Project Manager

Project Manager

LHH Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Healthcare IT Project Manager to support enterprise technology intake, governance, prioritization, and project delivery within a hospital or health system environment.

This is a highly visible role that works closely with executive leadership, clinical stakeholders, business teams, and IT. The position will serve as a central point of contact for new technology-related project requests, helping evaluate business value, cost, risk, strategic alignment, and resource impact before initiatives move forward.

The role will also directly manage selected strategic technology projects from planning through implementation, operational readiness, and close.

Responsibilities include managing the intake and evaluation of new technology-related project requests, partnering with executives, clinicians, business stakeholders, and IT teams to assess opportunities, ensuring project requests include clear business needs, value propositions, cost estimates, risks, impacts, and expected benefits, facilitating project scoring, prioritization, and governance committee review, maintaining visibility across the demand lifecycle using ServiceNow, developing business cases and supporting ROI analysis, managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and benefits, leading business and technical requirements gathering, managing RAID logs and project escalations, coordinating testing, acceptance, change management, and operational readiness, developing transition plans, SOPs, downtime procedures, and communication plans, preparing and presenting project updates and governance materials to executive leadership, and ensuring projects remain aligned with enterprise strategy and business objectives.

Qualifications include 10+ years of healthcare IT project management experience, strong project management experience within a hospital or health system IT environment, experience managing strategic, business-critical technology projects from concept through implementation and close, experience with EPMO, portfolio governance, technology demand intake, or project prioritization, strong business process documentation and redesign experience, experience developing business cases, ROI analysis, and project financials, understanding of CapEx versus OpEx, strong requirements gathering and validation experience, experience managing RAID logs, risks, dependencies, and escalations, proven ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities, strong executive-level communication and presentation skills, ability to build relationships and gain buy-in across technical, business, and clinical teams, ServiceNow experience preferred, and PMP preferred; extensive relevant experience may be considered in lieu of certification.

The ideal candidate brings more than traditional project execution experience. This person should be comfortable operating at the front end of the technology portfolio, evaluating and prioritizing initiatives before funding and resources are committed, while also being able to take ownership of projects and drive them through successful delivery. Deep healthcare IT experience within a hospital or health system environment is required.