The Project Manager Senior leads and manages the development, implementation, and coordination for a variety of operational and strategic projects. This role serves as a project management consultant to advise, coordinate, and oversee the work of operational leaders. This job coordinates activities with various internal and external consultants and stakeholders.
Essential Job Function
- Strategic planning: Develops the overall approach for the project(s), its significant time frames, and the definition of its major deliverables to address and meet the desired goals and outcomes. Defines scope, and deliverables, creating a comprehensive project plan, and aligning it with the company's strategic vision.
- Team Leadership: Possess the ability to motivate and guide teams, build consensus, and make informed decisions
- Budget Management: Monitors project budgets, tracking project expenses for equipment, supplies, and contracted services, while working closely with the finance department to ensure financial compliance and cost-efficient project execution. Identifies cost variances and takes corrective actions to stay within budget constraints.
- Communication management: Communicates and strategizes with project sponsors to formulate meeting agendas. Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey information to diverse stakeholders
- Facilitates communications and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders, including hospital departments, physicians, vendors, and regulatory agencies, to address project-related concerns, obtain necessary approvals.
- Regularly creates and presents project reports, including status updates, performance metrics, and key insights to key stakeholders, including senior leadership, team members, and clients.
- Performance monitoring: Participates in review with the project and portfolio sponsors and stakeholders to identify organic or specific project needs and changes and directs appropriate approaches to address. Tracks project metrics, analyzes performance data to identify areas for improvement.
- Risk & Issue Management: Identifies potential risks and develops mitigation strategies to address them proactively.
- Identifies and addresses issues, resolves competing priorities and makes necessary adjustments to the plan. Escalates conflicts and issues when appropriate.
- Resource allocation: Optimizes resource utilization across projects working in partnership with the assigned portfolio manager, including budget management and personnel allocation.
- Stakeholder engagement: Acts as an advisor and builds and maintains relationships across the wider stakeholder community. Interacts with project sponsors to inform, alert, negotiate, and maintain a continuing good relationship and shared vision for the program outcome.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Monitors and coordinates dependencies across the projects in the portfolio and works seamlessly with diverse teams from different departments to ensure on-time delivery.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
- Required: Bachelor's Degree
Experience
- Required: 5 -8 years in project management
Licensure/Certification/Listing
- Required: Project Management Institute Certification (PMP) or Agile Certified Professional (Certified Scrum Master) or Scaled Agile Certified Professional
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Cone Health
Apr 07, 2026