Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Duration: 3 Months

Job Description

• Communicates effectively with clients, colleagues, vendors, and organizational administration.
• Supervises and motivates large numbers of project team members, negotiates with vendors, and coaches and mentors project management staff.
• Manages 15 to 26 project staff members.
• A Principal Project Manager also leads and manages large complex projects or a series of projects with significant risks.
• Works with Executive Sponsors and Program Managers to define project scopes, resolve critical issues, establish and monitor appropriate project budgets, and ensure adherence to organizational and project management practices, standards, and policies.
• Collaborates with HR and IT Resource Managers to identify and select project personnel; communicates the project vision and individual roles to team members; and manages resources, vendors, and all relevant parties.
• Monitors project progress, resolves associated issues and mitigates risks, and ensures that stakeholders remain informed and actively involved in the project’s timely completion.
• Tracks aggregate resource hours and expenses for project portfolio; implements project budgetary controls when necessary; and monitors compliance at portfolio level.
• Monitors the aggregate project budget and reconciles shortages and overages in individual budgets.
• Negotiates contracts and manages vendor relationships relative to project portfolio.
• Directs the creation and dissemination of project reports/metrics.
• Manages, coaches, and mentors team members.
• Promotes the use of Project Management Best Practices throughout and recommends improvements and modifications in tools and techniques.
• Understand and comply with all enterprise and IS departmental information security policies, procedures, and standards.
• Support the integration of information security in the development, design, and implementation of Hospital Technology Resources that process, transmit, or store information.
• Support all compliance activities related to state, federal regulatory requirements, healthcare accreditation standards, and all other applicable regulations that govern the use and disclosure of patient, financial, or other confidential information.

• Facilitating business discussions with senior leaders
• Helping define project direction when the problem or solution is not fully clear
• Guiding stakeholders toward decisions and alignment

• Over fifteen (15) years of solid experience as project manager in medium to large complex projects with increasing responsibilities.
• Expertise in business or technology domain alongside comprehensive knowledge of and expertise in project management methodology, tools, and practices.
• Advanced skills in collaborative facilitation and coordination of teams and customers on complex projects.
• Advanced proficiency in project planning and management, budgeting, consensus building, and issues resolution.
• Advanced proficiency in reviewing and creating detailed documentation and reports relevant to the management and implementation of project management cycle.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, healthcare IT, or related field.

• Advance education or graduate degree in related field (i.e., MBA, MHA, RRA) or additional discipline.

• PMI member in good standing.
• PMP certified.

• Additional certification in a specialized business domain or technical domain associated with Principal PM role.