Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Location: Cleveland, OH Model: Onsite Job Type: Full time / Contract

This job posting is for an existing, active vacancy and we are seeking a Senior Project Manager with strong project leadership, technical fluency, and the ability to navigate complex healthcare environments. The role requires exceptional communication, proactive risk management, and the ability to influence diverse stakeholders across a matrixed organization.

Summary: Senior Project Manager, Health Systems is responsible for leading complex technology modernization and digital transformation projects across clinical, operational, and enterprise environments. This role drives high-impact initiatives that strengthen system capabilities, streamline workflows, modernize legacy platforms, and advance the organization's long-term digital strategy. The individual in this role partners with leaders and subject-matter experts across clinical, operational, business, and IT domains to define project goals, build structured project plans, coordinate cross-functional workstreams, and ensure that initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable value. They serve as a connector between strategy, technology, and operational executiontranslating organizational priorities into actionable project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Strategic Technology Modernization Projects
• Manage end-to-end delivery of initiatives such as platform modernization, cloud migrations, interoperability improvements, workflow optimization, or enterprise application enhancements
• Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope definition, timelines, milestone management, resource coordination, and budget oversight
• Drive Strategy Execution
• Translate organizational digital and modernization strategies into structured workstreams and executable project activities
• Ensure that project outcomes support broader enterprise, clinical, and business objectives
• Coordinate Cross-Functional Stakeholders
• Collaborate with clinical, operational, business, and IT teams to ensure that technology solutions support real-world workflows and requirements
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders with differing perspectives and priorities
• Oversee Risk, Issues, and Change Management
• Identify risks, dependencies, and potential bottlenecks early; develop mitigation strategies; escalate issues when needed
• Lead change management, communication plans, readiness activities, and adoption efforts
• Provide Executive-Level Reporting
• Deliver clear and concise updates to leadership on project progress, risks, outcomes, timelines, and strategic alignment
• Prepare dashboards, status reports, and executive summaries that support decision-making
• Ensure High-Quality Delivery
• Oversee testing, validation, deployment, and transition-to-operations activities
• Ensure solutions meet standards for performance, usability, reliability, and compliance
• Promote Continuous Improvement
• Evaluate project performance using metrics, feedback, and retrospective insights
• Identify opportunities to optimize processes, enhance capabilities, and improve future project execution
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned including documentation, facilitation, assessments, and support of enterprise transformation programs
• Identify opportunities to expand the value of existing digital platforms and modernization efforts, collaborating with leaders to prioritize high-impact initiatives
• Support strategic planning efforts by assessing emerging technology trends and their potential application across clinical, operational, and enterprise domains

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field
• An additional 6-8 years of progressively responsible IT project or program management experience may substitute for a degree
• 7-10 years of experience managing complex IT, digital transformation, or modernization projects, preferably in healthcare
• 3+ years leading cross-functional teams or managing multi-workstream programs in a matrixed environment
• Demonstrated success driving large-scale technology initiatives from strategy through implementation, with measurable operational or clinical impact
• Proven ability to work effectively with clinical, operational, business, and technical stakeholders
• Experience with healthcare applications and platforms (e.g., Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health, Meditech, or other enterprise access/clinical/business systems)

Preferred certifications: PMP (Project Management Professional), PMI?ACP, PMI?PBA, or PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, TOGAF or SAFe (for architecture/Agile environments)

Salary/Rate: Fulltime: The pay range for this role is *** - *** per annum including any bonuses or variable pay. *** also offers benefits like medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance and paid time off (including holidays, parental leave, and sick leave, as required by law). Ask our recruiters for more details on our Benefits package. The exact offer terms will depend on the skill level, educational qualifications, experience and location of the candidate Contract: ***/HR - ***/HR.