Community Health Systems (CHS) is a leading healthcare provider operating numerous facilities across the United States. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to independently manage multiple projects involving Oracle Health EHR, focusing on technical project management and collaboration with various teams to ensure successful project execution.
Responsibilities:
- This role requires a strong team leader who can coordinate efforts among multiple stakeholders. Successful implementation involves managing expectations of hospital executives and physicians, collaborating with local medical staff (nurses and technicians), engaging local technical resources (systems analysts and programmers), and working closely with vendor support teams
- Leads the full lifecycle of large-scale, cross-functional, or strategically significant projects from initiation through closure
- Collaborates with business units and functional teams to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria
- Manages detailed project plans, allocates resources, tracks milestones, and drives execution to ensure alignment with goals and deadlines
- Identifies and mitigates project risks and issues, escalating as needed to maintain project progress
- Serves as the primary liaison for project updates, communicating progress, risks, and decisions to sponsors and senior leadership
- Oversees the preparation of project documentation, including charters, reports, schedules, and communication plans
- Ensures adherence to project management standards, methodologies, and governance frameworks
- Provides mentorship and guidance, fostering professional growth and performance
- Drives continuous improvement by recommending and implementing enhancements to tools, templates, and delivery processes
- Manages change control processes and evaluates the organizational impact of proposed changes
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance
- Complies with all policies and standards
- This is a fully remote opportunity
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, or a related field required
- A combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- 5-7 years of experience managing projects of increasing complexity required
- Minimum of 5 years of dedicated experience with Acute Facility EHR Implementation preferred
- Oracle Health EHR platform expertise preferred
- Proven multi-facility design, planning, and execution background in a hospital setting
- Comprehensive structural knowledge of all phases of the EHR deployment lifecycle and ongoing support preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing project portfolios or enterprise-wide initiatives preferred
- Expert-level proficiency across the full Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Microsoft Project) preferred
- 3 years of experience utilizing Smartsheet for project tracking and centralization (preferred)
- Prior experience in healthcare, operations, or IT project environments preferred
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI preferred