IT Project Manager (Health-Care)

General Purpose Of The Job:

This position works in a SAFe Agile environment and has responsibility for delivering medium to high complexity projects utilizing the SAFe Agile delivery framework . The main scope work for the Project Manager is to manage and support the Physician Experience IT Team to a successful delivery of the agreed project scope. This includes driving the project and tracking progress via multiple processes including: 

•          Creation of and tracking against schedule

•          Managing risks and issues

•          Managing creation and tracking of budget

•          Communicating effectively to IT and business leadership

•          Appropriate escalation of issues with leadership

•          Creation of all applicable project artifacts

•          Managing projects with geographically diverse teams

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: 

The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all-inclusive.

•          Facilitates the team to successfully plan and execute deliverables using Agile techniques.

•          Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution, and delivery of initiatives performed by agile team.

•          Leads, plans, schedules, tracks, and manages project deliverables, goals, and milestones; adjusts project plans and/or resources to meet changing needs and requirements

o   Assesses risks and creates strategies for risk mitigation and project contingency planning

o   Designs and maintains technical and project documentation

o   Identifies and resolves project issues; ensures appropriate communication to project stakeholders

o   Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate

•          Leads/participates in quarterly Program Increment planning sessions

•          Support cross-team and cross-functional coordination

•          Provides relevant metrics to gauge team progress with a continual focus on improvement

•          Manages project scope and the change control process as appropriate

•          Delivers/coordinates communication with all areas of the enterprise that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort being managed

•          Monitors, reviews, and/or appropriately escalates functional, quality, and timeline issues

•          Develops and executes procurement management plan in association with Procurement and the vendor management plan

•          Provides project forecasting of project duration, project performance to date, overall project cost, priorities, milestones, capacity

•          Develops financial management plan to ensure projects are correlated to the budgets that fund them, financial information is transparent and budget, actual spend and variance calculations are tracked and communicated

•          Implements project and quality assurance reviews in accordance with IT guidelines to ensure profitable and successful execution

•          Ensures project plans and all project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored

•          Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations

•          Participates in identifying and prioritizing opportunities for utilizing IT to achieve the goals of the enterprise

•          Keeps track of lessons learned during the life of the project and facilitates a discussion/review at the end of project as part of closing the project out

•          Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned including but not limited to:

o   Holds/attends team meetings, phone conferences, and training as needed

o   Knows, understands, and follows teammate guidelines, employment policies, and department or company procedures

•           Travels up to 25%