[Remote] Senior Healthcare IT Project Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gulf Coast Automation Group is a premier clinical healthcare client seeking a Senior Healthcare IT Project Manager. This full-time, remote role involves managing multiple healthcare IT projects, mentoring junior project managers, and driving strategic enterprise initiatives in complex hospital systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple concurrent projects from initiation through closure
- Define project scope, objectives, milestones, budgets, and success metrics with sponsors and stakeholders
- Establish and facilitate project governance to ensure leadership alignment and issue resolution
- Act as a liaison between IT and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic goals
- Develop project plans, communication plans, schedules, and budgets using standard PM tools
- Estimate, plan, and manage project costs and resources to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery
- Identify project dependencies, critical paths, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Proactively manage scope, schedule, and resource changes, escalating when necessary
- Facilitate regular project meetings and provide clear, actionable status reporting
- Track and report project progress, risks, and next steps to senior leadership
- Resolve issues and conflicts or escalate appropriately
- Collaborate with organizational performance improvement teams
- Coach, mentor, and motivate project team members and contractors
- Conduct lessons learned sessions and contribute to continuous improvement and PM best practices
- Support the development and maintenance of project management standards, tools, and processes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Healthcare, or a related field
- 6+ years of hands-on project management experience
- Strong working knowledge of formal project management methodologies
- PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma certification (required within one year of hire, if not already obtained)
- Demonstrated experience leveraging Lean process improvement methodologies
- Advanced organizational, analytical, and communication skills
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficiency with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, Outlook) and project management software
- Ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of an organization
- Experience mentoring, coaching, or guiding junior project managers
- Flexibility to occasionally work outside normal business hours to meet project deadlines
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off
- Great benefits, work life balance and company culture
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