Epic Program Manager

GHR Healthcare; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GHR Healthcare in Pittsburgh seeks an experienced Epic Program Manager to lead planning, execution, and delivery of a large-scale Epic implementation, providing strategic oversight across workstreams and ensuring alignment among executives, clinical and operational leaders, IT teams, and vendors.

The role requires senior healthcare IT leadership with a proven track record in enterprise Epic deployments from planning through go-live and stabilization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of healthcare IT project/program management experience.
• 5+ years leading enterprise Epic implementations.
• Experience managing full lifecycle Epic deployments in acute care or ambulatory settings.
• Strong understanding of Epic methodologies and governance.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional teams and multiple work streams.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage budgets, timelines, risks, and vendor relationships.
• Familiarity with PMI, Agile, Waterfall, or similar project management approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall Epic implementation program across scope, schedule, budget, risks, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain an integrated master project plan with milestones and dependencies.
• Partner with executive sponsors and stakeholders to drive project success.
• Establish governance structures and provide executive-level status reporting.
• Coordinate activities across application teams, infrastructure, and training.
• Monitor budgets and vendor performance; mitigate risks and issues.
• Oversee readiness activities including testing, training, go-live, and stabilization.
• Foster collaboration and transparent communication across internal teams and partners.

Skills

Epic program management

Healthcare IT

Enterprise Epic deployments

Governance & steering committees

Executive communication

Budget & risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Job description

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We are seeking an experienced Epic Program Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of a large-scale Epic implementation. This individual will provide strategic oversight across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment between executive leadership, clinical and operational stakeholders, IT teams, and third-party vendors. The ideal candidate is a seasoned healthcare IT leader with a proven track record of successfully managing complex enterprise Epic implementations from planning through go-live and stabilizat

ion.
Key Responsibil

• ities
  Lead the overall Epic implementation program, managing scope, schedule, budget, risks, and deliverables across all project workst
• reams.Develop and maintain an integrated master project plan, ensuring milestones and dependencies are tracked and communi
• cated.Partner with executive sponsors, operational leaders, clinical stakeholders, and Epic representatives to drive project su
• ccess.Establish governance structures, facilitate steering committee meetings, and provide executive-level status repo
• rting.Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks and issues while proactively driving resol
• ution.Coordinate activities across application teams, infrastructure, revenue cycle, clinical operations, training, testing, data conversion, integration, and change manag
• ement.Ensure project adherence to Epic implementation methodologies and organizational project management stan
• dards.Monitor project budgets, resource allocation, and vendor perfor
• mance.Lead cross-functional decision-making and ensure stakeholder alignment throughout the implementation life
• cycle.Oversee readiness activities including integrated testing, end-user training, cutover planning, go-live preparation, and stabiliz
• ation.Foster collaboration across internal teams and external implementation par
• tners.Drive continuous communication and transparency throughout the pr

oject.
Required Qualifi

• cations
  10+ years of healthcare IT project/program management exp
• erience.5+ years leading enterprise Epic implementation p
• rograms.Demonstrated experience managing full lifecycle Epic implementations in acute care, ambulatory, or integrated healthcare envir
• onments.Strong understanding of Epic implementation methodology and gov
• ernance.Experience managing large, cross-functional teams and multiple concurrent work
• streams.Excellent executive communication, leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder management
• skills.Proven ability to manage project budgets, timelines, risks, and vendor relati
• onships.Experience with project management methodologies (PMI, Agile, Waterfall, or

hybrid).
Preferred Quali

• fications
  Epic implementation experience involving multiple applications or enterprise-wide de
• ployments.Experience working with healthcare consulting firms or large healt
• h systems.Experience leading remote proj