Project Manager
Description
The Project Manager will plan, direct, and coordinate project activities to ensure project and team objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
Coordinates cross-functional projects and assumes a leadership role in shaping priorities, setting and tracking schedules, driving issue resolution, and ensuring quality.
Requires strong Project Management skills and strategic thinking.
Principal duties and responsibilities:
- Leads and facilitates /project “kick off “session to review assumptions and expectations, gather requirements, educate internal stakeholders on product and services, etc.
- Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones and required tasks, providing early visibility to schedules/milestones that are at risk. Provides supportive analysis that impacts the use of resources.
- Builds detailed project plans and schedules through creation (updating) of templates for products across all processes, independently managing day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple or large scale projects.
- Directs and coordinates activities for project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule. Can influence without authority.
- Maintains an overall program level risk and issue log. Facilitates risk mitigation and issue resolution across functional managers and sponsors to minimize impact to project schedule and internal stakeholder satisfaction. Asks good strategic questions.
- Conducts regularly scheduled meetings with stakeholders
- Understands the business fundamentals, with the ability to interface with Vendormate Business unit senior leadership on assigned projects.
- Assists team members in completing defined deliverables and in producing key project artifacts to document the project.
- Provides leadership, mentoring, and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle. Holds team members accountable to commitments.
- Assists the teams with project best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.
- Identifies and facilitates opportunities for process improvement both in terms of project management tools and processes.
- Maintains product knowledge to increase efficiency in delivery of products.
Preferred Skills
- PMP Certification.
- Experience managing projects that are multi-threaded, including teams in excess of 5 team members, and representing greater than $100,000 in revenue or budget.
- Healthcare industry experience.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 or more years of experience in project leadership roles. If a PMP certification is not held, must possess all pre-requisites required by PMI to obtain a PMP certification.
- Advanced knowledge of project management methods and processes with demonstrated success in delivering complex project scope on time and within budget.
- Excellent facilitation, communication and organizational skills.
- Superior ability to multi-task.
- Advanced MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills including experience in a customer-facing role.
- Solid analytical and qualitative reasoning skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment, yet be self-directed, proactive, and action-oriented.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment in complex situations and function independently with initiative, creativity and attention to detail.
- Ability to analyze and diagnose project performance problems and execute effective corrective actions.
Estimated salary range: $70,000 - $85,000
The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX’s salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/
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GHX: It’s the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.
GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe — who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.
It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce – not shift – the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 800 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Louisville, Colorado, just outside of Denver, with additional offices in Europe, Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia and Omaha, Nebraska.
Disclaimer:
GHX provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. GHX complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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