Senior Project Manager - Heart and Vascular Service Line

UNC Health; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead enterprise-wide projects, coordinating with executive leaders, physicians, clinicians, and administrative teams. You will plan, coordinate, and implement strategic initiatives that advance organizational goals while minimizing disruption to patient care and business operations.

The role oversees all phases of the project lifecycle, applying PMP-level leadership, governance, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement to ensure on-time

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years of experience in project management or program management.
• Strong knowledge of project management techniques and tools.
• Licensure/Certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, PgMP, PMI-ACP, CSP or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Project Leadership: Lead large-scale, highly complex projects and strategic initiatives across UNC Health.
• Project Governance and Risk Management: Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities; maintain governance; ensure compliance.

Skills

Project management skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

The UNC Health Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading enterprise-wide projects and strategic initiatives of significant scope, complexity, and organizational impact. This role develops and executes project strategies and transformational initiatives across UNC Health.

The Senior Project Manager partners with executive leaders, operational stakeholders, physicians, clinicians, and administrative teams to plan, coordinate, and implement projects that advance organizational goals while minimizing disruption to patient care and business operations. This role oversees all phases of the project lifecycle, including project planning, governance, resource coordination, risk mitigation, stakeholder engagement, implementation, and transition to operational ownership.

The Senior Project Manager serves as a trusted advisor to leadership, driving collaboration across entities and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with UNC Health's strategic priorities. The successful candidate demonstrates the ability to anticipate risks, resolve ambiguity, navigate conflict, negotiate solutions, and advance organizational objectives with limited oversight. Applies PMP-level leadership and judgment to align projects with organizational priorities while proactively resolving challenges and driving successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Project Leadership: Lead large-scale, highly complex projects and strategic initiatives across UNC Health. Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, deliverables, resource requirements, communication plans, and success metrics to ensure effective execution. Monitor project progress and implement corrective actions as needed to achieve established goals and objectives.
• Project Governance and Risk Management: Identify project risks, dependencies, barriers, and opportunities, and developing mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes. Establish and maintain project governance structures, monitoring project scope, timeline, budget, and deliverables. Develop and maintain project documentation, status reports, executive summaries, and presentations for leadership review. Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and internal controls throughout project execution.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Collaborate with executive leadership, operational leaders, physicians, clinicians, and cross-functional teams to align project goals and drive successful outcomes. Facilitate meetings, workgroups, and steering committees to build consensus, resolve issues, and advance project objectives. Communicate project strategies, milestones, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Process Improvement and Integration: Analyze complex operational, organizational, and project-related issues and develop solutions that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and organizational performance. Support the implementation of sustainable processes and best practices that enhance enterprise effectiveness while minimizing disruption to patient care and business operations.
• Project Financial Management: Partner with leadership to develop, monitor, and manage project-related operating and capital budgets. Track project expenditures and resource utilization, providing financial forecasts and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Change Management and Implementation: Lead organizational change efforts associated with project implementation, ensuring stakeholder readiness and adoption. Coordinate project activities through implementation and transition to operational ownership, ensuring successful handoff and sustainability of project outcomes.
• Project Management Standards and Mentorship: Promote project management best practices, tools, methodologies, and governance standards across the organization. Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to project managers, project teams, and stakeholders related to project planning, execution, and performance improvement.

Other Information

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• Project Management Profession or equivalent credentials such as a PRINCE2 Practitioner, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).

Professional Experience Requirements:

• Seven (7) years of experience in project management or program management.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of project management techniques and tools.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: HCS H&V Service Line

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.