative platforms while driving delivery excellence and mentoring functional team members
Manage and analyze complex reporting and ensure implementations deliver tangible benefits to TELUS Health and customers
Develop highly effective project communications (infographics, briefing notes, executive reports) tailored to diverse audiences, from client-facing comms to executive leadership/Steerco updates
What you bring
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Healthcare, or a related field
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Minimum 5+ years of progressive project management experience with demonstrated expertise in project management principles, tools, and methodologies
Minimum 5+ years leading large-scale, complex healthcare system implementations (EMR, clinical systems, health benefits platforms) through full project lifecycle including sustainability planning
Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision, managing multiple competing priorities under pressure and meeting firm deadlines
Advanced proficiency in healthcare system implementations with demonstrated understanding of health systems, operational complexity, and patient care impact
Strong leadership skills including decision‑making, influencing without formal authority, and managing stakeholder expectations in matrixed environments
Demonstrated expertise in managing ambiguity and applying change management and systems thinking methodologies
Ability to communicate complex information clearly to diverse audiences from clinical staff to senior leadership
Great-to-haves
Graduate degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Management, or a related field
Advanced training or certification in change management and implementation science
Advanced knowledge of English is required because you will most of the time interact in English with external parties (clients, suppliers, candidates, external partners, etc.); interact in English with internal parties (colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, etc.); and work with IT tools whose interface is only accessible in English as part of this position's main responsibilities given its national scope.
Salary Range: $86,000-$136,000
Performance Bonus or Sales Incentive Plan: 15%
Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience.
TELUS offers rewarding benefits, which may vary per job function, such as:
Job Type: This is for a current vacancy
We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.
You’ll find our engaging, high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you’re helping us make the future friendly.
TELUS Health is an IT leader in Canada that focuses on the health sector. Our mission is to improve the way information is being used along the continuum of care to better the health of citizens in Canada and in selected countries.
Disclaimer: In accordance with the TELUS Health Solutions Data Center Security Policy, as a condition of employment, all team members whose job functions require they work at a Data Center and/or have access to detailed knowledge of technology related to client service delivery, are subject to a Personnel Security Screening conducted through the Government of Canada.
Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team memberwill be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.
We’re looking for clinicians, programmers, product developers, sales and marketing people, customer support, and everyone in between. If you have a penchant for turning information into better health outcomes, then we want you to help us develop, implement and manage the most innovative healthcare solutions possible.
21,166
Physicians using TELUS Health electronic medical records
140 million+
Health claims processed using TELUS Health solutions
TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.