Sr Director of the Project Management Office PMO

Full-time, 40 Hours/week

Days

Onsite Akron, OH

Summary:

The Sr Director of the Project Management office (PMO) provides enterprise leadership for the organization's portfolio of strategic, technology, clinical, operational, and business transformation initiatives. The Sr. Director is responsible for establishing and operating an enterprise PMO that ensures major initiatives are strategically aligned, appropriately prioritized, governed, resources, financially managed, and delivered with measurable outcomes. The Sr Director serves as a strategic partner to the CDIO, CEO council, leadership team, clinical leadership, and business leaders, providing transparency into the organization's project portfolio, ISD budget, and strategic initiatives projects . The Sr. Director partners with leadership throughout the organization to constantly promote and develop an ISD culture in support of the Hospital Mission, Vision, and Values.

Responsibilities:

1. Establish and lead an enterprise project and portfolio management framework, maintaining an enterprise-wide portfolio of strategic initiatives and investments.

2. Develop portfolio prioritization methodologies based on strategic value, patient impact, financial return, risk, regulatory requirements, and organizational capacity.

3. Provide executive leadership with a consolidated view of project status, risks, dependencies, resource requirements, costs, expected benefits, and overall portfolio performance.

4. Identify competing initiatives, critical skill gaps, and resource conflicts or constraints, and facilitate executive-level decisions and resolution.

5. Provide PMO governance for enterprise artificial intelligence and digital transformation initiatives, translating complex project information into concise executive-level decisions and recommendations.

6. Lead the governance and delivery of large-scale implementations, including ERP, EHR optimization, artificial intelligence, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and revenue cycle programs.

7. Monitor business cases, expected return on investment, benefits realization, and total cost of ownership to ensure initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

8. Develop and manage project portfolio budgets and forecasts, ensuring appropriate financial planning, oversight, and accountability.

9. Determine and oversee the appropriate use of internal resources, consultants, vendors, and implementation partners to support portfolio and project delivery.

10. Meet with representatives of manufacturers, vendors, and professional and business organizations to solicit cooperation, evaluate needs, and resolve problems.

11. Lead and develop PMO managers and related professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, and measurable outcomes.

12. Perform other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

• Proven Leadership experience and capability in a variety of areas in IS/IT (applications, infrastructure, project management, customer service etc.)
• Experience negotiating and evaluating legal contracts with vendors, contractors and others is required
• Experience in developing strategies and plans
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and make sound decisions in emergency situations.
• Flexible, open-minded, and tolerant with the motivation to effectively resolve and prioritize complex ethical, strategic, and operational problems.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills required.
• Systems thinker who can organize and lead to consistently deliver on time and within budget.
• An analytical mind capable for "out-of-the-box" thinking to solve problems
• Ability to manage silos, confront issues and work toward to collaborative solutions.
• Understanding of major trends in healthcare.
• Consistently and independently maintains working knowledge of leading IT solutions and methodologies.
• Positive and can embrace the ambiguity inherent with the position.
• Outstanding organization and leadership abilities

Education and Experience

1. Education: Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred

2. Licensure: NA

3. Certification: Certification specific to industry (i.e., PMP, CPHIMSS,) is preferred.

4. Years of relevant experience: Minimum of ten (10) years' experience in Information Services/Information Technology field

5. Years of supervisory experience: Minimum of ten (10) years' experience in and management role

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Onsite