Delivery Lead

Optomi; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovative team environment

Executive visibility

Leadership opportunities

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology firm seeks an IS Delivery Leader for a fully remote position. This role involves accountability for strategic program management and successful project implementation in clinical solutions. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in program management methodologies and EHR systems, along with strong leadership and analytical skills. If you are a critical thinker with a track record in healthcare operations, this opportunity provides executive visibility and a chance to shape vital business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of strategic program management experience.
• 8-10 years of large scale project implementation experience.
• Expertise in clinical workflows and healthcare operations.
• Expertise in EHR systems is a must.
• Awareness of state and federal healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Experience with program management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Strong planning, organizing, and risk management skills.
• Ability to model financial impact and develop business cases.

Responsibilities

• Develop program strategy aligning with business goals.
• Own clinical programs for strategic outcomes.
• Coordinate cross-project dependencies.
• Align initiatives to stakeholder priorities and business goals.
• Deliver business value beyond project implementation alone.
• Bridge strategy and execution across initiatives for efficiency.
• Partner with Portfolio Owner from ideation to implementation including KPI definition and financial aspects.

Skills

Program management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile)

Strategic program management

Financial acumen

Project implementation experience

Critical thinking

Financial acumen and business case p.

Leadership and team coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

Overview

Optomi, in partnership with a leading healthcare company, is seeking an IS Delivery Leader for a fully remote position! In this role, you will be accountable for the different initiatives of the dedicated service lines. The Leader partners with the Portfolio Partners to ensure initiatives are delivered with the intended business outcomes through the means of project implementation and operational support by the PMO team. The ideal candidate is a strong leader and critical thinker who excels at driving clarity, mitigating risk, and enabling teams to deliver business outcomes.

What the right candidate will enjoy:

• Work alongside an innovative team!
• Executive visibility and exposure!
• Strong leadership opportunity!

What type of experience does the right candidate have:

• 2-5 years of strategic program management experience.
• 8-10 years of hands-on large scale and complex project implementation experience focused on clinical solutions used to deliver care to patients.
• Demonstrated knowledge of clinical workflows and healthcare operations, coupled with program/project management experience.
• Expertise in EHR systems is a must.
• Awareness of state and federal healthcare regulatory requirements that may impact program delivery.
• Critical thinking is a must. Discipline in analyzing information, questioning assumptions, and evaluating arguments to form well-reasoned judgments and solve problems effectively without relying on status-quo or others' direction.
• Expertise in program management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Highly skilled at planning, organizing, time/task/resource/risk management.
• Strong financial acumen; develop business cases and model financial impact of large programs to help educate the organization on decision making.
• Ability to establish, review and adjust metrics to accurately E progress.

What the responsibilities are of the right candidate:

• Develop program strategy in meeting business goals and priorities.
• End-to-End ownership and accountability of clinical programs for strategic outcomes and business values.
• Cross-Project coordination, dependency management, and strategic alignment.
• Aligns and Adapt initiatives to business goals and stakeholder priorities.
• Outcome-driven, focusing on strategic results and delivering business value, rather than project implementation alone.
• Bridges strategy and execution across initiatives to maximize efficiency and chance of achieving business goals.
• Partner with Portfolio Owner from ideation to implementation (business initiatives, values, business case, KPI definition & Collection, financial, implementation, KPI Collections).

Team & Project Management

• Direct (generate new thinking vs following instruction alone) and make decisions to guide the team through challenges and unchartered areas.
• Charter new areas and responsibilities as the organization evolves to meet business goals.
• Provide direction and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Supervise Delivery Managers of service lines.
• Capacity planning of demands and incoming projects to ensure programs are aligned with company strategy, resource constraints, and operational priorities.
• Delivery Manager assignment, prioritization, and recruitment of FTE/contractor.
• Oversee project health throughout the project life cycle. Get involved and be hands-on as required to ensure project success.
• Provide support and coaching to other Delivery Leaders, Delivery Managers, and Delivery Specialists.
• Owns, applies, and upholds Enterprise PMO governance and procedures to ensure adherence for success.
• Serves as a point of project escalation. Pro-actively works across groups to mitigate risk and resolve issues.
• Drives a behavior of transparency, urgency, results, and escalation as appropriate.
• Review of work and deliveries of assigned Delivery Managers.
• End to End project implementation ownership and accountability (Planning, Resource, Risk, Issue, Escalation, Financial, Execution, Delivery, Communication, Phase Gate, Deliverables/Artifacts, KPI collections).