Manager Program

St. Joseph's Health; Woodland Park (NJ); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

PTO and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

St. Joseph’s Health seeks a senior project manager to lead multiple high‑priority enterprise initiatives within a healthcare setting.

You will oversee end‑to‑end project life cycles, including intake, planning, scope, budgets, and risk management, while coordinating with executives, staff, clinicians, and external vendors. You will drive ePMO standards, deliver value aligned with strategic goals, and adapt plans as needs evolve; remote or onsite work options apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of project management experience.
• At least 3 years leading project teams.
• PMP certification is required; CSM preferred.
• Healthcare IT and IT/medical device projects experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct multiple high‑priority enterprise projects and programs.
• Oversee intake, visioning, planning, scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality.
• Coordinate with administrative, clinical, technical, and external partners.
• Communicate status, issues, risks, milestones, and timelines to stakeholders.
• Develop and implement ePMO standards, reports, and portfolios; work remote or onsite as needed.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Team collaboration

Risk management

Budget & scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PMP certification

CSM certification

Healthcare IT experience

Tools

MS Outlook

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Adobe Workfront

SharePoint

MS Project

Visio

Job description

Job Description

• Leads and directs multiple high‑priority, complex, and large strategic enterprise projects and programs simultaneously. Oversees all aspects of projects, including project intake, visioning, planning, scope, schedule, cost, risk, monitoring, quality, procurement, resource, communication, and stakeholder management activities. Delivers projects in a demanding healthcare environment and works with administrative, clinical, technical, vendors, and external partners in the development and completion of project charters and statements of scope, financial estimates, timelines, action plans and task lists, resource plans, and work estimates. Identifies and manages interdependencies, resources, risks, budgets, and schedules across the enterprise projects and programs. Ensures all projects and programs are delivering value to the organization and align with the organization’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Interacts with staff, management, executives, and vendor project teams to continually communicate details regarding project status, issues, risks, milestones, and timelines. Leads and manages large, diverse and geographically dispersed project team throughout the project lifecycle to plan and execute projects. Serves as the point of contact for key internal and external project stakeholders.
• Has the ability to develop plans starting with vague or ambiguous information. Collects, analyzes, and synthesizes data to compose clear, meaningful communications. Serves as a leader within the ePMO team. Takes the initiative to identify opportunities for improvement, creates best practices, and implements standards for a continuously evolving ePMO. Creates, presents, and implements ePMO methodology, reports, deliverables and toolsets in a constantly evolving ePMO. Works remotely or onsite as business and project needs require.

Qualifications

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
• At least ten (10) years of project management experience.
• At least three (3) years of experience managing project teams.
• Analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to exercise sound judgment.
• Strong attention to detail and polished customer service, communication, collaboration, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and advanced skill level using Microsoft Excel.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.
• Healthcare industry knowledge and experience is preferred.
• Experience with information technology (IT), medical device and equipment implementation and upgrade projects is required.
• Master’s degree is a plus.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification from Scrum Alliance is preferred.
• Experience with Adobe Workfront or similar project portfolio management (PPM) tools, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Project, and/or Microsoft Visio is required.

About Us

St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.

Benefits Eligibility

• Competitive salary
• Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
• 403b retirement plan options with company match
• Health & Wellness
• Non‑Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
• PTO, and paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• LTD: Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance Options
• Onsite Day care Program
• Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
• 403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

Pay transparency

St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law. The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, etc. The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation.

About The Team

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.

The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.

The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ – one of only 8 Magnet‑designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.