United States onlyThe Sr. Project Manager will plan, direct, and coordinate project activities to ensure project and team objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
Coordinates cross-functional projects and assumes a leadership role in shaping priorities, setting and tracking schedules, driving issue resolution, and ensuring quality.
Requires strong Project Management skills, proven experience with applying Agile methodologies in software development, direct experience in leading the software development lifecycle, and a proven experience managing key customer relationships and project details.
At GHX we believe in fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of experiences, perspectives, and skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensures the timely and accurate delivery of contract deliverables across multiple projects.
- Manages complex Data Services installations to include both domestic and international services.
- Lead and facilitate project “kick off“ sessions to review assumptions and expectations, gather requirements, educate internal stakeholders on products and services, etc.
- Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones and required tasks, providing early visibility to schedules/milestones that are at risk. Provides supportive analysis that impacts the use of resources.
- Builds detailed project plans and schedules through the creation (updating) of templates for products across all processes, independently managing day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple, large-scale projects.
- Directs and coordinates activities for project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule. Can influence across the project scope without authority. Ability to work through ambiguous situations and guide to tactical resolutions and go forward action plans.
- Maintains an overall program-level risk and issue log. Facilitates risk mitigation and issue resolution across functional managers and sponsors to minimize impact to project schedule and internal stakeholder satisfaction. Aligns to strategic needs of the client, as well as best practice experiences.
- Conducts regularly scheduled meetings with stakeholders that continue to progress the project per charter / guidelines formulated at project initiation.
- Understands the business fundamentals, provides routine updates to senior leadership (both client and GHX) on assigned projects, in the form of routine project check in meetings, and/or formal project readouts. Areas needing escalation are provided and resolved through mutual senior management teams.
- Coordinates and manages team members in completing defined deliverables and key project artifacts to document the project.
- Provides leadership, mentoring, and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle. Holds team members accountable to commitments and aligns to overall project status reporting/escalation transparently.
- Assists the teams with project best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.
- Identifies and facilitates opportunities for process improvement both in terms of project management tools and processes.
- Maintains product knowledge to increase efficiency in delivery of products.
- Ability to contribute different thoughts, ideas and viewpoints that lead to greater innovation on projects and cross-functional collaborative efforts.
Key Skills/Competencies
- ERP/MMIS experience required (or equivalent)
Required Education, Certifications, and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in project leadership roles
- 5+ years of experience with software development, implementation or integration projects either in a leadership role or as a major team contributor.
- IT Project Management using SDLC or Agile scrum approach
- Advanced knowledge of project management methods and Lifecycle Management
- Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program as required by healthcare organizations credentialing guidelines.
- Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program as required by healthcare organizations credentialing guidelines.
- Initiate change management reviews and contract modifications and identify requirements for product and IT development.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and organizational skills.
- Superior ability to multi-task.
- Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of solutions
- Well-developed interpersonal skills in a customer-facing role.
- Solid analytical and qualitative reasoning skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment, yet be self-directed, proactive, and action oriented.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment in complex situations and function independently with initiative, creativity, and attention to detail.
- Ability to analyze and diagnose project performance problems and execute effective corrective actions.
- Experience managing large clinical projects that are multi-threaded, including teams more than 8 team members.
- Healthcare Information Technology or Operational leadership experience.
- Experience with integration technologies (HL7, FHIR etc).
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
- We are looking for someone who is proficient in the role requirements, but who also brings a unique perspective of thought to our team. GHX encourages all eligible candidates to apply and is dedicated to providing equal opportunities for qualified applicants.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP
- Six Sigma
- Scrum
- Agile
- BPMN
Estimated salary range: $98,300 - $130,500
The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX’s salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/
GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.
GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.
It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.
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Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.
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