Healthcare Interop Project Lead (Contract)

VLink, Inc.; Canton (MA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

VLink, Inc. seeks an experienced Project Manager focused on interoperability to oversee enterprise-wide initiatives in a healthcare context. You will manage cross-functional teams, align sponsors and IT leadership, and drive governance across multiple streams to ensure project success.

The role emphasizes strong communication, vendor coordination, and agile/waterfall project delivery in a matrix environment. This is a contract position in Canton, MA, onsite.

Qualifications

• Healthcare payer experience in Interoperability / FHIR store capabilities.
• 10+ years of program/project management experience.
• Minimum 3 years in process management.
• Health insurance operations experience (5 years if not PMP).
• Proven ability to meet deadlines with successful outcomes.
• Thrive in a matrix, hands-on environment.
• Strong negotiating, influencing, and advocacy skills.
• Outstanding communication and relationship management.
• Education: Bachelor's in computer science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Manage all the phases of project management life cycle from ideation to closure, including budgeting, change management and external vendor management.
• Lead the implementation of tools and methodologies used by the delivery teams to manage scope, schedule, budget, risk and resource allocations/management for Agile and/or Waterfall projects.
• Organize teams across multiple workstreams, facilitate communication between cross functional teams and develop professional relationships to communicate through all levels from individual contributors to IT/Business leadership.
• Identify, manage, track and mitigate potential technical risks that could impact project success.
• Escalate issues and challenges through the appropriate organization chain of command along with proposed mitigations and strategies.
• Coach and mentor fellow project coordinators / project managers and effectively lead in a matrix environment.
• Ability to influence project sponsor, owner, project teams and extended stakeholders and provide thought leadership and successfully drive the organizational initiatives to closure.
• Lead the development of content for Program Stakeholder and/or Executive Steering meetings as needed and report program status per the organization guidelines.
• Leveraging outstanding verbal and written skills to effectively manage challenging dynamics. Drive innovation by understanding the application landscape and identifying opportunities for improvement and mobilizing the teams for desired outcome.

Skills

Healthcare payer experience

Interoperability

Project management

Agile / Waterfall

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant field

Tools

CQI / TQM / PDCA

PMBOK

PMP certification

Job description

VLink, Inc. seeks an experienced Project Manager focused on interoperability to oversee enterprise-wide initiatives in a healthcare context. You will manage cross-functional teams, align sponsors and IT leadership, and drive governance across multiple streams to ensure project success.

The role emphasizes strong communication, vendor coordination, and agile/waterfall project delivery in a matrix environment. This is a contract position in Canton, MA, onsite.