Senior Project Manager - Healthcare

Senior Project Manager – Healthcare

Location:

Birmingham, AL

Reports to:

Director of Project Management

Employment Type:

Full-time, salaried

Compensation:
Competitive salary + performance-based bonus + benefits

About Creature

Creature is a vertically integrated Design–Manufacture–Construct (DMC) company built to eliminate the inefficiencies of traditional construction. We align design, preconstruction, field operations, and self-perform trades into one system so projects move faster, cleaner, and with greater reliability.

Own the health of Creature's healthcare project portfolio — not any single job, but the program of jobs and the people running them. This role exists so clients across the healthcare portfolio get the same discipline and access no matter which PM is assigned, and so PMs get developed into that level of ownership instead of left to find it alone.

Own total program performance — safety, schedule, quality, financial outcomes, and client standing — across every project in Creature's healthcare portfolio, while developing the PMs who run those projects into leaders who don't need this seat standing over them.

1) Program Execution & Portfolio Leadership

Lead delivery across every active healthcare project without running any one of them directly. Hold each PM accountable for their own schedule, scope, and execution, and catch the portfolio-level pattern — the risk repeating across three jobs that looks like noise on any single one — before it becomes a program problem.

2) Program-Level Financial Ownership

Own gross margin and forecasting in aggregate across the healthcare program. Each PM owns their project's numbers directly; this seat owns the roll-up, protects margin decisions that cross project lines — shared crews, shared subs, shared risk — and flags portfolio drift before it shows up in a single monthly report.

3) Client Relationship & Contract Authority

Serve as the senior point of accountability for Creature's healthcare client relationships. PMs run the day-to-day; this seat is who the client calls when something needs to move faster than one project's chain of command, and the person who ensures every contract in the program actually protects the margin it was written to protect.

4) PM Development & Bench Building

Lead, coach, and hold accountable every PM assigned to the healthcare program. Build a bench of PMs capable of running a healthcare client relationship and contract independently — this accountability, more than any other, is what separates this seat from a PM carrying a heavier project load.

5) Risk, Compliance & Cross-Functional Alignment

Drive proactive risk management and compliance — safety, ICRA, schedule — across the healthcare portfolio. Serve as the connective tissue between Design, Precon, and Field for healthcare work, and surface systemic issues to the Director of Project Management before they surface as a client complaint.

• Every PM in the program runs their project with less oversight every quarter, not more
• Portfolio-level financial risk is caught before it appears in any single project's report
• Healthcare clients experience the same standard of access and discipline regardless of which PM is assigned
• The Director of Project Management gets program-level truth without having to ask for it

• Ownership over Coordination — Owns the program's outcomes, not just its people's tasks
• Accomplishment over Activity — Measured by portfolio results, not meeting attendance
• Compelling Conscientiousness — Catches the pattern across projects that no single PM can see from inside their own job
• Mastery of Communication — Keeps PMs, clients, and the Director of…