Community Health Systems is one of the nation's leading healthcare providers. The Senior Project Manager, Diagnostic Imaging is responsible for leading high-impact initiatives focused on a diagnostic imaging upgrade, managing the application lifecycle, and coordinating vendor engagements across multiple facilities.
Responsibilities:
- Leads the full lifecycle of large-scale, cross-functional, or strategically significant projects from initiation through closure
- Tracks the budget and POs and ensures Change Management is implemented when needed
- 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
- Adheres to the PMO policies and procedures as outlined by CHS
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance
- Complies with all policies and standards
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
- 7 + years of Project Management experience highly preferred
- Prior background working in Imaging and possessing an understand of that space highly preferred
- An understanding of image migration highly preferred
- A brief understanding of HL7 preferred
- Prior experience managing healthcare projects highly preferred
- Prior experience with vendor collaboration highly preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing project portfolios or enterprise-wide initiatives highly preferred
- Experience working with Change Healthcare applications highly preferred
- Prior experience in understanding of data flow, application integration, automation and end-to-end workflow processes highly preferred
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI highly preferred
- Prior experience utilizing Smart Sheets preferred