Project Manager – Health Care

Excellence through innovation and teamwork…

Summit Medical Group (SMG) is one of the largest and most highly regarded independent physician-owned and governed multispecialty medical groups in the nation, as well as the oldest and largest in New Jersey, with nearly 800 providers, 80+ coordinated medical specialties and services, over 2,400 employees, over 80 locations and an impressive track record of providing coordinated, patient-centric care.

Established in 1929 by pioneering physicians who recognized that a multidisciplinary approach would result in better, more effective and efficient care, SMG has experienced unprecedented growth and success and now handles more than 1.5 million patient visits annually. Our resources include comprehensive care centers that offer high quality urgent, primary and specialty care, diagnostic testing, and state-of- the-art technology.

As a member of our team, you’ll collaborate with distinguished colleagues, learn and grow–personally and professionally–while contributing to the health and wellness of our patients.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and/or optimizes PMO organizational structure, processes and policies.
• Overseas and directs the PMO in working with other department leaders (internal or client-facing) to define, scope, prioritize, and develop projects and programs.
• Support the management team by providing leadership and program management control on key initiatives that contemplate budget, scope, resource capacity, current resource allocations, schedule, governance, intake, change management, etc.
• Leads determination of overall work breakdown structure and resourcing for large and complex projects, including impact assessment on other projects; drives project execution, including overall ownership of project resources.
• Provide performance monitoring, information and reporting; help diagnose root cause of problems and mitigate risks.
• Ensure teams are taking corrective action as necessary to deliver complete scope, desired quality and timeliness of strategic programs and work stream projects.
• Provide logistical & decision support for governance structure, including metrics, dashboards, reporting delivery and monthly meeting cadence on strategy and operations reviews; overall performance results to defined and agreed upon measurements.
• Provide leadership visibility into risk analysis, remediation and downstream impacts on current or planned projects.
• Lead and direct efforts associated with the development of monthly, quarterly, etc. leadership reports and presentations of program related work, results, lessons learned, etc.
• Coordinate and provide coaching across multiple PMO Program Managers and / or Project Managers to help develop PMO team competencies and to ensure programs and/or projects are executed and delivered to documented standards.
• Creates and promotes a culture of collaboration, team-work and fun while delivering to or exceeding expectations.

General Job functions:

• Meet with project sponsors to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project.
• Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members’ individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals
• Meet budgetary objectives and adjust project constraints based on financial analysis
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with leadership as well as other staff members and project team

Requirements

• **(RN) Registered Nurse**
• PMP Certification preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

Experience:

• 3-5 years relevant project management and/or management experience from a Healthcare IT environment.
• Knowledge of project & program management methodologies, tools & techniques.
• Ability to creatively operationalize concepts and strategies that may be new and maturing in details and structure.
• Independent thinker and problem-solver; comfortable working in changing client organizational environment.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, organizational and communication skills.
• Strong ability to collaborate with peers to define business process issues, analyze operational efficiencies, implement creative solutions, and measure delivery results.
• Strong ability to positively point out risk and failures in face of dissenting views; willingness to take on challenges

Job Type: Full-time