Sr Project Manager

University Hospitals; Shaker Heights (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals seeks a seasoned IT project manager to oversee complex, medium-to-large healthcare information technology initiatives. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage vendor relationships, and ensure projects meet scope, schedule, and budget targets using PMI methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.

The role involves steering multiple projects, delivering clear status updates to senior leadership, and mentoring other PMs, with a focus on PHI safety and regulatory compliance

Qualifications

• Experience leading mid to large IT projects in healthcare.
• Ability to manage teams of 20–30+ resources.
• Budgets from $50K to multimillion-dollar efforts.
• Coordination with vendors, internal services and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple IT&S projects and programs with complex objectives.
• Manage teams of 20–30+ resources from multiple areas.
• Oversee budgets ranging from 50K to multimillion-dollar efforts.
• Coordinate vendors and internal services delivering applications and hardware.
• Provide project status updates and executive-level presentations.
• Coach and mentor project team members and other PMs.
• Ensure on-time, on-scope, and on-budget delivery.
• Document plans and artifacts in Workfront.

Skills

Project leadership

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Agile & Waterfall

Tools

Workfront

Job description

A Brief Overview

The role is directly responsible for leading the project scope definition, kickoff, design, construct, test, deployment and closing stages of multiple medium to large scale healthcare information technology projects. Adhering to all PMI project management methodologies, including Waterfall and or Agile.

What You Will Do

• Leads multiple IT&S projects and programs with:
  • Complex objectives and activities
  • Teams comprised of 20 – 30+, matrixed, resources from multi-areas of an organization
  • Budgets ranging from $50K to multimillion dollar efforts
  • Vendors providing services, applications, hardware, and other components
  • Internal services and development teams working on various efforts throughout the system
• Manages and builds customer relationships at the Clinical Chair, Director, and Vice President, Senior Vice President, and Senior Executive level.
• Maintains updated knowledge of and uses different project management methodologies, tools, and approaches.
• Maintains expertise in 2 - 3 project disciplines (e.g., process workflow documentation & redesign, system testing).
• Leads vendors through contracting process and provides input to Senior Leadership on negotiation points.
• Plans and scopes all project phases and components.
• Prepares and delivers both written and oral presentations to provide overview of project status, issues and the like.
• Coaches and mentors project team members and other project managers.
• Ensures that projects are delivered on time, on scope and on budget.
• Responsible for all project reporting and KPIs to all project sponsors.
• Creates and documents all needed project plans and artifacts in Workfront, the project management tool that University Hospitals utilizes.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.