Job Description
Job Description
Optomi, in partnership with a leading healthcare organization is looking for a Senior Project Manager to support complex, clinically focused healthcare IT initiatives. This role sits at the top end of the PM career ladder and plays a critical role in delivering high-visibility Epic and non-Epic projects across hospitals, clinics, and inpatient and outpatient departments.
What the right candidate will enjoy!
- Owning high impact, clinically focused IT projects across surgical, lab, radiology, pharmacy, telemed, and other care environments.
- Working directly with physicians, nursing leadership, operations, and technical teams to redesign and optimize clinical workflows.
- Leading Epic upgrades, module enhancements, and workflow optimizations rather than constant greenfield implementations.
- Operating in a structured PMO environment that values process discipline, templates, and consistent delivery.
- Playing a visible, trusted role within a large pediatric healthcare system where projects directly impact patient care.
Responsibilities of the right candidate:
- Lead and deliver complex healthcare IT projects across clinical departments, ensuring scope, timeline, and quality expectations are met.
- Manage Epic workflow updates, configuration changes, optimizations, and module upgrades across inpatient, ambulatory, revenue cycle, OR, and ancillary teams.
- Oversee integrations for lab instruments, medical devices, and system interfaces across clinical environments.
- Partner with clinical and operational stakeholders to gather requirements, redesign workflows, and drive adoption while managing resistance to change.
- Apply PMO Playbook and PMBOK best practices to maintain project charters, schedules, risks/issues, change control, and close-out documentation.
- Maintain accurate project tracking and reporting within PPM and ServiceNow tools.
- Proactively identify risks, escalate issues, and guide teams through resolution paths.
- Manage multiple high-visibility initiatives simultaneously while maintaining consistent process adherence.
- Support stakeholder management, portfolio planning, and internal PMO improvement initiatives.
- Mentor junior PMs and reinforce standardized delivery practices across the organization.
Experience of the right candidate:
- 10+ years of experience managing IT projects end-to-end within a healthcare environment.
- 7+ years of experience working with EHR systems, including 5+ years supporting Epic application modules.
- Strong background managing clinical healthcare IT projects across multiple service lines.
- 5+ years working within a formal PMO using standardized processes and templates.
- Proven experience delivering projects using Waterfall methodologies; Agile experience is a plus.
- PMP certification required.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage clinicians, executives, and technical teams.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and maintain delivery discipline in a fast-paced environment.
- Hybrid availability with on-site presence Tuesday/Wednesday required.
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