Project Manager Senior, EPMO

Cone Health; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cone Health is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead and coordinate a variety of operational and strategic projects within our healthcare system. You will act as a project management consultant, advising operational leaders and aligning deliverables with the organization’s strategic goals.

The role requires 5-8 years of project management experience and certifications such as PMP or Agile Professional. Expect cross-functional leadership, strict budget oversight, and strong stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5-8 years of project management experience.
• PMI PMP or Agile Certified Professional (CSP/SAFe) certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Strategic planning: Develops the overall approach for the project(s), its significant time frames, and the definition of its major deliverables to address and meet the desired goals and outcomes.
• Team Leadership: Motivate and guide teams, build consensus, and make informed decisions.
• Budget Management: Monitor budgets and expenses, work with finance to ensure financial compliance, and control costs.
• Communication management: Communicate with sponsors to formulate agendas and convey information to diverse stakeholders.
• Stakeholder engagement: Build and maintain relationships with hospital departments, physicians, vendors, and regulatory agencies.
• Regularly creates and presents project reports, including status updates and metrics to leadership.
• Performance monitoring: Track metrics and identify needs and changes, directing corrective actions.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies proactively.
• Identifies and addresses issues, resolves priorities, and escalates as needed.
• Resource allocation: Optimize resource use across projects with portfolio manager involvement.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Coordinate dependencies across projects with diverse teams.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strategic planning

Team leadership

Budget management

Communication management

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Resource allocation

Risk & issue management

Performance monitoring

Reporting & presentation

Education

Bachelor|s Degree

Job description

Sep 22, 2026

The Project Manager Senior leads and manages the development, implementation, and coordination for a variety of operational and strategic projects. This role serves as a project management consultant to advise, coordinate, and oversee the work of operational leaders. This job coordinates activities with various internal and external consultants and stakeholders.

Essential Job Function

• Strategic planning: Develops the overall approach for the project(s), its significant time frames, and the definition of its major deliverables to address and meet the desired goals and outcomes. Defines scope, and deliverables, creating a comprehensive project plan, and aligning it with the company's strategic vision.


• Team Leadership: Possess the ability to motivate and guide teams, build consensus, and make informed decisions


• Budget Management: Monitors project budgets, tracking project expenses for equipment, supplies, and contracted services, while working closely with the finance department to ensure financial compliance and cost-efficient project execution. Identifies cost variances and takes corrective actions to stay within budget constraints.


• Communication management: Communicates and strategizes with project sponsors to formulate meeting agendas. Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey information to diverse stakeholders


• Facilitates communications and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders, including hospital departments, physicians, vendors, and regulatory agencies, to address project-related concerns, obtain necessary approvals.


• Regularly creates and presents project reports, including status updates, performance metrics, and key insights to key stakeholders, including senior leadership, team members, and clients.


• Performance monitoring: Participates in review with the project and portfolio sponsors and stakeholders to identify organic or specific project needs and changes and directs appropriate approaches to address. Tracks project metrics, analyzes performance data to identify areas for improvement.


• Risk & Issue Management: Identifies potential risks and develops mitigation strategies to address them proactively.


• Identifies and addresses issues, resolves competing priorities and makes necessary adjustments to the plan. Escalates conflicts and issues when appropriate.


• Resource allocation: Optimizes resource utilization across projects working in partnership with the assigned portfolio manager, including budget management and personnel allocation.


• Stakeholder engagement: Acts as an advisor and builds and maintains relationships across the wider stakeholder community. Interacts with project sponsors to inform, alert, negotiate, and maintain a continuing good relationship and shared vision for the program outcome.


• Cross-functional collaboration: Monitors and coordinates dependencies across the projects in the portfolio and works seamlessly with diverse teams from different departments to ensure on-time delivery.


• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Required: Bachelor's Degree

Experience

• Required: 5 -8 years in project management

Licensure/Certification/Listing

• Required: Project Management Institute Certification (PMP) or Agile Certified Professional (Certified Scrum Master) or Scaled Agile Certified Professional