Director of Project Management
Brentwood, TN - USA
Job Summary
Passionate driven people dedicated to making a difference in healthcare.
SpecialtyCare is the worlds leading provider of clinical services to hospitals. We partner with hospitals to drive sustain and accelerate high performance. We offer a portfolio of solutions that include neuromonitoring perfusion surgical assist autotransfusion minimally invasive surgical support and sterile processing. SpecialtyCares clinicians focus their efforts to improve operational efficiencies improve outcomes and maintain exceptional levels of satisfaction. We compete on results.
This position will build and operate a disciplined IT Project Management Office (PMO) that improves transparency accountability prioritization and delivery performance across the technology portfolio. The role will partner closely with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) IT leadership business stakeholders project managers business analysts application leaders infrastructure teams vendors and finance to ensure that projects are properly scoped resourced governed communicated and delivered on time and within budget. This leader will separate enhancement requests from true projects create consistent project intake and prioritization processes and establish practical standards that enable faster more predictable execution.
Establish and lead the IT Project Management Office including governance model intake process prioritization framework stage gates project standards templates tools and reporting cadence.
Partner with the CIO and IT leadership team to create visibility into the technology portfolio project roadmap resource capacity dependencies risks issues and executive-level decisions required.
Develop and manage a consistent project intake and demand management process that distinguishes enhancement requests operational work and formal projects requiring business case development scoping funding and prioritization.
Lead portfolio governance meetings and facilitate prioritization discussions with business and technology stakeholders to align project work with organizational strategy business value risk compliance and resource availability.
Oversee end-to-end project delivery for enterprise technology initiatives ensuring projects are planned monitored controlled and delivered according to approved scope schedule budget quality and success criteria.
Manage coach and develop IT project managers and business analysis resources including work assignment performance expectations methodology adoption skills development and delivery accountability.
Implement standard project management practices across waterfall agile and hybrid delivery approaches ensuring the selected methodology fits project complexity risk timeline and stakeholder needs.
Create and maintain executive dashboards portfolio reporting KPI reporting and status summaries that provide clear insight into project health milestones risks issues budget performance resource constraints and required decisions.
Establish practical project financial management discipline including budget planning spend tracking forecast updates capital and operating expense alignment vendor cost tracking and variance reporting.
Ensure project risks issues dependencies assumptions and decisions are actively documented escalated resolved and communicated through a consistent governance process.
Partner with business stakeholders and IT leaders to ensure requirements are clearly defined documented approved and translated into actionable delivery plans.
Support vendor selection vendor coordination contract alignment statement of work review and vendor performance monitoring for project-related engagements.
Drive change management communications stakeholder engagement testing readiness training coordination adoption planning and post-implementation review for major technology projects.
Conduct post-project evaluations and lessons learned sessions to measure outcomes capture improvement opportunities and strengthen future delivery performance.
Promote a culture of accountability transparency follow-through continuous improvement partnership and disciplined execution across IT and business teams.
Live the SpecialtyCare Values Integrity Teamwork Care & Improvement.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Education:
Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Business Administration Project Management Engineering or related field required.
Masters degree preferred.
Project Management Professional (PMP) Program Management Professional (PgMP) Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) PMI-ACP SAFe or similar project/program delivery certification preferred.
Experience:
Eight (8) or more years of progressive experience in IT project management program management portfolio management business analysis or technology delivery including at least three years leading project managers business analysts or cross-functional delivery teams.
Experience building or maturing a PMO implementing governance processes managing enterprise technology portfolios and reporting to executive leadership is strongly preferred.
Healthcare provider payor or regulated industry experience preferred.
Equivalent combination of education and experience acceptable.
Knowledge and Skills:
Strong understanding of project program and portfolio management practices including intake prioritization business case development scoping scheduling budgeting risk management issue management change control and benefits realization.
Demonstrated ability to establish governance and delivery standards that are practical scalable and adopted by business and technology teams.
Excellent executive communication skills including the ability to present complex project and portfolio information clearly concisely and actionably.
Ability to lead through influence manage competing priorities resolve ambiguity and align stakeholders across business functions and technology teams.
Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project Planner Teams SharePoint Smartsheet Azure DevOps Jira or similar platforms.
Strong financial acumen related to project budgeting forecasting resource planning vendor cost management and capital versus operating expense tracking.
Working knowledge of agile waterfall and hybrid delivery models with the ability to tailor methods based on project risk complexity and business need.
Strong analytical organizational facilitation problem-solving negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Ability to build trust create accountability coach team members and drive consistent follow-through in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications reporting tools executive dashboards and collaboration platforms.
Required Experience:
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