Healthcare IT Resource Strategist

MultiPlan; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Claritev in McLean, VA seeks a Resource Manager to plan, allocate, and optimize resources across professional services and initiatives. You will forecast demand, balance priorities, and partner with leaders to ensure successful execution in healthcare IT environments.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, stakeholder management, and data-driven decisions, with a focus on sustainable workloads and skills development across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Healthcare Administration, Business, Human Resources, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in resource management, workforce planning, project/program management, IT delivery, or a related discipline.
• Experience working within healthcare IT, healthcare technology, or a comparable complex technology environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing resource capacity, demand, utilization, and staffing forecasts.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and negotiate resource assignments across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency with resource planning, project management, reporting, and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan, allocate, and optimize resources across projects, programs, and operational initiatives.
• Match resource skills, experience, availability, and career objectives with project requirements.
• Maintain visibility into current and future resource capacity, utilization, and availability.
• Coordinate resource transitions between projects and minimize bench time or over-allocation.
• Resolve resource conflicts in partnership with project, program, and functional leaders.
• Support prioritization decisions when resource demand exceeds available capacity.
• Develop short- and long-term resource forecasts with leadership and delivery teams.
• Analyze project pipelines, staffing requirements, and anticipated demand by role and skill set.
• Identify capacity shortages, skill gaps, and potential delivery risks early.
• Recommend hiring, contractor, cross-training, or redeployment strategies based on forecasted needs.
• Develop and maintain resource plans that align workforce capacity with business priorities.
• Develop a strong understanding of team members' technical capabilities, healthcare domain expertise, certifications, experience, and professional interests.
• Partner with managers and employees to identify development opportunities that strengthen organizational capabilities.
• Support succession planning and development of critical skills.
• Identify opportunities for cross-training and knowledge transfer.
• Promote balanced workloads and sustainable resource utilization.
• Support staffing across all projects, initiatives and managed services contracts.
• Consider healthcare-specific knowledge when making assignments, including clinical and administrative workflows, healthcare data, interoperability, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with delivery leadership to ensure resource plans support project timelines, milestones, and service commitments.
• Escalate resource-related risks that could affect project delivery, quality, or customer commitments.
• Develop and maintain resource management dashboards, reports, and staffing forecasts.
• Monitor metrics such as utilization, capacity, demand, vacancies, contractor usage, allocation, and forecast accuracy.
• Analyze resource trends and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Maintain accurate resource information within applicable workforce, project portfolio management, or resource management systems.
• Build relationships with project managers, program managers, technology leaders, business leaders, HR, Talent Acquisition, and Finance.
• Facilitate regular resource planning and staffing discussions.
• Communicate staffing decisions, constraints, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders.
• Serve as a central point of coordination for resource requests and allocation decisions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Resource planning

Project management

Reporting tools

Collaboration tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT/Healthcare Admin/Business or related field

Job description

Claritev in McLean, VA seeks a Resource Manager to plan, allocate, and optimize resources across professional services and initiatives. You will forecast demand, balance priorities, and partner with leaders to ensure successful execution in healthcare IT environments.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, stakeholder management, and data-driven decisions, with a focus on sustainable workloads and skills development across teams.