Functional Project Manager

Title: Functional Project Manager (Healthcare)
Location: Remote
Contract Type-W2
Experience: 8 years

Role Summary

Were looking for a Functional Project Manager with strong healthcare domain experience to lead business-driven projects across clinical operational and revenue-cycle teams. This role focuses on requirements workflow optimization stakeholder management UAT go-live readiness and delivery governance while partnering with IT vendors and clinical SMEs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery end-to-end: scope timeline budget risks dependencies and outcomes.
• Run discovery sessions with stakeholders (clinical billing compliance IT) and document BRD/FRD process flows and user stories.
• Understand and map healthcare workflows (patient access scheduling clinical documentation orders results claims authorizations etc.).
• Drive governance: RAID log change control communication plan steering committee updates and weekly status reporting.
• Coordinate UAT with clinical/business users: test planning defect triage and sign-off.
• Manage go-live planning: cutover checklists training coordination hypercare support and post-go-live stabilization.
• Ensure compliance alignment (HIPAA PHI handling audit requirements) in planning and execution.
• Coordinate across internal teams and vendors (EHR/EMR clearinghouse payer integrations reporting partners).
• Track metrics and adoption to ensure business value and process improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8 years of Project Management experience with healthcare domain projects.
• Strong functional skills in requirements gathering documentation and stakeholder management.
• Experience delivering projects involving EHR/EMR workflows and/or revenue cycle operations.
• Strong UAT leadership experience and ability to drive business sign-offs.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work with clinicians operations compliance and IT.
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum and/or Waterfall (hybrid experience preferred).

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Experience with systems like Epic Cerner/Oracle Health Meditech eClinicalWorks or similar.
• Healthcare integrations knowledge: HL7 FHIR interfaces lab systems scheduling claims/eligibility.
• Tools: Jira Confluence MS Project Smartsheet Azure DevOps SharePoint.
• Certifications: PMP CSM/PSM ITIL (plus).

Common Healthcare Project Examples

• EHR enhancements clinical workflow redesign templates/order sets updates
• Patient portal rollout or optimization
• Scheduling/patient access improvements
• Revenue cycle initiatives (claims denials authorizations coding workflow)
• Compliance/audit readiness projects and reporting dashboards

Deliverables

• Project charter plan stakeholder register communication plan
• BRD/FRD workflow diagrams user stories & acceptance criteria
• RAID log change requests weekly status exec dashboards
• UAT plan test coordination defect tracking go-live checklist training plan.