IT Project Manager Sr

GENERAL SUMMARY:  Responsible for leading the overall planning, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of medium and large and/or complex projects typically spanning multiple operating units, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.  Develops, manages, and monitors plans, resources, and budgets. Responsible for achieving agreed upon deliverables, within budget and established timelines, and successful completion of project outcomes, targeted goals, and objectives. Provides change leadership and process improvement expertise and guidance to executive sponsors and the project team. Develops communication strategies and executes said plans across the enterprise. Develops effective internal relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders, management, executive leadership, and several multi-functional and geographically dispersed work teams by providing direction, assistance, and coordination.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:  

1. Responsible for managing all aspects of medium and large, complex projects, typically spanning multiple operating units and/or locations.
2. Works with all areas affected by the project including end users, project sponsors and senior leadership.
3. Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, realization schedules and status reports. Identifies and finalizes project scope and objectives, defines team member roles, activities, and functional responsibilities. Identifies and documents detailed tasks and timeline. Facilitates alignment of executive sponsor and business owner across all elements of project definition.
4. Provides leadership, guidance and serves as a resource in deploying, implementing, and adhering to project management methodology and techniques, including advanced elements of project methodology, such as change leadership, process improvement and risk management. Directs and assures follow-up of action items. Monitors project progress and provides problem resolution and troubleshooting to ensure project deliverables are met and adhere to established methodology.
5. Provides project status updates through the coordination and preparation of detailed statistical reports to key stakeholders, management, and leadership. Compiles and analyzes data; prepares written summaries and presentations which address project scope, timetable, and expected deliverables. Develops, monitors, and manages project budget (i.e., analysis, reconciliation, forecasting, expenditure authorization, resource requirements, value management, tracking and reporting) as required by PMO Operations.
6. Plans cross organization team members' work and assigns tasks and monitors progress, generally in a matrix work environment.
7. Manages problem resolution and risk mitigation. Provides analytical and practical guidance to project team members and lower-level project managers and coordinators.
8. Serves as a knowledge resource providing a thorough understanding of strategic issues and tactical initiatives and ensuring processes, workforce, technology, and culture factors are addressed implementation plan. Makes recommendations that provide practical options and solutions while considering the impact on processes, workforce, technology, and culture.
9. Ensures customers are actively engaged throughout the project life cycle.  Works with customers to ensure business workflows, training and communication plans are completed.  Provides appropriate tools, training, guidance, and necessary resources to resolve problems, avert potential risks and maintain customer engagement. 
10. Keeps stakeholders, business sponsors, PMO leadership and project teams apprised through routine communications, reports, and status meetings to ensure project plans and deliverables are met; potential risks are identified and resolved, and customer expectations are reached.
11. Compares and evaluates various courses of action and make independent decisions on matters of significance within the scope of their responsibilities.
12. Responsible for ensuring vendor and consultant agreements are consistent with the objectives, scope, and budget of the project, working with Supply Chain, Vendor Management, IT and Corporate Finance, and other stakeholders. Manages completion of vendor and consultant deliverables in alignment with signed agreements.
13. Conducts post project analysis. Meets with business owners, stakeholders, and IT services lines to conduct project closure activities.  Prepares transition to operations, outstanding issues and lessons learned documentation.  Closes out project related tracking systems and transition project over to operational status if needed.

STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS:

• Completion of a Master’s degree in in Business, Healthcare, Computer Science or related field or a Bachelor's degree with 5 years of Information Technology or Healthcare experience.
• Minimum 7 years of project management experience with managing progressively complex projects that span multiple operating units; healthcare experience preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise and skills in the application of appropriate project management methodology. Experience with advanced project management techniques, such as change leadership, process improvement and risk management preferred.
• Relevant industry standard certification in Project Management Professional (PMP) required. Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification preferred; PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Certification preferred. Finance, Lean, Six Sigma Black Belt, ITIL, Agile, Scrum Master, Healthcare Management Engineering or equivalent experience preferred.

 

Other Qualifications: 

 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Autonomous decision making.
• Work group facilitation skills.
• High level of influence skills.
• Considerable knowledge of and experience with change control, risk management, project planning, team management, finance, budgeting, and scheduling.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. Ability to perform research, apply perspective and diligence to completely understand the relevant project issues.
• Must be capable of handling multiple projects/assignments simultaneously and possess the ability to adapt to frequent changes in priorities.
• Ability to communicate with non-technical leaders and business owners providing a clear understanding of appropriate technology solutions to support and enhance business needs.
• Knowledge of multiple technologies and experience with system-wide applications and systems in an integrated work environment.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and customer services skills. Ability to develop/maintain effective collaborative relationships and partnerships with leaders, stakeholders, and decision makers. Ability to mentor and coach other team members.
• Excellent facilitation skills and ability to influence outcomes by working with colleagues at all organizational levels.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment. Strong group (both onsite and remote) process skills required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain strong understanding about how the organization functions and the role of the PMO. Ability to recognize the impact of individual and team performance beyond the PMO. 
• Demonstrate advanced proficiency in current Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook) with the capability to master company specific software and databases and other business software.

* Beaumont Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.